GAME outs Dragon Age special edition News

I've got Dragon Age Online for the PC on pre-order for £25 at GAME and I see no reason to pay almost double that for a bunch of unnecessary extras when the game already comes with 20 GB (reputedly) of content. Some of the DLC is free anyway so I can't see where this £20+ of "extra value" is myself.

£5 off omg what a bargain i must buy atleast 5!

@Darren: I'm with you on this. I usually like getting Limited/Special editions of games but there is very little in this pack that makes up for the price.

Hasn't this been known for a while?

Specifically, it has been known that the GAME 'Collectors Edition' is unbelievably poor in comparison to the US/European Collectors Edition, and worse in every conceivable way - yet still costs the same.

I clicked on the news story with some hope that Game had unveiled a new, better collectors edition.

I thought they were still including smoked sausage in the SE...no buy!

Isn't this collectors edition identical (content-wise) to the Digital Deluxe edition which is available for £40 as a digital download direct from EA?

If so, is this a rare case of a digital product being (for now, at least) cheaper than its retail equivalent? o.O

'Plastic Collectors Box'

sold.

So, no steelbook then? Damn, it's not worth it without steelbook.

Digital Deluxe features an extra piece of DLC; Wardens Keep, so in theory you get more from that version. Can't remember what items you get, but all these pre-order books, boots, helms and rings are rather annoying anyway.

Like hundreds of others, I cancelled my Game CE order. Incredibly disappointed, maybe EG can look into why the UK is the sole country in the world to be cursed with this CE (Although I understand 1 or 2 others may not have one available too), because EA aren't answering anyones emails with anything particularly relevant.

I remember when an ordinary computer game would include a cloth map, a small ceramic ankh, a book-thick manual and a bundle of tarot cards. Now even the expensive "Collector's Edition" contains less than that and the ordinary computer game is lucky to even have a thin manual printed on actual paper. Sigh.

I miss the old cardbvoard boxes. Like Baldur's gate, with its fold out CD sleeve which never held the CDs in place. Ahhh nostalgia. So illogical.

I still dont know which platfrom (PC or 360) to get it on :(

Best one ever was Shadow Of the Beast 2 T-Shirt. i had it for years. It then got thrown out :-(

@ZuluHero

Same here. Don't know which to get PC, 360, or PS3.

Any word yet on the controls, graphical differences etc?

Tempted to go for the PC as it's cheaper but every time I get a game for my PC something goes wrong even though it's got an OK spec.

I really wanted the cloth map, i don't understand why they would not include it in the uk edition. I love these things, I've still got my Ultima IV coin.

I heard that it will be coming to steam in a couple of weeks so its worth holding off.

Worst special edition ever.

I've posted about this a couple of times in the forums, but again, this is just a complete rip off, it's basically an extra £15 for a making of DVD. The in-game items aren't really as good as the one from Play, the Dragon armour comes with all versions of the game and the extra quest can be bought much cheaper seperatly.

Considering how much better the US/European one is, this is just sad, I don't see why anybody would buy it.

Eurogamer may want to change this. The memory ring is a pre-order bonus for all versions and both the SE and CE get the Blood Dragon Armour and Stone Prisoner DLC. And if anything you only get 2 additonal pieces of equipment as there are five retailers who offer an additional piece of gear with pre-orders.

Pre-Order GAME CE gets 4 pieces of equipment and two DLC
Pre-Order SE gets two pieces of equipment and two DLC

For anyone that wants to try out the character generator for the game, Bioware have released it as a standalone download for the PC as of today: -

http://daforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.ht...

It would have been nice if Eurogamer had outed this as EA pissing on UK customers instead of just running a free ad for Game.

I think collectors editions of games are ridiculous these days, and are merely a way to gain even more money for little effort (when the game itself is severely overpriced as it is). However, if people are stupid enough to pay for that shit, then that's their choice and doesn't affect me. However, what does affect me is when these limited/collector's editions offer in-game content that is not in the main release, since it is essentially ripping players off whom purchase the standard game.

Concept art, t-shirts, CDs etc... , are all fine as bonus material... but in-game content is pushing it too far, and I am - once again - disappointed with both Bio-Ware and EA for this news.

The ingame content here are only a few items that make the game easier. I generally agree, but it's not like you're really missing out on anything here. And the DLC quest it comes with can be bought seperatly. (again, for much better value than this "collectors" edition.)

Superb editorial work here from EG towers, I'll look in for my next excerpt from GAME's weekly newsletter tomorrow, shall I?

Game.

Well that sucks.

If I want the Collectors edition I have to go to a store where there will be twenty or so empty boxes of the game on the shelves, I get to pick one, take it to the spotty guy at the counter talking to three other spotty fuckers all discussing how many raspberries they managed to stuff up their arses the night before, who will look at me like I've just intruded on the best conversation ever, who will then disappear out back for ten minutes before eventually telling me "No we're sold out of that", toss the empty box on the counter and go back to the raspberry conversation with a dismissive sniff in my direction.

Game are the worst store ever, would rather wait for the thing to arrive from the states than go shop there.

Now, Eurogamer:
"The Collector's Edition also offers the Blood Dragon Armour and Stone Prisoner launch DLC that we told you about last week."

... you told us "last week" that the DLC content here was free to ANY version of the game, not just the Collectors edition. What are you saying now?