This makes me sad. (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Friday, August 28, 2015, 18:33 (3472 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Counterpoint: I love my Halsey Journal and think the Reach collectors edition I bought to get it was one of my best video game purchases of all time. I love my Ghost I got with Destiny and in the last week have had a blast showing him off around to the Destiny players at work. And I'm highly anticipating owning a physical Strange Coin and a book annotated by Cayde-6. I get avoiding paying more for digital items that will go away when you move on from a game, but don't think it's fair to label those of us who like physical extras as delusional... :/

He didn't say people who buy them are delusional, he said people who think they'll be worth a significant amount of money are delusional.

I do agree the ultra limited nature of collectors editions is getting a bit silly these days. I had to really scramble to get the TTK collectors edition. It sold out in one day! I'd rather have a collectors edition be available to all fans who want to celebrate a favorite game instead of it being an artificially limited status symbol for some of the fans who managed to move quickly enough...

They're still an artificially limited status symbol though, and instead of just being dependent on time they're dependent on either time or a large-ish amount of money to spend.