God of War Laufey is the next big game to get a collector box without the game itself.
Does two high profile releases make a trend?
If so, I don’t like this trend.
God of War Laufey is the next big game to get a collector box without the game itself.
Does two high profile releases make a trend?
If so, I don’t like this trend.
This is not just about no physical disc, though. This is about a game’s collector’s edition not even coming with the game itself, physical or digital.
Yep, hence the “may or may not” part of my statement. The practice not entirely new either, since a few publishers have been doing that for a while now as a “platform-agnostic” way to handle collector editions. Just weirder for Sony, since they only have one platform they’re releasing on, but presumably they want it to be interpreted as giving the “choice” (read: opportunity to give us more money) for people to also choose between the standard and digital deluxe edition.
What other games did this?
Sony did it for Spider-Man before this: https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/collectors-editions-without-game-good-200013882.html
Happened for Dragon Age Veilguard: https://kotaku.com/dragon-age-veilguard-collectors-edition-rooks-coffer-1851623607
Diablo 4 as well: https://www.psu.com/news/diablo-4-limited-collectors-edition-costs-nearly-100-but-doesnt-include-the-game-itself/
There’s a bunch more, but that’s just what I grabbed in a couple mins of searching.
Ugh.
You’re right 100%. To me, it’s the an edition then, it’s a bundle at best.