Very disappointed in Digital Deluxe items. Not as Advertised.

I ordered the CE and my wife ordered the DDE. I ended up cancelling my Amazon CE order last week because of the grace period flap (before the update to give two days) and was going to order the DDE at launch. I did not really need or greatly want the statue and for the life of me am not sure why I ordered the CE in the first place. I think that after reading the posts on this thread, I will just go with the digital SE.

PS - Absolutely great game with a lot of potential. I hope BW makes it happen.

Disappointed that my 'Training droid pet' is not really a pet at all.

I had hoped the Holo cam would create an in game slideshow of some sorts that would store pics, not just a bad version of *Screenshot*

A bit underwhelming for the money yes, since I only upgraded from normal edition to get these items, they really don't feel worth it nor are they all completely as advertised imo.

As for the pre order gem, I refused to use it as it is a horrible colour. Vanity made me keep my red lightsaber, much like it made me buy the useless DDE items.

Edit - as for the VIP vendor, its early days. I expect it will get some more items added to it. This is one thing I am not disappointed about at all. Sure, I'm slightly miffed that those with CE get more, but hey they paid more for it. I just hope some nice (and more affordable) items will be added soon.

I fail to see how the speeder is useless. Ideally it could last you for 25 more levels because the level 40 mount is hardly worth getting, unless you don't like getting stuff that removes a 8k money sink .

This.

I have the CE, and I'm seeing the same whining comments about what's in the CE store.

The virtual items are not 'better' than anything you can find / buy in game.

You don't have to find / buy them though.

So.... get over it, and enjoy the rest of the game.

You lost me here, as the STAP is awful looking

While I do not feel cheated for my money. I do think the color crystal and mount should scale with level. If they don't I wont get a chapped rear over it though.

I am really glad to see so much support. I really hope Bioware is listening to this.

Please:

Give us the training droid pet we purchased.
Consider letting speeders scale with your training level.
Do something with the holo camera other than making it take up an item slot for a print screen button
Fix the VIP lounge somehow. Make it worth using for DD, CE, and wrist band buyers
Do something about the color crystal. Give us color choices, take stats off all color crystals, make the pre-order crystals have a sliding scale to retain some usefulness, something.
Give us a 5 minute timer on the holo dancer or make it stay there until the owner gets out of range. Something more than a few seconds use.

No one in this thread has asked for an iwin button. No one in this thread has asked for a combat advantage. Everyone in this thread just wants what was advertised and what they paid for. All the people being negative or attacking the posters need to read more thoroughly. Also the people saying "Its just 20 bucks" need to learn the value of money as well as truth in marketing. Twenty dollars is twenty dollars. There is no law that says if your purchase is under twenty dollars the company need not give you what you actually bought because.. its only twenty dollars.

The training droid is worse than useless. You have to stop fighting in combat to click on it so it hovers around an enemy for the 1.5 seconds before they die.

It does not "hover at your side" as advertised. The description was flatly false.

The standard the Federal Trade Commission uses for false advertising is whether a person of "below average intelligence" would be confused. I don't think there's a single person who read the description and thought it would not hover at your side like a non-combat pet. If anyone bothered to file an FTC complaint or sue (not saying I would, but if it were to happen), Bioware would lose. Summary judgement.

And yes, the mount should be as fast as your fastest mount, and the crystal is butt-ugly.

As long as each editions exclusives remain exclusive then I'll be happy. Reasoning: STO different pre-orders gave different "exclusives" also a lifetime sub did too within months anything you had paid for was available to buy from the c-store at a much reduced rate.

Don't make anything game breaking. Although a good idea for the training droid would have been an attackable but unkillable target so you could tweak your toon by obtaining stats for each power/gear combo ???

P.S. OP don't assume because someone has spent extra on something (CE) they don't think $20 isn't a meaningful amount of money (says me who has no idea how much $20 really is since I work in £ :-p)

I started a similar post sometimes earlier last night and I agree 100% with what is being said.

I knew there would be some vanity items that would be just for show but I was expecting more from some of these items. Especially the Droid.

And for those saying that Deluxe Edition items are not always as advertised or that MMO all do this, I bought the Deluxe Edition of Star Trek Online when it came out and EVERYTHING that came was has advertise and some of these items were useful in the game. So it's not true that you always get lame crap.

Personnally, if I could get a refund for those items I would, anytime.

I love the game but this has really left a bad taste on the experience.