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8/7/2014 4:15:28 PM
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Well i see whare you are coming from @topp hatt but your point isn't quite valid. You see, the Ghost Edition is "limited." Imagine if everyone or mostly everyone were to be owners of the GE..you wont feel special, your GE won't feel special becuase now you know that half of your school has it, half of the gaming commuinity has it. in [b]MY OPINION[/b] that diminishes the value of the item. It's a collecters item, it's limited, you had an equal opportunity to be an owner of this item.
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Lol do you even know how many there are? Which you notice if they made 50,000 more? Would you be mad? People don't buy it for that, they buy it for the immersive books and stuff.
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Yes. Plenty, but not many to go around HA!
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Thank you for seeing this point. I just...I thought it was a lesson everyone learned in kindergarten.
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You gotta look at it from a business point...4.6 million players; 1 million buy the ge/le's....but yet 2 million more want them. Are you, as bungie, gonna settle for everyone else buying the standard for $60 or do you want to more than double your money? So a total of 3 million buys the ge/le's and the rest doesn't, 1.6 million (not including the holiday standard editions that will be bought). And you've made a huge profit....thus I do think they will come out with more b4 launch..
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From a business standpoint, I wouldn''t release more. But I would release a digital limited edition upgrade where you can get all the digital items included for a flat fee. You don't get the artbooks or the statue. Just digital preorder bonuses and digital goodies. #sorrynotsorry #FUgivememoney This is standard practice in online games, and this thread is a perfect example why.... Jealousy, envy, regret- these are all powerful emotions that cause people to spend frivolously to fill it. And there will be plenty of online purchases, dingdongs, trinkets, and digital doodads for you to buy in the online store to chase that high and try your hardest to make that feeling go away. Envy of the red ghost, regret for missing an hour long window ( or less...impossible for some people to have a chance to buy). The hunger that people have for more chances to be unique that is ignited by not getting the ghost edition will make much more money in the long run than sating that hunger by releasing more Ghost editions to the public.
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Limited is ment to be LIMITED lol if they made more then might as well make the GE considered standard since everyone will have it
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Editado por macdadams: 8/7/2014 6:04:44 PMYes that would be truly awful. Anyone remember when pretty much every PC game would come in a big box filled with stuff like this?
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Hahah that's like throwback ! I wouldn't mind destiny for PC then if they decided to make more GE for PC since they didn't get anything I could understand
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Everybody won back in those days, everyone crying about how it needs to be limited needs to stop and ask themselves how much they really give a shit and how much cooler it would be if you could just get this stuff like the good ol days.
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THANK YOU! That was the point of my reply earlier.
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If any edition of any video game really makes someone feel "special" they really need to seek help. Nothing sold as a collectors item... actually is. Its marketing, which is working very very well.
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[quote]If any edition of any video game really makes someone feel "special" they really need to seek help.[/quote] not necessarily, why would you spend $150 dollars(US) on something that doesn't satisfy you enough to feel special or different. not in a flaunty way (thats another discussion) but in a more satisfying way. You can't tell me that you have never purchased anything that makes you feel special; again not in a flaunty way but more of a feeling of accomplishment.
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Editado por Doc SoCal: 8/7/2014 5:29:23 PMThe sense of satisfaction an acquisition grants me does not increase any feelings of self worth or specialness. I am not a sum of the things I own.
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Yep, a year from now they'll be practically worthless. There is a surprisingly small window for when these things are worth anything. Reminds me of buying Dynamic Forces ltd edition comics when I was younger.
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Scarcity makes the "Gotta Catch Em All" mentality go into overdrive. And Artificial Scarcity is one of the oldest marketing tricks in the book. People are not buying them as collectible items, they just want to have one too cuz tommy got one!
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I remember back in the early days of the NES when Nintendo would deliberately under-ship so that they would always guarantee a sell out and the scarcity would drive up demand for the subsequent shippings. It always worked like a charm.
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Editado por Doc SoCal: 8/7/2014 4:44:09 PMWorked quite well for the PS4 launch too. Having plenty of XBONES in stock at launch shows the opposite effect. Marketing... Gotta love it when it works.
