I get what he's saying (Destiny)

by Leviathan , Hotel Zanzibar, Monday, June 22, 2015, 20:03 (3249 days ago) @ Earendil

It's what I've always thought. People are "upset" because for $40 more, you get the original game and both expansions, and a bunch of cool stuff.

People want that extra stuff like the emotes, but they don't want to "pay for" things they already have. Well, there is another way to look at it, which is that for $40 more you get the following:

Collector's Edition SteelBook™ Case
Modified Treasure Island Book with intro Letter from Cayde-6
Cayde-6's Personal Notes and Illustrations
Collection of Relics and Artifacts
Strange Coin Replica
Three Class Specific Emotes
Three Armor Shaders
Three Exotic Class Items with XP Bonuses

And on top of that, Bungie is tossing in the original game and first two expansions for FREE!
There, now you aren't paying for something you already have.

If that list is not worth $40 to you, than don't buy it. I understand that people may wish that Bungie offered the emotes all by themselves for a fraction of the entire bundle, but that gets dangerously close to Bungie selling things to us for a couple dollars.

Yeah, that's how I've seen it. The core game and the expansions are no longer worth their original price. You can get Destiny new for around $20 online and cheaper used. The relevance of Dark Below and House of Wolves will have greatly diminished by the time Taken King rolls out and won't provide the same kind of experience for those who got it fresh. So they're just bonus to the content you listed.

I don't know what edition I'm getting, but I don't see this as any different then the different overlapping editions Bungie has been putting out for a decade or more.