Do you buy the Collectors Edition?

I'm curious. Do you buy the Collectors Edition?

There have been a few games where I couldn't wait to be released. I was so excited for them and to help support them, I bought the Collectors edition of the game. The few times I've done this, I've questioned why - after the fact. For an in-game pet? A alternate outfit? The soundtrack I never listed to? The book of game art I looked through once? I've found this has not been money well spent and here I am readyto pre-order Dead Space 2 and actually considered the Collectors edition. I think I learned my lesson. For me, it's not necessary.

Thoughts?

I almost bought the Starcraft 2 one, but I have no need for the WoW pet, and I had the idea to put Brood War(and did it) on a flash drive a week before the announcement. So I didn't see it to be worth the extra $40.

Nope. Seems like a waste of money to me. I'm the kind of gamer that 95% of my purchases are severly discounted though, so getting me to even pay retail is a challenge, lol.

Nope. Seems like a waste of money to me. I'm the kind of gamer that 95% of my purchases are severly discounted though, so getting me to even pay retail is a challenge, lol.

mkaliaz

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Nope. Seems like a waste of money to me. I'm the kind of gamer that 95% of my purchases are severly discounted though, so getting me to even pay retail is a challenge, lol.

IvanElk

rarely and usually only for in game bonuses... I don't care for the happy meal toys they throw in the box.

In certain games I perfer the collectors editions, but only if it has the upgrade extras I look for. Many recent games released as CE have mostly worthless junk that's not worth the additional price. I look for mainly two things.....1) the casing it comes in, such as a high quality metal or leather bound material and.... 2) an indepth manual, again with quality binding and printing.

The problem is, these pretty much don't exist anymore. I have a bunch of CE games for the PC, but only 3 or 4 really come close to what I want in them. Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory, Civ IV, Prey and maybe Halo 2 (Xbox).The last one I purchased was Mass Effect 2 CE. It's was (meh) just ok, nothing really special. But the 1st three I listed were very nice, great display pieces that I really don't see much of any more.

I was interested in the CE for Civ V, but after doing a bit of research, I realized It wasn't worth it, which greatly disappointed me. It seems developers today issue these so called collectors editions with mostly items that I would just trash, in compairson to games made 10-15 years ago that came with lots of goodies packed with the standard game for no extra charge.....How things have changed......:(

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Nope. Seems like a waste of money to me. I'm the kind of gamer that 95% of my purchases are severly discounted though, so getting me to even pay retail is a challenge, lol.

IvanElk

Heh, sorry, but nope. Most of my PC games I buy on Steam sales....but I buy a lot of them. I probably have about 130 games on my account. I also visit the Cheap Ass Gamer website often to find good deals elsewhere.

id do it for the right price.. before an error correction at bestbuy back in 08 at the nightfall release the CE was 59 bucks up here :P as opposed to the 95 it eventually came to be. wether this is a 1 store incident or a nation wide thing ill never know.. all i know is i bought the CE for the same price as the regular game at release and not a penny more :D

i also sometimes buy leftover pre-order games people have failed to claim.

normally though i save such a thing for hardware not software.. i got the codmw2 hd 5830 for example.. and wayy back when the hl2 radeon 9800 xt

Very rarely will I and it usually has to meet 2 guidelines for me to bother with it.

1. Is it cheap as hell

2. Does it give me something worthwhile

The latest collectors edition that fit that criteria for me was the LOTRO Moria expansion. Got it for 10 bucks and it came with a ton of stuff so it was worth it. I will rarely if ever pay 50 dollars for a game let alone shell out another 10 (or more) for the collectors. Always gotta be cheap cheap cheap :P

I do, if the CE's come with substantial packaging. For example, the Bioshock 2 CE was great; it included a vinyl album and pretty art book. An example of a CE that sucked was the one for Dragon Age: Origins; [sarcasm] woo hoo, they gave me a tin box and a rag with writing on it. [/sarcasm]

Nope. Usually a waste of money.

The only collector's edition I've ever owned was of the original Command & Conquer: Red Alert, and that was a gift.

I like to buy collectors ed, sure, but rarely on release day.... only in recent memory can I remember buying Arkham Asylum collector's ed for the in-pack batarang thing which I went a bit geeky over.... ha ha. I mostly buy them when the game is far down the line in used game sections, where it usually only costs a couple of quid more than the regular copy, so I like to get them that way.

Only if it comes with something useful, like included expansion packs, Soundtracks (if the music in the game is worth a crap, unlike gta) other than that, I don't bother with them.