Here is a quote from further down the thread. It's important that everyone answer this before you and I can really have a foundation point to start the debate. [quote]I sure hope so. Agree or not I have mostly enjoyed reading your posts over the last few months. Let's start here. How much of the CE is the physical stuff worth? I don't need an exact figure I just need you to understand the difference in cost between physically manufactured items and digital items. There is a reason everyone is trying to make everything electronic. It's cheap, really cheap. The mega corporation can only exist in a digital ecosystem. The digital is pure extremistan (to borrow a term from Nassim Taleb) it cost less to produce than a physical item and its value is completely decoupled from the cost to make it. The cost to produce it is only the cost of labor. Physical items like, printed books, have a very definite cost and a relatively stable markup. I promise you that the cost to manufacture of of the CE printed material is far higher than the cost of the digital items. They aren't giving you the CE printed materials for free you are paying for that. The price difference between the regular Destiny and the CE is $20. The price of the digital material on its own is $20. So by your reasoning all the value is in the digital stuff right? No. Answer is no. The cost of labor to produce those shaders is in the fractions of a cent when measured at the scale they will be selling this package. The physical stuff has to be manufactured over and over again and the costs pile up. The digital stuff shrinks rapidly in cost per unit. Bungie just assigned that price and because it is the highest price they think you will pay. It's an insane price. What makes this frustrating is that they did this as a PR move to show that they weren't money hungry. It shows the opposite.[/quote]