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Yeah, but up until now the Egregious Ripoff Full of Crap edition of games at least included the fucking game.
But it's obvious what happened. Soyn thought this would be super mega big hit game and the modern audience that definitely exists was gonna eat it up because that's what the Sweet Babies and Anita told them. Now they're seeing the preorder numbers and they're hoping they can at least cut their losses by having some collectorfags buy them, never open them, then let them collect dust in a storage pod for years in the hopes that they'll accrue in value.
Or it's just further testing the waters for killing physical media. Can we still sell this bullshit without a physical copy of the game?
Nah they've been doing this shit for at least 12 years. Bethesda was early to the plate with Wolfenstein: The New Order "Panzerhund Edition", announced in March 2014, which "does not include a copy of the game." They actually had the balls to call this a feature in their marketing wank: "Keep your pre-order at your favourite retailer and we’ll send you these goodies separately—this way we can ship these boxes worldwide and you’re not stuck waiting for your game to come along with an oversized, expensively shipped box." Pioneers in bullshit, eh? This was the same company who also brought us "paid horse armor DLC." Trailblazers indeed.
You guys are overthinking this, most people who buy these overpriced LEs don't actually play video games, they're scalpers. Of course they don't care if the game is there or not, it's just consooming for the sake of consooming.
These overpriced box sets are weaksauce btw, back in the day you had much better stuff with your limited releases, not to mention the game itself.
They actually had the balls to call this a feature in their marketing wank: "Keep your pre-order at your favourite retailer and we’ll send you these goodies separately—this way we can ship these boxes worldwide and you’re not stuck waiting for your game to come along with an oversized, expensively shipped box."
Mass Effect Andromeda was the first time I saw this CE with no game bullshit, and the spin they gave it was 'maybe you bought the base game and loved it so much you want the CE but don't wanna buy the game again' which, if there was any truth to that, then why not just make the items in the CE available to buy, individually?
I could give a fuck about some gay statue or bottle opener, I just want the art book.
The statue is so fucking ugly. Looks like a cheap knockoff you buy to put somewhere high up and inaccessible so your guests can never see the fine details.
In the era of consumer 3d printers knocking off better looking shit... Charging 150 for something that looks like this... And they're proud of how it looks... The game better be epic. Cause this is mediocrity.
no, and also if you factory reset it will reset to 14.0 and pair again your disc drive if you have one. the ps5 is wide open now, its a time of when not if 14.0 will be jailbroken
The statue is so fucking ugly. Looks like a cheap knockoff you buy to put somewhere high up and inaccessible so your guests can never see the fine details.
In the era of consumer 3d printers knocking off better looking shit... Charging 150 for something that looks like this... And they're proud of how it looks... The game better be epic. Cause this is mediocrity.
We don't have pawn shops at my shithole country, unfortunately. I'll probably try to buy a used ps5 somewhere (which sucks anyways because even then they go for like 2 times the minimum wage here).
But I'm still enjoying the schadenfreude of these latest Sony disasters, so I can't be sad.
We don't have pawn shops at my shithole country, unfortunately. I'll probably try to buy a used ps5 somewhere (which sucks anyways because even then they go for like 2 times the minimum wage here).
But I'm still enjoying the schadenfreude of these latest Sony disasters, so I can't be sad.
Yeah, but up until now the Egregious Ripoff Full of Crap edition of games at least included the fucking game.
But it's obvious what happened. Soyn thought this would be super mega big hit game and the modern audience that definitely exists was gonna eat it up because that's what the Sweet Babies and Anita told them. Now they're seeing the preorder numbers and they're hoping they can at least cut their losses by having some collectorfags buy them, never open them, then let them collect dust in a storage pod for years in the hopes that they'll accrue in value.
Or it's just further testing the waters for killing physical media. Can we still sell this bullshit without a physical copy of the game?
As already mentioned, it's been happening for years now, probably closer to a decade to be honest. It started because people wanted the digital store copy they could pre-load and then play at midnight, and still buy their useless "collectible" garbage separately. Including a key for a digital copy in the box doesn't make sense for this scenario, since no one is getting their bundle of bullshit delivered at midnight, going to midnight releases at stores, and wouldn't want to have to drive back home and wait for the 75GB day 1 patch to download and install anyway.
The "original" reason was shipping and preorder concerns, that's why they'd come with the stupid metal case at least. But this crap was happening even back in 2014 so over a decade ago.
"This collector's edition does not include a copy of the game. Keep your pre-order at your favourite retailer and we'll send you these goodies separately - this way we can ship these boxes worldwide and you're not stuck waiting for your game to come along with an oversized, expensively shipped box."
Another 100+ dollar dualsense controller have been announced, this time they put some cheap ass stickers on their overstocked common white 70 dollar dualsense. Its for their live service garbage Gran Turismo. That cant be played offline since it need to connect online for the microtransactions. Hurry up and consoooom, Soyny need your mony ASAP!
Another 100+ dollar dualsense controller have been announced, this time they put some cheap ass stickers on their overstocked common white 70 dollar dualsense. Its for their live service garbage Gran Turismo. That cant be played offline since it need to connect online for the microtransactions. Hurry up and consoooom, Soyny need your mony ASAP!
I like how the responses to pretty much all of their Xeets these days are just variations of this, ad infinitum:
The controller announcement changed things up a bit with endless variations of this:
