I get what he's saying (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Monday, June 22, 2015, 20:06 (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.

The thing is they're not valuing that stuff at $40, they're valuing it at $20. There's a package with just the new expansion that's $40, there's a package with the base game and all three expansions for $60, and there's a package with the base game, all three expansions, and digital and physical swag for $80. They're putting the value of the swag at about $20. What's more interesting is that going by this they're putting of the base game and the first two expansions at about $20 too. Obviously these are package deals so the price is going to be lower, but presumably it's still in the ballpark.
For me, the lesson is don't be an early adopter. In games, in software in general, in tech in general, in products in general, early adopters nearly tend to get screwed. I don't have any of the expansions, and I won't have any of them until I buy the package with all three for the Xbone when it comes out, and I'm glad I waited to see what they were going to say at E3 instead of buying a season pass like I was planning to. The only reason I'm not waiting for the next big package deal after this-- because there will be one-- is that I'm about done waiting.