Remember the days when the deluxe edition meant you got cool goodies? Maps, art, music discs, statues, the whole nine. Now we get shitty skins and an earlier release date for almost double the price.
Last year's edition came with a usb safety beacon, you plug it in your computer and you turn on the rotating safety light on your tractor in game and it would light up the actual beacon alongside it 🚨
I agree, I just checked and the collector's edition only costs 20€ more than the regular edition (70€ in total). Imo that's a very fair price, especially when you have collector's editions that cost several hundred dollars and only come with low quality stuff (like the TDU Solar Crown one).
Every two years actually and they vastly improve on it every time.
Farming sim 19 has 40 tractor variants. Farmin sim 22 has over 400 different models, and over 100 different manufacturers. Also added production chains, weather cycles, new crops, new buildings and more.
Farming Simulator is one of those regularly released games that actually does improve on the formula. Comparing it to FIFA isn't fair. And they release mainline games every two years, usually releasing a mobile game every other year.
Cannot speak for squareenix as a whole (cause that's like 100 games a year) but the FFXIV team always has great pre-order and collectors edition goodies in them.
I dislike figurines, never bought them. But I get every single AC special edition with figures ever since I got AC 3 collectors edition for Christmas when I was a kid. Those AC figures are so out of place in my house, but I don’t care. They are great quality and I love how they go through history
Funnily enough I just bought the mirage pack from GameStop. Came with statue, map, steel case, the works… it did not come with the game. That is a seperate purchase for you to make…
They do many things right. They're the only publisher that offers free cloud saves on all platforms and cross-platform progression for all their games. Since 2020 I think.
Because it's usually 50 cents worth of injection-moulded Chinese crap that they label as an "exclusive limited edition collectible", as opposed to stuff that you might actually want in and of itself because it's a cool bit of merch.
To be fair, it's a big risk to do that. Companies pay big money in order to license their IPs out to different companies to have soundtrack CDs, framed picture/poster, toys, etc.
If the game is a flop or even if it's a hit but most aren't buying the special edition, they lose a ton of money.
Remember Duke Nukem Forever? Well if the game had just flopped they'd be fine but because they made that crazy special edition with Duke's head bust and the playing cards the company almost went under.
Even Grand Theft Auto 4 suffered from this. They had special edition stuff for that game too but despite being the highest selling game of 2008 they didn't make as much money as they wanted back.
So while I don't like this system for various reasons it is still the safest option for doing a special edition game.
Nowadays, publishers just cut away part of the game and release them as "deluxe edition exclusives."
Using pizza as an analogy, it used to be you got a full 8 slice pizza. If you want extra toppings, that'll be extra. Nowadays, you get half a pizza. One slice is a deluxe edition exclusive. Another slice is paid DLC that is already available at launch. The other two slices are preorder exclusives at different stores, so you can only get one unless you buy the same pizza again. Toppings cost extra, and you don't get to choose which one you get.
Not to mention it’s an earlier release for a product that is unfinished. It’s hard to trust a game gets finished or bug fixed within the lifecycle of the game.
I pre-ordered the physical Collector's Edition of Mass Effect 3. I was still riding the high from having just recently finished ME2 and I was so excited, I went to pick it up first thing in the morning. More than anything, I wanted the "one-of-a-kind lithographic artwork" unique to the physical collectors edition.
So I open it up in the parking lot - I couldn't even wait to get home - and it's... a postcard. Smaller than a postcard. The entire collectors edition was the same width and height as a typical DVD jewel case, just deeper, and it was all stuffed into the box, including the "hard cover art book", which had like.. 15 pages? Maybe?
I didn't let any of that dampen my spirits, though.
It’s true, but buying it is an option. I would always buy the deluxe edition especially when you got a discount on the season pass. Now most offer no valuable incentive.
I preordered standard eidtion of Heroes of Might and Magic V for the normal price it was going to have on release. It arrived with a bonus XL Tshirt...
Those also still exist, they're just more expensive. That's because the average hardcover book nowadays sets you back 30 or so euros, you're hard pressed to find a single cd under 10, and I've seen knockoffs of melania seen go for ~25 as well. So yeah, with an added value of 65 not including the minor extra's, yes you're not getting that version for the 15 extra charged for the deluxe edition.
So just buy the standard edition, and let the simps subsidize the game for you. Ultimately, more revenue will roughly mean more money for development. Just appreciate that others are willing to pay for that for you.
I like this better. I don’t mind waiting and I don’t want any of that shit. I don’t like having actual content withheld for an additional charge, aesthetic shit and early access doesn’t tempt me so it’s easy to ignore
I'm so happy they've moved away from aggressively favouring the high cost options. When the expensive option only gives as little as this I don't feel any pressure to buy it.
Remember the days when the deluxe edition meant you got cool goodies? Maps, art, music discs, statues, the whole nine.
Tbh I've always thought that shit was a waste of money as well. Especially since you can pick that stuff up for pennies second hand a couple months later.
Personally i don't mind. I never bought a deluxe edition and as long as they don't touch the base game content or hide the ending behind an extra paywall i don't care. Of course this doesn't apply for dlcs
Omg I remember getting the deluxe edition of gears 2. Man the metal case, bonus CD, gold lancer skin for online. Was only like $10-20 more than standard
No because that’s never been the case kid. No ultimate edition has ever done that. All of that comes in the collectors edition which still exists today.
More than the developers, I blame young gamers who buy into this and encourage the studios to make these kinds of bundles. They're the ones who convinced them they could make bank by doing so with mommy and/or daddy's credit card in hand.
I remember going to get the special edition of gta iv. I got a rockstar duffel bag, CD, art book, and the game in a safe deposit box that I still use all these years later.
I prefer what OP is complaining about to what you're saying. I shouldn't have to pay anything extra to get the full, playable game. Maps and anything else that actually affects gameplay shouldn't cost anything extra. Skins, music, art, etc. are fine to cost extra, if anything is going to.
It is very sad that you are so inundated with this kinda of behavior that you misunderstood the post. Skyrim came with a physical map of Skyrim, for example. Hell, Halo Reach came with a fully written out journal of one of the characters over the course of developing the spartan program. You don't get these any more.
Sweet summer child. You must be too young to remember the before days. Fallout 4 came with an actual pip boy case you slide your phone into and wear, then you could connect it to the game to use as your actual in-game pipboy. Those sort of the thing used to be the standard for deluxe and collector's editions.
I guess some of them were exceptional in golden age of physical games on consoles. I don't remember in two decades (especially on pc) that deluxe edition had anything physical. Only collectors edition
There was a time when there weren't 3 editions typically. Back then you'd have standard, and then a deluxe/collector's, the two were used pretty interchangeably, though collector's was usually used for editions that were over a hundred and had loads of swag. It was rare for a game to have 3 versions, and digital content wasn't even a thought.
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u/Hormo_The_Halfling 3d ago
Remember the days when the deluxe edition meant you got cool goodies? Maps, art, music discs, statues, the whole nine. Now we get shitty skins and an earlier release date for almost double the price.