{"id":7259,"date":"2021-07-08T17:53:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T21:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2022-11-10T11:59:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T16:59:05","slug":"why-shouldnt-you-buy-collectors-editions-of-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecranpartage.ca\/en\/why-shouldnt-you-buy-collectors-editions-of-games","title":{"rendered":"Why shouldn’t you buy collector’s editions of games?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is an opinion piece by Marc. If you first want to know what a collector’s edition is, Amy explains it very well here. <\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quality of the physical bonuses in collector’s editions often leaves something to be desired. Unpainted figurines for Overwatch, audio CDs with soundtracks with only a few musics, illustration books with only 10 pages that you will open only once in your life and that will remain on your shelf…. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overwatch collector’s version and its unpainted figurine. The characters at the bottom of the image represent downloadable costumes in the game and are not figurines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Let’s be clear, the “bonuses” provided in one of these big “collector” boxes are absolutely not worth it. Most of them serve as decorations on a table or in a library 5 minutes after opening the box. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But do you really need all this plastic stuff, when you play a video game?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The digital bonuses included in the code form are not worth it, neither are the plastic stuff, the collector’s box increases the in-store price of the game by a minimum of 1.5 times, there are very few arguments in favor of buying a “collector’ box”. As you will see, some boxes are huge and remain for very long months in store waiting for a buyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These large boxes of objects also have the merit of attracting the attention of players via their huge objects and it is also a communication shot on the part of the marketing departments of publishers to promote their games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The worst is for new franchises and game series. At that time, the publishers offered many collectors based on a game whose quality and protagonist are not known, as was the case for the game Watch_Dogs, the first of the name. There was therefore no possible attachment to the series of games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We obviously cannot conclude by forgetting the ecological impact that all this production of plastic, audio CDs fill 10%, of pi\u00e9cettes, can have. Besides, in some absurd cases, the collector’s editions did not even contain the games they concerned! Or contained the games but in digital version. So a big mess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best way, therefore, for this kind of practice to stop is to stop buying them and not talking about them anymore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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