News - No game in Wolfenstein: The New Order Panzerhund Edition box

[HEXUS]

The 'Panzerhund Edition' costs $100 and includes a pile of documents and trinkets, but no game.

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[jim]

Logical I guess, but still doesn't feel right.

To me, one of the highlights of a product like that is that you have the game itself sitting amidst it all. I don't actually own any special edition/collector's edition games, but I do own a few music CDs of a similar ilk (partly because they cost £15, not £75).

Would I buy the CD, in its normal packaging, and then sit a box alongside it with all the extra gubbins? No, don't think so.

[Dooms]

Surely they could of given you a download code to get around the "waiting for delivery of a big slow box" and then a physical copy with the collectors box.

[Saracen]

$100 for that?

Strange, I thought it was still March, but April must have arrived early this year.

Or are they actually serious.

[azrael-]

I can see the practical benefits ...sort of. But if they do it this way, then they'd better a) make a dedicated space in the box for the game and b) sell it substantially cheaper. Considering they probably want about $50 for the game itself this box should not sell for much more, if that.

Apart from that I concur with Dooms. However, I bet they wouldn't do that because you could just sell on your physical copy once you've gotten the download code.

EDIT: Just noticed the box contains a Steelbook case, but apparently that's not to keep your game disc. Go figure.