Resident Evil 6 Resident evil 6 premium edition costs £817 WTF!?

  • Welcome to the Resident Evil Community Forum!

    We're a group of fans who are passionate about the Resident Evil series and video gaming.

    Register Log in

At my EB Games store when I went to pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw, I caught a glimpse at the price on the computer, It was the same I payed for ORC; $130 for the collectors edition.
-went on their site theres no such thing?? maybe you saw something else or your games in your country are just that expensive normally...? here its $59.99 usd
 
what country is this???? i live in the united states we just have gamestops here...all they had was if you pre-order you get the free mercenaries map of the catacombs unlocked.-also you sure pay alot for games, im sorry :( -i sure hope we get a cool collectors edition here!! - if i hear anything ill let everyone know and if you get a look at this one you ordered tell us whats in it?
I'm in New Zealand, the currency is different here, not much is known about the pre-order bonus except the Disc Locked mercs map yeah.
 
what country is this???? i live in the united states we just have gamestops here...all they had was if you pre-order you get the free mercenaries map of the catacombs unlocked.-also you sure pay alot for games, im sorry :( -i sure hope we get a cool collectors edition here!! - if i hear anything ill let everyone know and if you get a look at this one you ordered tell us whats in it?
We don't just have Game Stops...We also have EB Games...EB Games is owned by Game Stop, and in my opinion, EB Games are better...
 
If they replaced tablet covers with actual tablets, then the price would be (more) reasonable.
 
The more I think about this the more crazier it gets. Who wants to spend 1200$ just to get a jacket they'll probably never wear. Its for novelty purposes only. What is Capcom fighting for, the most expensive special edition ever?
Well then you won.
 
the silliest part is, the original caption was, resident evil premium edition with free jacket, so essentially your paying 1200 USD for a game and paying nothing for the jacket, when you think about it that way you willl get even more mad.
 
the silliest part is, the original caption was, resident evil premium edition with free jacket, so essentially your paying 1200 USD for a game and paying nothing for the jacket, when you think about it that way you willl get even more mad.
I'm sure its value is really worth 1200$. Capcom doesn't want to get sued. I think this just sucks as a platinum edition. Mini figurines, art book, dogtags, soundtrack, etc would've been better.
 
Maybe you get a samurais edge and a T-virus of your very own besides whats listed ???-But seriously i am not interested in that collectors edition if it was $80...Nothing id want in it:p..I do hope they come out with a better collectors edition like one of the ones i posted or you guys wanted in my old thread, then id glady pay up to $150.00 usd for something id like! -They also were supposed to have a vote on the cash-com site about what the fans would want in a collectors edition........thats never happened!!!
 
I think it would have been a much better idea to ask what fans might want to see in an edition like this rather than just go ahead and put whatever in, hoping people won't notice the price tag to quality of items ratio so much.

I don't know how these companies decide what's good and what isn't but sometimes I look at the contents of "special" or "limited" editions and think, "what? why would you consider that any good? and why would you ask a further £50 for it?" I can understand when they include sculptures and stuff that actually takes time and a decent amount of money to create because quite often the costs are not recouped when selling a lot of individually-created art. It's not the same as a factory mass-producing some plastic keychains or a map.

When I look at what Guild Wars 2 is offering, then I can see the reason behind the price tag for their collectors edition of the game. Aside from stuff like a hardback art book and what have you, they've got a specialist company to design and create sculptures of Rytlock. Each Rytlock sculpture is hand-made with quality materials used, 10 inches tall and effing heavy by all accounts - a proper piece of collectors art; something a fan would love to display.


Sometimes the companies get it right. But too many times I feel they don't put enough thought into it and then ask a whole heap of money for what essentially ends up being mostly digital items rather than collectable physical things.
 
  • Like
Reactions: HELLBOY1980
That seems like such a get out of jail free card - say something that's not particularly committed in any one direction and then you can go "well we never said we'd take it on board" or whatever.

Unless the ideas put forth were simply not possible - but having read through some of that thread, there were more than a few good ideas which would have been perfectly possible.

Makes me want to make my own special content for a game - just get the basic copy and fan-make all my "collectors" or "premium" stuff myself. Might actually get what I want then...
 
I think it would have been a much better idea to ask what fans might want to see in an edition like this rather than just go ahead and put whatever in, hoping people won't notice the price tag to quality of items ratio so much.

I don't know how these companies decide what's good and what isn't but sometimes I look at the contents of "special" or "limited" editions and think, "what? why would you consider that any good? and why would you ask a further £50 for it?" I can understand when they include sculptures and stuff that actually takes time and a decent amount of money to create because quite often the costs are not recouped when selling a lot of individually-created art. It's not the same as a factory mass-producing some plastic keychains or a map.

When I look at what Guild Wars 2 is offering, then I can see the reason behind the price tag for their collectors edition of the game. Aside from stuff like a hardback art book and what have you, they've got a specialist company to design and create sculptures of Rytlock. Each Rytlock sculpture is hand-made with quality materials used, 10 inches tall and effing heavy by all accounts - a proper piece of collectors art; something a fan would love to display.


Sometimes the companies get it right. But too many times I feel they don't put enough thought into it and then ask a whole heap of money for what essentially ends up being mostly digital items rather than collectable physical things.
Right. A poll asking the fans would've been nice.
 
  • Like
Reactions: KennedyKiller
I remember looking to buy leons jacket from RE4 at one point but payin over $1000 dollars is insane. Sure you could get similar replicas for way cheaper. And i don't buy clothes online because first of all sizes and how do i know its gonna look good on me? I may think i am cool wearing leons jacket but i may end up looking like a dingus.