Why doesn't PC get collector editions of games?

I Google'd my question but didn't get anything I was looking for.

I know most people that play PC buy digitally, but it would be nice to be able to get a few collector editions of games here and there. I don't like having to buy the console version of a game to get all cool stuff that comes with these special edtions (the physical stuff, not just extra downloadable content)

We PC gamers do get collector's editions. I have two of them, the Rainbow Six Collector's Edition and the World in Conflict Collector's Edition that even comes with a certfied piece of the Berlin Wall included in it.

There aren't many collector's editions in the past 2 years. Now we get "digital deluxe" or "digital collector's" editions. You pay extra for a download of the soundtrack, and some PDF files with art on them. It's really lame for a collector.

I don't like getting physical stuff. When I buy a game I want extra codes. Not statues, or key chains or art books.

They do happen, a lot.  I have collector's items on my desk right now, including a Fallout 1950s tin lunchbox and pipboy.  I stopped buying them though since I prefer the convenience of digtial and it's prices.

Looking at my collection of CEs I have Skyrim, Far Cry 3, Witcher 2, three Assassin's Creed collector's editions, Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite, Dark Souls, Alan Wake, Mass Effect 2 and 3, so what are you talking about? We get the same if not more than consoles.couly

Depends on the region, but some regions just don't see enough sales to make them bother with a retail let alone a collectors edition. nutcrackr

If you are referring to the USA, then I don't buy it. 15 years ago, PC game sections were big in retail stores. It isn't sales that are hurting PC at retail. It is a variety of other factors. Retailers can't resell used PC games, so they are de-incentivized to carry them. Other big publishers want to push their consoles so much, they don't even want any of their PC games on shelves. Some publishers want to push people into consoles due to high piracy on the PC. Then there is this prevailing idea that all games are going digital. While digital is certainly taking a healthy percentage of game sales, I think saying it is going all digital is far from correct. If it were true, people wouldn't have railed against Microsoft's Xbox One digital games system.

PC gaming is fragmented. It lacks a single heavyweight company like Sony or Microsoft to support it. This has allowed various retail and publishers to align themselves against PC retail.

Um.... Tons of PC games have collector's editions. In fact, almost every game with a collector's edition on console, also has a similar collector's edition for PC, assuming the game is on PC.

[QUOTE="nutcrackr"]Depends on the region, but some regions just don't see enough sales to make them bother with a retail let alone a collectors edition. Falconoffury

If you are referring to the USA, then I don't buy it. 15 years ago, PC game sections were big in retail stores. It isn't sales that are hurting PC at retail. It is a variety of other factors. Retailers can't resell used PC games, so they are de-incentivized to carry them. Other big publishers want to push their consoles so much, they don't even want any of their PC games on shelves. Some publishers want to push people into consoles due to high piracy on the PC. Then there is this prevailing idea that all games are going digital. While digital is certainly taking a healthy percentage of game sales, I think saying it is going all digital is far from correct. If it were true, people wouldn't have railed against Microsoft's Xbox One digital games system.

PC gaming is fragmented. It lacks a single heavyweight company like Sony or Microsoft to support it. This has allowed various retail and publishers to align themselves against PC retail.

Don't buy into that crap about "high piracy on the PC". They throw that shit at gullible people that gobble it up and then spit it back out to others. I know guys that pirate the shit out of games on the 360 and PS3 and I've been directed to websites that sell pre-loaded PS3 HDDs of pirated games.

Now, I don't know if it's easier to pirate stuff on the PC over doing it on the consoles, I just know it's done on both sides.

For a company to claim that high piracy is why their game didn't sell well on the PC, just a cop out to elude the fact that most likely the game is poorly optimized on the PC or the game is just crap and PC gamers didn't want anything to do with it.

If you are referring to the USA, then I don't buy it. 15 years ago, PC game sections were big in retail stores. It isn't sales that are hurting PC at retail. It is a variety of other factors. Retailers can't resell used PC games, so they are de-incentivized to carry them. Other big publishers want to push their consoles so much, they don't even want any of their PC games on shelves. Some publishers want to push people into consoles due to high piracy on the PC. Then there is this prevailing idea that all games are going digital. While digital is certainly taking a healthy percentage of game sales, I think saying it is going all digital is far from correct. If it were true, people wouldn't have railed against Microsoft's Xbox One digital games system.

PC gaming is fragmented. It lacks a single heavyweight company like Sony or Microsoft to support it. This has allowed various retail and publishers to align themselves against PC retail.

Falconoffury

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[QUOTE="nutcrackr"]Depends on the region, but some regions just don't see enough sales to make them bother with a retail let alone a collectors edition. neatfeatguy

If you are referring to the USA, then I don't buy it. 15 years ago, PC game sections were big in retail stores. It isn't sales that are hurting PC at retail. It is a variety of other factors. Retailers can't resell used PC games, so they are de-incentivized to carry them. Other big publishers want to push their consoles so much, they don't even want any of their PC games on shelves. Some publishers want to push people into consoles due to high piracy on the PC. Then there is this prevailing idea that all games are going digital. While digital is certainly taking a healthy percentage of game sales, I think saying it is going all digital is far from correct. If it were true, people wouldn't have railed against Microsoft's Xbox One digital games system.

PC gaming is fragmented. It lacks a single heavyweight company like Sony or Microsoft to support it. This has allowed various retail and publishers to align themselves against PC retail.

Don't buy into that crap about "high piracy on the PC". They throw that shit at gullible people that gobble it up and then spit it back out to others. I know guys that pirate the shit out of games on the 360 and PS3 and I've been directed to websites that sell pre-loaded PS3 HDDs of pirated games.

Now, I don't know if it's easier to pirate stuff on the PC over doing it on the consoles, I just know it's done on both sides.

For a company to claim that high piracy is why their game didn't sell well on the PC, just a cop out to elude the fact that most likely the game is poorly optimized on the PC or the game is just crap and PC gamers didn't want anything to do with it.

TOTALLY agree with you on this one. It is more difficult to develop games for the PC compared to consoles, due to its heterogeneous nature. So 'piracy' is just a lame excuse given by developers who are not competent enough to develop games for a heterogeneous platform like the PC. Also, most statistics showing sales figures ONLY considers retail sales. This makes no sense for PC games, because right now majority of PC games are bought digitally. I can't even imagine how foolish people sound when they say games don't sell well enough on the PC, when its pretty obvious that most sales figures consider only retail sales.

Now regarding piracy on consoles, its not a big deal at all. Console versions of most modern multiplat games were out on torrenbt sites much earlier than the PC versions (for example Hitman Absolution, Tomb Raider, Splinter Cell Blacklist etc.). For people saying that no one would be willing to chip their console and be denied of multi-player, consider this. people who pirate just own two consoles - a chipped one for pirated games, and a normal one for playing legitimate games and multi-player. Combined cost of two consoles is still less than a high end gaming PC, so it makes perfect sense. By the way, usually even pirated PC games cannot be used for multi-player.

So, piracy is definitely overrated on the PC. The situation isn't even half as bad as what people believe. And console game too are pirated as much as PC games.

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[QUOTE="nutcrackr"]Depends on the region, but some regions just don't see enough sales to make them bother with a retail let alone a collectors edition. neatfeatguy

If you are referring to the USA, then I don't buy it. 15 years ago, PC game sections were big in retail stores. It isn't sales that are hurting PC at retail. It is a variety of other factors. Retailers can't resell used PC games, so they are de-incentivized to carry them. Other big publishers want to push their consoles so much, they don't even want any of their PC games on shelves. Some publishers want to push people into consoles due to high piracy on the PC. Then there is this prevailing idea that all games are going digital. While digital is certainly taking a healthy percentage of game sales, I think saying it is going all digital is far from correct. If it were true, people wouldn't have railed against Microsoft's Xbox One digital games system.

PC gaming is fragmented. It lacks a single heavyweight company like Sony or Microsoft to support it. This has allowed various retail and publishers to align themselves against PC retail.

Don't buy into that crap about "high piracy on the PC". They throw that shit at gullible people that gobble it up and then spit it back out to others. I know guys that pirate the shit out of games on the 360 and PS3 and I've been directed to websites that sell pre-loaded PS3 HDDs of pirated games.

Now, I don't know if it's easier to pirate stuff on the PC over doing it on the consoles, I just know it's done on both sides.

For a company to claim that high piracy is why their game didn't sell well on the PC, just a cop out to elude the fact that most likely the game is poorly optimized on the PC or the game is just crap and PC gamers didn't want anything to do with it.

In 3rd world countries where electronics cost a fortune, you can just go to the market and get modded consoles and pirate games right off the shelf.  For much of the world, it's easier to do that than crack games manually on a pc.

I have some collectors/special edition versions of games on pc already..

So apparently there's been alot of CEs for PC? Eh don't know where I've been then :P I'm talking about PHYSICAL items keep in mind. Not sure if some the games mentioned on this thread have that or not. SR4 is my exanple. Really wanted the dubstep gun replica, but it wasn't available with the PC version of the game.

Look:

Rainbow Six Collector's Edition

World in Conflict Collector's Edition 

I Google'd my question but didn't get anything I was looking for.

I know most people that play PC buy digitally, but it would be nice to be able to get a few collector editions of games here and there. I don't like having to buy the console version of a game to get all cool stuff that comes with these special edtions (the physical stuff, not just extra downloadable content)

TheGrinchh

The World in Conflict CE should have came with a Russian Flag. Just sayin'. :PElann2008

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]The World in Conflict CE should have came with a Russian Flag. Just sayin'. :Pwis3boi

[QUOTE="wis3boi"][QUOTE="Elann2008"]The World in Conflict CE should have came with a Russian Flag. Just sayin'. :PElann2008

My WiCCE has a piece of the Wall and I got it long after the game first came out. There are places on Amazon that have it for around $40 new and it is supposed to come with a piece of the Wall. I got mine from a seller on Amazon. 

So apparently there's been alot of CEs for PC? Eh don't know where I've been then :P I'm talking about PHYSICAL items keep in mind. Not sure if some the games mentioned on this thread have that or not. SR4 is my exanple. Really wanted the dubstep gun replica, but it wasn't available with the PC version of the game.

TheGrinchh

Every MMO I have ever bought, I have bought the Collector's Edition.

Sadly, I never got the collector's edition of vanilla WoW... A collector's item that will run you to the tune of several thousands of dollars to get now.

[QUOTE="nutcrackr"]Depends on the region, but some regions just don't see enough sales to make them bother with a retail let alone a collectors edition. Falconoffury

If you are referring to the USA, then I don't buy it. 15 years ago, PC game sections were big in retail stores. It isn't sales that are hurting PC at retail. It is a variety of other factors. Retailers can't resell used PC games, so they are de-incentivized to carry them. Other big publishers want to push their consoles so much, they don't even want any of their PC games on shelves. Some publishers want to push people into consoles due to high piracy on the PC. Then there is this prevailing idea that all games are going digital. While digital is certainly taking a healthy percentage of game sales, I think saying it is going all digital is far from correct. If it were true, people wouldn't have railed against Microsoft's Xbox One digital games system.

PC gaming is fragmented. It lacks a single heavyweight company like Sony or Microsoft to support it. This has allowed various retail and publishers to align themselves against PC retail.

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[QUOTE="nutcrackr"]Depends on the region, but some regions just don't see enough sales to make them bother with a retail let alone a collectors edition. danten81

If you are referring to the USA, then I don't buy it. 15 years ago, PC game sections were big in retail stores. It isn't sales that are hurting PC at retail. It is a variety of other factors. Retailers can't resell used PC games, so they are de-incentivized to carry them. Other big publishers want to push their consoles so much, they don't even want any of their PC games on shelves. Some publishers want to push people into consoles due to high piracy on the PC. Then there is this prevailing idea that all games are going digital. While digital is certainly taking a healthy percentage of game sales, I think saying it is going all digital is far from correct. If it were true, people wouldn't have railed against Microsoft's Xbox One digital games system.

PC gaming is fragmented. It lacks a single heavyweight company like Sony or Microsoft to support it. This has allowed various retail and publishers to align themselves against PC retail.

[QUOTE="danten81"][QUOTE="Falconoffury"]

If you are referring to the USA, then I don't buy it. 15 years ago, PC game sections were big in retail stores. It isn't sales that are hurting PC at retail. It is a variety of other factors. Retailers can't resell used PC games, so they are de-incentivized to carry them. Other big publishers want to push their consoles so much, they don't even want any of their PC games on shelves. Some publishers want to push people into consoles due to high piracy on the PC. Then there is this prevailing idea that all games are going digital. While digital is certainly taking a healthy percentage of game sales, I think saying it is going all digital is far from correct. If it were true, people wouldn't have railed against Microsoft's Xbox One digital games system.

PC gaming is fragmented. It lacks a single heavyweight company like Sony or Microsoft to support it. This has allowed various retail and publishers to align themselves against PC retail.

wis3boi

I have borderlands 2 collectors edition with that bobble head which cost even less then console version of the normal edition :P

blizzard makes great collectors editions.Allicrombie