Quit "blaming" CE owners for actually owning a CE

I haven't seen anyone blame a CE owner for anything...what did I miss?

Would you mind awfully providing me with:

Exact numbers of how many Collectors edition were sold
Scientific polling showing exactly what percentage of those bought it on the promise of a regularly updated vendor

To back your assertions please.

I'm not sure where you see any of the CE hate coming from. I haven't noticed it - the only thing I see is was a bit of annoyance at the QQing (as others said) about the exclusive vendor not getting update. I have a CE and quite frankly, if I bought it because of the in-game vendor, that would make me a complete moron. You see, I bought the CE because of the nice stuff I could see was included in the box:

Security Key (the most practical in my view)
Music CD (probably one of my biggest reasons for getting it - exclusive music)
Darth Malgus statue (would of preferred Satele, but it still makes a nice bookend with my Skyriim dragon)
Journal of Master Gnost-Dural (cause an actual physical book I can hold in my hands and look at the pretty pictures is still pretty cool)
Disks in Metal Case (Well, it seems to be the standard in CE versions of games nowadays)
Longspur STAP and VIP bracelet (the only digital items I was interested in, even though they are also part of the digital upgrade pack). They are the most useful digital items for me.

You see, having exclusive access to the vendors, whether it be the Security Key, VIP, or the CE vendors was nice, but ultimately useless in the decision to buy the CE. I like customizing my characters and having useful items for them to wear and use. Without any prior knowledge of what would be on these vendors or even if I would like the look of any of it, it would have been completely stupid of me to base such a purchase decision on something sight unseen. So the fact that the vendors have not been updated is hardly of any consequence to me - again there is no guarantee that I would like anything that would ever be on these vendors or find any of it more useful than anything else in the game, so I ultimately based my purchased decision on what I knew I was getting and the value of that to me was more than enough to justify the cost.

So, to be honest, as a CE owner, I would rather they just leave the vendors as is and put more of the effort in creating art assets into quests and missions in the game (with a few saved for the CM to continue to help fund the game).

BJ

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I am not clamoring for the CE vendor to be updated, just pointing out that EA/BW did state that it would be updated regularly. I personally just want to see the CE vendor and the items he sells remain exclusive to CE owners.

I've not been back on the forums for long, but there is an incredible resentment towards CE-owners, and frankly, I'm not feeling it.

The Collector's Editions were expensive, yes. But they were in high supply for *MONTHS* after release, and there is literally only one reason in the entire world that you don't own one; you didn't want to spend the money. As someone who has been out of work for a while now, I can most certainly understand that.

However, everyone knew the Collector's Edition was going to include an exclusive store. We didn't know what would be available specifically, and on that point, I agree with people being frustrated. However, again, if you actually *wanted* the items available on the CE-store, you could easily have purchased the CE after launch. In fact, at one point they were absurdly cheap, and I saw was as low as $30 new.

So basically, all I'm hearing is a bunch of whining about "Those guys have something I don't, and I don't like it". If these CE's were in short supply, I would totally be on you guys' side, but again, they weren't. Every single one of you had ample time to find out what was included in the CE, and to purchase it, likely even at a discount from pre-order prices. You didn't. That's fine, but don't you dare claim you're entitled to the content I actually *did* pay for.

If you went shopping for a car tomorrow, are you going to buy something economical, or spring for luxury? Frankly, I don't care what you pick, but I can tell you for a fact that you aren't going to purchase a luxury car at an economical price. And again, it's all fair game. And hey, maybe you're really desperate for money, and want a luxury car but can't afford it. That does not give you the right to throw a brick through some other guy's luxury car, though, or break-in and steal his sound-system.

If you don't own a CE, then tough noogies. You had ample opportunities to purchase it, but you didn't. I did. You don't get to access the same content as me because you didn't pay to access that content. I did. I took a gamble that, despite a rough start, this game would get better. You didn't, so you'll forgive me if I'm not terribly sympathetic to the amount of whining

Personally, I wish I hadn't purchased the CE. Like that fancy luxury car, it sounds a lot more fun that it has actually been, and it was certainly pricey. But I did pay for it. If I waste my money of lotto-tickets, while you put yours in a bank, don't come crying to me when I actually win something and you want the same reward.

You really love the word Ample don't you?

But again, the date of that page (10.21.2011) pre-dates the current F2P development environment.

I have a solution that BW is probably considering...

Put some worthwhile stuff in the CE store, and also allow people to upgrade their accounts to CE status.

Doesn't matter. We paid for an advertised service, so BioWare are obligated to provide that service.

It's not like with Makeb/RotHC, where they ended up charging money after initially advertised something as being free. That's actually a legitimate change in direction.

Doesn't matter. We paid for an advertised service, so BioWare are obligated to provide that service.