Dead Space 3

[Collector's Edition]

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[DoctorX]

Dead Space III:
Dev Team Edition:
PS3 & 360 & PC:
NTSC:
Visceral Games:
Release Date:
100 USD And 160 USD with full game:
Limited to 5000:
* 13" SCAF Tin Crate
* 8" Ployresin Black Marker Statue
* Aluminum Data Pad
* Med Pack Water Bottle
* Bound SCAF Jotter
* 3 SCAF Posters
* 6 Peng Postcards
* 96 Page Mini Art Book
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Preorder at http://gear.ea.com/titles/dead-space/dead-space-3-dev-team-edition-add-on.html
Pictures : http://imgur.com/a/j35W8#0 :

[DoctorX]

Every edition comes with numbered metal plate. International delivery also available at EA Store. International delivery cost 40 usd.

[Evilhawk]

i to would although $75 is a mighty steep shipping price

[LowlyAssassin]

I like the themed contents in this pack

[DoctorX]

1899 Left at stock 5 mins ago. Its gonna be sold out pretty, pretty soon.

EDIT : Not sure if that 1899 copies is only a max preorder limit.

[Matt16]

My orders in!! I really like everything about this.

If anyone's wondering, it's just cost me $28 for shipping to the UK.

[motarules]

To Portugal cost me 40 USD. It seems it varies a lot from country to country.

[Letrico]

Great I was waiting for a dead space 3 special edition

Mother of god 99 dollar shipping

[Letrico]

what the hell no shipping to australia?

Oh what the one with game cost 99 shipping. add on itself is 43...

[Letrico]

The box is quite huge..

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Video:

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[tonybsg]

Ordered! Been waiting for a DS3 Limited Edition!

[thefunk007]

Order locked in!

[thefunk007]

1820 left now

[Letrico]

I still dont understand why the bundle including game cost 56 dollar more for shipping.

[SwiftDeath]

I still dont understand why the bundle including game cost 56 dollar more for shipping.

While I do think that's utterly ridiculous, it's more than likely due to the fact that the game and CE/Dev Team edition ships separately

So basically they're saying it costs them 56 dollars to ship a standard sized game to Australia which again is dumb :hammer:

I would recommend just getting the add-on version as it's pretty much made for your scenario

[Viridius]

anyone know if EA take payment stright away or when the item ships?

[thefunk007]

Yeah I added the edition + the game in the first instance, but the price without the game was only $28 - you can get the game easily enough anyhow so I am not worried.

Although customs might hurt a little :-/

[Madigan]

Wow this is fucking nice, thanks for sharing it

[evilvort3x]

my question..... is it 5000 ADD ON ALONE or 5000 of each if that makes sense? like 5000 with ps3 etc etc

[Solemn_In_Berlin]

^ I think it's add-on alone since getting it plus the game of your platform of choice is just an option.

[thefunk007]

5000 total!

[thefunk007]

1780 left
1769 left
1760 left
1750 left

Selling really fast!

[SwiftDeath]

1780 left
1769 left
1760 left
1750 left

Selling really fast!

Where do you see the number remaining?

[thefunk007]

1730 left - you put that amount in your basket mate!

[SwiftDeath]

Ahhh tricksy :)

Wow this things been up for only a couple of hours most likely and it's already 2/3's gone

Going to be fun watching this one tick down

Already got my order in of course

[thefunk007]

Yeah same here, glad I stayed up late :-P

[SwiftDeath]

Nvm Ignore this post

[motarules]

No, there are 1684 still available for pre order at this moment.

[SwiftDeath]

No, there are 1684 still available for pre order at this moment.

Yeah may have still had 1750 or so in my cart :rotf:

Still though it will sell out soon I imagine

[motarules]

Yes, and expect to see this on ebay pretty soon in a massive scale. They are being too nice for resellers, they are offering free postage if you purchase 100 or more units.

[SwiftDeath]

Yes, and expect to see this on ebay pretty soon in a massive scale. They are being too nice for resellers, they are offering free postage if you purchase 100 or more units.

Yea i was debating about taking out a loan and buying the whole lot but then I realized how much work that would be :rotf:

jk I wonder how this one will sell on ebay if so many resellers buy them all up

[mosavon]

So anyone know what the deposit cost is?

[SwiftDeath]

As I said before I don't know what the deposit cost is

It may have been the full 100 USD + shipping

Also stock is now at 1654 copies

[mosavon]

Lol i added 2,000 to cart and got shipping quote of 20 grand, what ever happened to combined shipping :rotf:

[SwiftDeath]

Lol i added 2,000 to cart and got shipping quote of 20 grand, what ever happened to combined shipping :rotf:

lol there is a free shipping option if you buy more than a 100 copies

Maybe just for US buyers

But when I add 1600 copies, I get two shipping options:

Shipping Method
UPS Ground $16,000.00

Free Shipping
Free $0.00

Hmmm do I pay the 16000 shipping or go for the free option?

[mosavon]

Lol decisions decisions :think:

[SwiftDeath]

1601 left last I checked.......

[MortalMonday]

Picked up a couple to trade or sell, and I also picked one up for myself. Too bad they made so many. Should'vee been limited to 1k just like original DS Ultra LE. I remember when the original came out. I bought so many of them. I sold them each for between 300 and 500. That was a pretty sweet score.

Thanks swift for the head's up!

[Sebye]

Anyone know if there's official word whether or whether not there's anything unique about the copy of the game if you ship with the game? Also, remaining stock numbers on Dev Edition standard and Add-on are different.

[SwiftDeath]

Thanks swift for the head's up!

You're welcome, Mortal :thumb:

Anyone know if there's official word whether or whether not there's anything unique about the copy of the game if you ship with the game? Also, remaining stock numbers on Dev Edition standard and Add-on are different.

States that the game comes with the following DLC:

?DLC: First Contact bundle (includes the First Contact Suit and Negotiator weapon for precise dismemberment)
?DLC: Witness the Truth bundle (includes the Witness the Truth suit and tactical Evangelizer weapon)

Which is the exact same DLC that gamestop is offering. So I don't believe there is anything unique about the game itself

About the remaining stock thing. I think that the add-on CE only stock shows the real stock remaining and that they might take that number and divide it by 3 for each system (I.E. have about 500 copies available for each system right now)

Of course that's just my thoughts :think:

Also down to 1545 copies left

[scourdx]

Place an order. I order the addon only. Hopefully will pick up the game later.

[comaamen86]

big meh, i am sure it will be limited but add in the game and its a lot of money for what you get, as i dont buy to sell i'll pass

[Undeadbonez]

I got my copy!

[CrixDoomsday]

Anyone doing grup buy or something?
Any idea how much to ship to poland?
Im interested in DEAD SPACE 3 DEV-TEAM EDITION ADD-ON (without game).
Got also question - they ship international or not? And u have to pay now or before release?

[OniRyo]

Anyone doing grup buy or something?
Any idea how much to ship to poland?
Im interested in DEAD SPACE 3 DEV-TEAM EDITION ADD-ON (without game).
Got also question - they ship international or not? And u have to pay now or before release?

I have just ordered it from the website and the delivery costs costed me 40 dollars to the Netherlands, and i think that's pretty nice for the weight and size actually, so if you can you should just order it from the website.

[Undeadbonez]

MortalMonday bought a few to trade or sell, ask him. They charged me 110USD instantly.

[MortalMonday]

Yeah, but I'm gonna try to flip them or trade them for something nice. I can't sell at cost just yet.

[Undeadbonez]

Ah I understand, sorry to put you on the spot, just trying to help out with information on this.

[MortalMonday]

No, that's OK. I can't really do a group buy right now anyway, so I wouldn't have been available to help this time.

[vhal_x]

Argh, I don't get paid until next Monday. Fuuuuuuck xx

[Biggav4000]

Ordered a couple thanks ,for the heads up swifty :thumb:

[Emzze]

I ordered one :rotf: :swoon:

[OniRyo]

Seems this item is really quite wanted, i like it!.

There are about 1420 left now, wouldn't be surprised if this is sold out on Sunday.

[CrixDoomsday]

Anyone got contact with bbki but not via PM or mail?

[Sylfaris]

god damn i waited like months for a edition like this .... 99$ shipping grrr i hate you *ordered* for 256 $x_x

[MortalMonday]

When did this go up for sale exactly?

[Letrico]

god damn i waited like months for a edition like this .... 99$ shipping grrr i hate you *ordered* for 256 $x_x

Dont buy together with the game. The game adds 56 dollar into shipping

[OniRyo]

If you're in a huge collecting mood and want the game together with it, just buy the Gamestop version imo, since it comes with a steelbook.

[adam1289]

I ordered one but how do you check how many are left?

[thefunk007]

Read further back dude

[thefunk007]

I am wondering if the game comes packaged separately anyway, I think it does so I don't see much point in getting the actual game at this point.

[Dreamcazman]

I ordered a couple, thanks for the heads up. :thumb:

AFAIK there are still more than 500 left, added that to my cart but wasn't willing to shell out 50 grand! :P

[OniRyo]

I ordered a couple, thanks for the heads up. :thumb:

AFAIK there are still more than 300 left, added that to my cart but wasn't willing to shell out 30 grand! :P

There are around 1340 still left, probably won't be sold out untill Sunday.

[adam1289]

657 left, selling quickly.

[Ayiu]

what a shame that they take money straight away. Shipping to Germany would be only 40$ just for the Add-On box. Sounds fair to me.

Will probably leave out on this I'm also not a big fan of those "chest" editions.

A lot of them showing up recently :scratch:

[OniRyo]

657 left, selling quickly.

657? I can still put around 1340 in my basket!.

[Lupind]

Trying to Pre-Order it without the Game..
Checking Shipping to my Country.....$75
Forget it :surrender:

[adam1289]

657? I can still put around 1340 in my basket!.

Yeah I can put that many in the basket but at the top is says that the requested quantity is not available.

[thefunk007]

Yeah theres 1328 left

[DoctorX]

Remember back in the days, people complained about preorder price of Ultra Limited Dead Space 1 Edition... History repeats itself, so i suggest ordering this ASAP to avoid misery of missing one of holy grails of collectables. Original ULE was limited to 1K Editions, but this is 5K all numbered. Payment is taken when edition is shipped. I dont know what is the case paying via paypal.

[LowlyAssassin]

Well it just let me add 1200 to my cart so still alot left

[thefunk007]

And so it begins: http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEAD-SPACE-3-DEV-TEAM-EDITION-COLLECTOR-5000-ONLY-NO-GAME-ADD-ON-XBOX-PS3-PC-NEW-/160954325989?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2579a01be5

[thefunk007]

Well it just let me add 1200 to my cart so still alot left

That's correct but there were 5,000 less than 24 hours ago!

[LowlyAssassin]

What there was how many available 24 hours ago?
I think there may be a lot more available I'll check

[comaamen86]

still dont regret ever trying to get dead space ultra may be rare as rocking horse sheet, does not make me want it anymore than i did anyway

done currency conversion 85 gbp with shipping than uk le game exclusive game 44.99 hardback guide 19.99= 150 give or take

tomb raider ce (with play arts figure) 59 gbp controller 39.99 guide 15.99 = 116

i dont the way they done this dead space kit last minute to get everyone hyped and paying at short notice all very expensive for not amazing content ea can blow me on this one

[LowlyAssassin]

still dont regret ever trying to get dead space ultra may be rare as rocking horse sheet, does not make me want it anymore than i did anyway

done currency conversion 85 gbp with shipping than uk le game exclusive game 44.99 hardback guide 19.99= 150 give or take

tomb raider ce (with play arts figure) 59 gbp controller 39.99 guide 15.99 = 116

i dont the way they done this dead space kit last minute to get everyone hyped and paying at short notice all very expensive for not amazing content ea can blow me on this one

You forgot to add 20-25% import tax and duties

[Matt16]

I paid with paypal and received an email saying they would take payment once the item was shipped but I've checked my account and the full amount has gone out already.

[Cosmic_Link]

I paid with paypal and received an email saying they would take payment once the item was shipped but I've checked my account and the full amount has gone out already.

Payment is always immediate with paypal payments.

[MortalMonday]

Guys, Treehouse always takes full payment upfront, unless specifically stated otherwise.

[vhal_x]

Yeah, they say it's a full refundable deposit. Which means that you pay the full price as a deposit, but if you change your mind before it ships, you can cancel for a refund. Once it's shipped/in shipping process though, that's another matter entirely xx

[comaamen86]

http://gear.ea.com/media/catalog/product/cache/25/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/g/a/game-ce-ds-ds3devteam-bottle.jpg

looks like a pimped up maximuscle water bottle i am so dissapointed in this tin for so many reasons

[thefunk007]

Around 1,200 left now!

[mosavon]

Ordered aswell through a friend, thanks for alerting us to this :)

1163 left!

[thefunk007]

Ordered aswell through a friend, thanks for alerting us to this :)

1163 left!

Why through a friend mate?

[mosavon]

Oh, yeah because he send's things ongoing, this way a little cheaper shipping now and no customs later aswell, he will ship it later with my other pile of stuff :beach:

[thefunk007]

Ah yes, not looking forward to customs but hey ho!

[mosavon]

Way i look at is the money i save here can be put to my shipment later, i'm not in a rush for it.

[CrixDoomsday]

Ordered one for myself :D Im so happy.

[mosavon]

I wonder how much business they got from this site lol :D

[MortalMonday]

Did they sell all of those in one day? If so, that's pretty freakin nuts.

[Undeadbonez]

I just know that when this finally gets to my house, there better not be a single fucking scratch, dent, out of place, or missing item, or I will explode with anger.

[thefunk007]

Yeah am concerned about international shipment + tax but not got any choice!

[SwiftDeath]

Stock is at 1085 right now


looks like a pimped up maximuscle water bottle i am so dissapointed in this tin for so many reasons

Yeah really not a fan of that water bottle myself

I mean for this price they could of made a nicer metal canteen like thing

I know I'm nitpicky but these items are supposed to fit into the fiction of Dead Space. Wouldn't you want a airtight, watertight water bottle in case you have to space walk at some point in time?

I mean imagine this thing in zero grav and tell me honestly if you think it's not going to be spilling the entire time?

To be honest though what REALLY bothers me is that damn "art book"

I mean come on 100 USD just on the CE stuff and you can't produce an art book similar to Skyrim or the Witcher II

Skyrim's CE cost 150 USD at retail and EA would have you believe that the game costs 60 at launch with purchase of the CE SO Bethesda with 90 USD managed to produce a rather large and detailed dragon statue, a kickass full-size leather art book and the CE packaging. Honestly most of the stuff in this doesn't look very expensive to make so little disappointed there

I mean in this day and age can these expensive CE's maybe not include the cheapest looking art books known to man?

Just my thoughts of course

Ordered aswell through a friend, thanks for alerting us to this :)[QUOTE]

You're welcome buddy :thumb:

[QUOTE=Undeadbonez;98788]I just know that when this finally gets to my house, there better not be a single fucking scratch, dent, out of place, or missing item, or I will explode with anger.

Same here buddy same here

[mosavon]

Either the stock levels are wrong or this is selling real fast, hopefully the latter lol

[Biggav4000]

I know a lot of members from here ordered this today so let's hope its going fast,would have been good if it was limited to a 1000 like the first one though.

[mosavon]

True but Dead Space has grown since then and the fanbase would not merit just 1000 units unfortunately.

[Venner]

I have ordered this myself today without the game, as much as i want to open it mine is going to stay sealed

[MortalMonday]

That is if it even comes sealed. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't ship sealed. Treehouse loves cutting corners.

[gu8]

how much do you reckon we will get shagged on the customs on this?

[thefunk007]

Less than 999 left now

[Treehouse_Ryan]

Hi all. I work at Treehouse and was responsible for parts of this project....

First off, I just want to say that we're fans of this site and went through a lot of it during planning for the Reckoning CEs and this one. It's been fun to see what you guys have to say about what we did, and that you have such an active community for such a specialized segment of the gaming space is impressive, and really cool.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you, and chime in on a couple questions that seem to come up a few times, and also make myself available to you guys if you have any other specific questions. I don't want to make myself a nuisance, so I'll only post again if asked to. You guys obviously have a comfortable and good thing going without any official involvement, so I'm not trying to mess that up.

Some answers/justifications:

* There are only 5,000 made, across all configurations. Whether it includes a 360 game, PS3 game, PC game, or no game, the total of all units made is 5,000. We're going to split them up based on how they sell, but I can tell you the initial stock released was 2,000 for the set with no game and a little under 3,000 distributed between the versions with games (holding some back for Visceral folks, etc). So when someone says only 600 left and someone else says 1500 left, you're probably looking at different versions. The total adds up to 5,000, so you'd have to load up your cart with every configuration to get the full picture. To save you the time, we were at about 1700 sold this morning (total, across all versions).

* Shipping is tough. I know it's rough to pay a lot of money for something that you can't actually use or play with, but we're subsidizing our actual costs here. We spent two weeks going back and forth with different rates and timings and how much of it we could discount from one column in order to make the total at checkout less offensive. Between actual postage and the additional fees our warehousing company is charging us for some of the stuff going on here, we'll be losing money on shipping on just about every order. I still think it sucks that we have to charge you what we are, but if it makes it any easier to swallow, we're absolutely not trying to make money off you on shipping. There are some countries with a $75 rate. We were actually quoted $100 as a kind of blanket fee for "everywhere else", but I made our operations guy change it to $75. I know that's still crazy high, but if you live in one of those countries, I imagined it wouldn't be terrible for us to take a little more of a loss to send you something you might not have as much ordinary access to, and I assumed we would be talking about a fairly small segment of interested parties. (If I'm way off base and you live in a country that is being charged $75 and you don't normally pay near that much for large boxes, message me and tell me if there's a shipping method that works better for you that we've not explored and we'll look into it for the future.)

* The $99 international shipping with the game is meant to be a deterrent, and $56 extra for shipping the game later is obviously not based on real ship rates. There are contractual issues with shipping Region 1 games outside of Region 1, so we opted for disincentivizing people with higher shipping fees, rather than throwing a nondescript error at checkout (which was our only other option given the limitiations of our platform and the time we had to work out something custom). If you're in a country that is seeing $99 for shipping, you should be buying the Add-On and getting your game from someone else.

* The Tins are arriving at our warehouse pre-packaged. There are some printed cardboard inserts to keep things in place and everything is nested pretty solidly. Damage during shipping is always a risk, but missing items is [hopefully] unlikely, and damage to multiple items is very unlikely (barring some freak forklift puncture, etc). We're doing our best to make sure it shows up intact and is nicer than you're expecting. I know a lot of the items themselves are sealed, but I don't recall if the tin itself is. I'll double check on that....

* We based the price-point off the great Borderlands 2 edition with the loot chest, but we thought our stuff was a little nicer made (but, we would, I suppose). The marker is really nice in person, and the journal feels like something special. And the flip-book is difficult to describe or picture accurately, but is probably the most expensive item we produced. We tried to pack in as much production value as possible, and hopefully you'll be really impressed when you get it. Also, regarding other comparisons, keep in mind that most of those were dealing with radically different economies of scale. Making 150,000 of something is really a whole lot cheaper per item than making only 5,000 of something.

* We work with EA (and other companies) to make official products, and the store we run and host is under their domain, but we are not EA. I know it sounds like marketing nonsense, but we really are just a handful of gaming nerds that like working on video game stuff. We made something we thought we could be proud of, and while we have to make enough money to keep the lights on and keep making things, we didn't do it for the money. Yes, it's more expensive than the $20 extra a lot of CEs cost, but we didn't want to make a few bucks worth of uninteresting stuff. I personally think it's a pretty good value (the unfortunate realities of international shipping aside), and really like how everything came out. It's more than a casual fan should be expected to pay, for sure, but we didn't make it for the casual fan....

* Payment will be charged at time of purchase. This sucks, and we're actively looking into better ways of handling this, but for limited items with long lead times, it's a sticky situation. If we don't collect the money up front, it's easy to have someone just tie up all the inventory and not intend to actually pay for it, etc. Plus, we have to pay for the items up front, so if we get X orders of something, and order accordingly, we're stuck with a bunch of dead inventory if half of them cancel. It's partly to protect people that want limited items, and it's partly to protect ourselves, but it still kind of sucks and we're looking into better ways all the time.

* Please note that the picture of the bottle posted above is our prototype. We're photographing the final one properly early this week, but you can see a less-fancy photo of it on the single-page site. The molding looks like that photo, but the final materials are less blatantly plastic-looking.

Alright, I've disrupted this thread enough. If anyone wants any other details, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer you. Thanks again for caring so much about collector's editions, and thanks especially to everyone that picked up one of ours. We're really interested in making more and better editions this year, so we'll be paying attention to what you all say.

[comaamen86]

how much do you reckon we will get shagged on the customs on this?

yes the package will turn up with bailiffs also am i the only 1 not the slightest bit intrested in this?

i refuse to like it if someone wants to send me one to proove me wrong though......

[thefunk007]

Thanks for chiming in Ryan I personally appreciate the effort put in to your post. I will ignore the order quantities and thanks for providing an updated sold amount.

The shipping rate to the UK I can't argue about as in my opinion it's extremely cheap, my only concern is tax, but not much can be done about that!

[comaamen86]

[QUOTE=Treehouse_Ryan;98842

Alright, I've disrupted this thread enough. If anyone wants any other details, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer you. Thanks again for caring so much about collector's editions, and thanks especially to everyone that picked up one of ours. We're really interested in making more and better editions this year, so we'll be paying attention to what you all say.[/QUOTE]

although it does not appeal to me, well done on doing a ce fans might enjoy bit odd although i am sure they will sell knocking them out so soon after xmas and so short before release really gives the fans time to get the money together

which only looking from auk perspective when tax is added between 100 t0 110 for a ce with no game add the game could be up to 155 rough conversion
155 gbp or225 dollars think that blows borderland loot chest out of the water

[evilvort3x]

Hello Treehouse Ryan. Question if you could answer , If the CE is brought with the game itself? will it be sealed and same question if brought without? will it be sealed on the outside? as most people as you have stated have brought it without the game as $99 international shipping is over the top. just wondering if there is a difference. Please let us know ASAP..

[Madigan]

Hey Ryan, thanks for posting on this thread, It's good to have guys from the industry here.

I think the shipping cost is fine in general. For example in the bioware store the shipping costs are more reasonable now, so thanks for that.



Offtopic: Hey Ryan, try to move your contacts and release a fem shep litho signed by jennifer hale :D I know the Mass Effect comunity in general wants something related to her. :D

[mosavon]

Thank you for the informative post, i may have missed it but does the box have any space for a game to be inserted? is the game just shipping OUTSIDE the box of the edition?

Again if i missed that, sorry...i have ordered regardless, looks great and way better than Borderlands Loot Ediiton

[Treehouse_Ryan]

although it does not appeal to me, well done on doing a ce fans might enjoy bit odd although i am sure they will sell knocking them out so soon after xmas and so short before release really gives the fans time to get the money together

which only looking from auk perspective when tax is added between 100 t0 110 for a ce with no game add the game could be up to 155 rough conversion
155 gbp or225 dollars think that blows borderland loot chest out of the water

Our first day for announcing was December 20th, but we couldn't get the video done in time and Visceral folks have been super busy ramping up for game launch. But it didn't make sense to start things off without their involvement, since they had such a big hand in how the thing came together, so we just kept pushing. We'd like to have had more time and notice, too....

My memory of the Ultimate Loot Chest was that it was $160, but in checking the main site, it's shown as $150. Ours is $160, so maybe we're off a bit, but we can only match pricing on features and what's included. That 2K could leverage international distribution better at the full scale of that edition is relevant to your purchasing decision, but not something we can really account for.

Hello Treehouse Ryan. Question if you could answer , If the CE is brought with the game itself? will it be sealed and same question if brought without? will it be sealed on the outside? as most people as you have stated have brought it without the game as $99 international shipping is over the top. just wondering if there is a difference. Please let us know ASAP..

The Tins with the goodies will always be shipped separately from the game. No one will get a version of this with the game inside it. Whether you purchase the Add-On or the edition with the game, you'll get the same box of contents. The edition with the game also includes a second shipment with just the game, but is otherwise identical.

[mosavon]

Thanks that's me answered, thanks again :D

[evilvort3x]

ok so regardless its the same for everybody. thats good to hear then :). Thanks for that ryan. :)

[MortalMonday]

So the game itself is just a standard edition copy of the game? Nothing unique about the game itself, like alternate box art, steelbook, Digipak, that sort of thing? Thanks.

[Treehouse_Ryan]

Thank you for the informative post, i may have missed it but does the box have any space for a game to be inserted? is the game just shipping OUTSIDE the box of the edition?

Again if i missed that, sorry...i have ordered regardless, looks great and way better than Borderlands Loot Ediiton

When we designed the size of the Tin, I know we included space for the game in a complicated Tetris-like use of its internal space. I was not present when we did the full unboxing of our copy of the edition, but I'm sure there is room for putting a jewel case in there somewhere. I don't know if the specific place we figured out initially is still present because there was a period of time where it looked like we wouldn't be able to sell the game. Regardless, the packing of the contents in the Tin was meant to minimize space and safeguard the goodies for transit, so putting everything back in wasn't really on anyone's mind.... This seems like an obvious oversight now, but the idea was that the stuff was a little more useful than your normal CE includes, so in our heads we imagined you'd actually take the stuff out and have it on your desk/person/shelf/whatever.

I'll see how well I can box our copy back up with a game inside it on Monday and report back.

[comaamen86]

fair enough cant argue with the answers, good luck with the ce sure it will sell well

[tonybsg]

Ryan, thanx for the detailed post!

Do you have a shipping estimate?

When you say "by ground" in the description, XPO International Parcel is not air mail?

Also, PLEASE, put an additional effort to package the tin the best way possible.

[Treehouse_Ryan]

So the game itself is just a standard edition copy of the game? Nothing unique about the game itself, like alternate box art, steelbook, Digipak, that sort of thing? Thanks.

There is absolutely nothing special about our copies of the game. We have access to the standard Origin DLC (as has been noted already), and everything else is identical to what you'd get somewhere else.

From an industry perspective, getting exclusive DLC is a monumentally big ask. The giant retailers can do it on account of their size and numbers, but it's a very expensive thing to develop and work out for the kinds of numbers we would do.... We always ask, but it hasn't ever happened.

We're working on an unannounced store to launch next month(-ish), and apparently we have access for the first time to some DLC that will be only available through us. It is not related to a CE, though, and I know literally nothing else specific about it. (I don't mean to tease, but it's an exciting thing to finally have access to!)

If this Dead Space edition does as well as we hope, we're optimisitic that our next ones will only be bigger and better-supported with more exclusives than just what we produced.

This is something we take seriously, and we've had some talks with other copmanies about what kinds of boundaries we can push with future CEs, so my fingers are crossed that something neat like this can happen eventually.

[ElectronicElation]

(sighs) I picked one up too. I really need to get a job as like. . . an astronaut/president/Oil tycoon to collect anymore! LoL

[mosavon]

When we designed the size of the Tin, I know we included space for the game in a complicated Tetris-like use of its internal space. I was not present when we did the full unboxing of our copy of the edition, but I'm sure there is room for putting a jewel case in there somewhere. I don't know if the specific place we figured out initially is still present because there was a period of time where it looked like we wouldn't be able to sell the game. Regardless, the packing of the contents in the Tin was meant to minimize space and safeguard the goodies for transit, so putting everything back in wasn't really on anyone's mind.... This seems like an obvious oversight now, but the idea was that the stuff was a little more useful than your normal CE includes, so in our heads we imagined you'd actually take the stuff out and have it on your desk/person/shelf/whatever.

I'll see how well I can box our copy back up with a game inside it on Monday and report back.

Well mine wont be seeing the light of day so no drama on functionality for me.

(sighs) I picked one up too. I really need to get a job as like. . . an astronaut/president/Oil tycoon to collect anymore! LoL

Yeah i know what you mean this month has been seriously expensive already.

[Treehouse_Ryan]

Ryan, thanx for the detailed post!

Do you have a shipping estimate?

When you say "by ground" in the description, XPO International Parcel is not air mail?

Also, PLEASE, put an additional effort to package the tin the best way possible.

Fair point. "Ground" in that case just means "not expedited", which really means "not super expensively".

I'm told our warehouse is set to receive the tins on the 21st. They'll have to be checked in, inventoried, inspected, etc, and then boxed up and shipped off to you all. We hedged and said by the 28th, but we're pretty sure it'll be appreciably sooner than that.

When your actual box ships to your actual address, we'll be able to tell you what the estimated delivery date is and whether there is a tracking number (not usually for international, but sometimes we have some extra info if you email customer service). Fair warning: we've been having trouble with a terrible bug where shipping confirmations are not reliably being sent. I built this as a stop-gap while we continue you track that nasty regression down: http://treehousebrandstores.com/wheresmystuff/ (but this will do no one here any good until at least the 22nd or 23rd, so please to be not hammering the form)

I haven't seen how the Tin will be packaged in the box that goes out, but the people that are in charge of that care very much about not wrecking your nice new things, so I'm sure it will be as safe as is practical. I'll see if I can get some more details on how that will look when everyone is back in the office.

[tonybsg]

Fair point. "Ground" in that case just means "not expedited", which really means "not super expensively".

I'm told our warehouse is set to receive the tins on the 21st. They'll have to be checked in, inventoried, inspected, etc, and then boxed up and shipped off to you all. We hedged and said by the 28th, but we're pretty sure it'll be appreciably sooner than that.

When your actual box ships to your actual address, we'll be able to tell you what the estimated delivery date is and whether there is a tracking number (not usually for international, but sometimes we have some extra info if you email customer service). Fair warning: we've been having trouble with a terrible bug where shipping confirmations are not reliably being sent. I built this as a stop-gap while we continue you track that nasty regression down: http://treehousebrandstores.com/wheresmystuff/ (but this will do no one here any good until at least the 22nd or 23rd, so please to be not hammering the form)

Ok, I think that covers it, thank you! :ok:


I haven't seen how the Tin will be packaged in the box that goes out, but the people that are in charge of that care very much about not wrecking your nice new things, so I'm sure it will be as safe as is practical. I'll see if I can get some more details on how that will look when everyone is back in the office.

No need to be practical, put additional cardboard boxes, bubblewrap, you name it, everything is good! :D

[themidlandmaster]

Hi all. I work at Treehouse and was responsible for parts of this project....

First off, I just want to say that we're fans of this site and went through a lot of it during planning for the Reckoning CEs and this one. It's been fun to see what you guys have to say about what we did, and that you have such an active community for such a specialized segment of the gaming space is impressive, and really cool.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you, and chime in on a couple questions that seem to come up a few times, and also make myself available to you guys if you have any other specific questions. I don't want to make myself a nuisance, so I'll only post again if asked to. You guys obviously have a comfortable and good thing going without any official involvement, so I'm not trying to mess that up.

Some answers/justifications:

* There are only 5,000 made, across all configurations. Whether it includes a 360 game, PS3 game, PC game, or no game, the total of all units made is 5,000. We're going to split them up based on how they sell, but I can tell you the initial stock released was 2,000 for the set with no game and a little under 3,000 distributed between the versions with games (holding some back for Visceral folks, etc). So when someone says only 600 left and someone else says 1500 left, you're probably looking at different versions. The total adds up to 5,000, so you'd have to load up your cart with every configuration to get the full picture. To save you the time, we were at about 1700 sold this morning (total, across all versions).

* Shipping is tough. I know it's rough to pay a lot of money for something that you can't actually use or play with, but we're subsidizing our actual costs here. We spent two weeks going back and forth with different rates and timings and how much of it we could discount from one column in order to make the total at checkout less offensive. Between actual postage and the additional fees our warehousing company is charging us for some of the stuff going on here, we'll be losing money on shipping on just about every order. I still think it sucks that we have to charge you what we are, but if it makes it any easier to swallow, we're absolutely not trying to make money off you on shipping. There are some countries with a $75 rate. We were actually quoted $100 as a kind of blanket fee for "everywhere else", but I made our operations guy change it to $75. I know that's still crazy high, but if you live in one of those countries, I imagined it wouldn't be terrible for us to take a little more of a loss to send you something you might not have as much ordinary access to, and I assumed we would be talking about a fairly small segment of interested parties. (If I'm way off base and you live in a country that is being charged $75 and you don't normally pay near that much for large boxes, message me and tell me if there's a shipping method that works better for you that we've not explored and we'll look into it for the future.)

* The $99 international shipping with the game is meant to be a deterrent, and $56 extra for shipping the game later is obviously not based on real ship rates. There are contractual issues with shipping Region 1 games outside of Region 1, so we opted for disincentivizing people with higher shipping fees, rather than throwing a nondescript error at checkout (which was our only other option given the limitiations of our platform and the time we had to work out something custom). If you're in a country that is seeing $99 for shipping, you should be buying the Add-On and getting your game from someone else.

* The Tins are arriving at our warehouse pre-packaged. There are some printed cardboard inserts to keep things in place and everything is nested pretty solidly. Damage during shipping is always a risk, but missing items is [hopefully] unlikely, and damage to multiple items is very unlikely (barring some freak forklift puncture, etc). We're doing our best to make sure it shows up intact and is nicer than you're expecting. I know a lot of the items themselves are sealed, but I don't recall if the tin itself is. I'll double check on that....

* We based the price-point off the great Borderlands 2 edition with the loot chest, but we thought our stuff was a little nicer made (but, we would, I suppose). The marker is really nice in person, and the journal feels like something special. And the flip-book is difficult to describe or picture accurately, but is probably the most expensive item we produced. We tried to pack in as much production value as possible, and hopefully you'll be really impressed when you get it. Also, regarding other comparisons, keep in mind that most of those were dealing with radically different economies of scale. Making 150,000 of something is really a whole lot cheaper per item than making only 5,000 of something.

* We work with EA (and other companies) to make official products, and the store we run and host is under their domain, but we are not EA. I know it sounds like marketing nonsense, but we really are just a handful of gaming nerds that like working on video game stuff. We made something we thought we could be proud of, and while we have to make enough money to keep the lights on and keep making things, we didn't do it for the money. Yes, it's more expensive than the $20 extra a lot of CEs cost, but we didn't want to make a few bucks worth of uninteresting stuff. I personally think it's a pretty good value (the unfortunate realities of international shipping aside), and really like how everything came out. It's more than a casual fan should be expected to pay, for sure, but we didn't make it for the casual fan....

* Payment will be charged at time of purchase. This sucks, and we're actively looking into better ways of handling this, but for limited items with long lead times, it's a sticky situation. If we don't collect the money up front, it's easy to have someone just tie up all the inventory and not intend to actually pay for it, etc. Plus, we have to pay for the items up front, so if we get X orders of something, and order accordingly, we're stuck with a bunch of dead inventory if half of them cancel. It's partly to protect people that want limited items, and it's partly to protect ourselves, but it still kind of sucks and we're looking into better ways all the time.

* Please note that the picture of the bottle posted above is our prototype. We're photographing the final one properly early this week, but you can see a less-fancy photo of it on the single-page site. The molding looks like that photo, but the final materials are less blatantly plastic-looking.

Alright, I've disrupted this thread enough. If anyone wants any other details, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer you. Thanks again for caring so much about collector's editions, and thanks especially to everyone that picked up one of ours. We're really interested in making more and better editions this year, so we'll be paying attention to what you all say.

Wow, that's so cool you guys contact us directly!

Would it be possible to combine shipping on several orders to Australia in order to same money? I've done this in the past when ordering Bioshock stuff

[I_BE_WILL]

Orders to Australia seems to just go up $43 per copy of the add on.

[Undeadbonez]

745 left!

[themidlandmaster]

Orders to Australia seems to just go up $43 per copy of the add on.

Yeah, I'm hoping that's just a placeholder price and combined postage would actually be cheaper

[MortalMonday]

About 2,725 remaining as of about a minute or two ago.

[mosavon]

That's pretty crazy huh? half the stock in a matter of what a day or so? i think this is going to be a gem.

[MortalMonday]

Sorry, I made a mistake above. I went through the numbers a few minutes ago, and the system tells me that there are about 2,725 pieces remaining; which means that about 2,275 have been sold.

That's still pretty damn impressive. I'm sure this will sell out soon enough.

[SwiftDeath]

That's pretty crazy huh? half the stock in a matter of what a day or so? i think this is going to be a gem.

I ruddy hope so as I was yelling at everybody to get them before there gone and there's still stock left sigh

[mosavon]

The fact this is a pay upfront transaction makes it all the more impressive imo, that and the fact Treehouse_Ryan announced that 1700 had sold earlier this evening and now its about 500 more just a few hours later.

[xpl0sive]

Really liking this. Wish more companies would put out CE's like this that are actually limited and numbered and come with decent stuff.

[Sebye]

Thanks to Treehouse Ryan, this thread just became "The Making of" bonus of the Dead Space 3 Dev Team Edition. Super excited now!

[Undeadbonez]

It's only letting me put 701 into my cart. So there must be only 701 left.

[Treehouse_Ryan]

Yeah, I'm hoping that's just a placeholder price and combined postage would actually be cheaper

It was my understanding that we weren't able to efficiently combine these things into larger boxes with multiples, so the linear escalation of the shipping rate is actually intentional since we're expecting to be shipping them separately and therefore paying multiples of postage ourselves.

I know that's kind of a bummer, so I will ask for additional confirmation on this and if there are exceptions to be made, we'll try to sort it out....

<nice things>

Also, thanks for all the kind words everyone. I'm more than happy to be able to contribute something here, and am very glad some of you are as excited about this as we are.

[Ryaku]

bought 3 copies !!! \o/

Very good collector !

[OniRyo]

675 copies left!.

If it goes like yesterday it will be sold out today.

[StyX]

Just bought it right now. Bought the Add On version (without the game) which makes it 140$ in total which I think is a good price for something which is limited to 5000 pieces and you can?t buy anywhere else.

[MortalMonday]

Approximate remaining stock breakdown:

544-PS3
685-PC
955-Xbox
649-Standalone

[OniRyo]

Approximate remaining stock breakdown:

544-PS3
685-PC
955-Xbox
649-Standalone

I thought it was just a standalone version, guess it will be bundles with these games anyways then? If not, why would these Dev Team Editions be sold in this way?.

[vhal_x]

I'm guessing they split it up due to how many copies of the games they have, but if all of the "add-on" copies sell out, I imagine they'll remove some of the games, and add more stock to the "add-on" part, as they said that they'd prefer people to buy the add-on instead of the copies with game xx

[OniRyo]

I'm guessing they split it up due to how many copies of the games they have, but if all of the "add-on" copies sell out, I imagine they'll remove some of the games, and add more stock to the "add-on" part, as they said that they'd prefer people to buy the add-on instead of the copies with game xx

That could be the reason, we'll see when the standalone version is sold out, did you get your pre-order yet, Vhal?.

[themidlandmaster]

It was my understanding that we weren't able to efficiently combine these things into larger boxes with multiples, so the linear escalation of the shipping rate is actually intentional since we're expecting to be shipping them separately and therefore paying multiples of postage ourselves.

I know that's kind of a bummer, so I will ask for additional confirmation on this and if there are exceptions to be made, we'll try to sort it out....



Also, thanks for all the kind words everyone. I'm more than happy to be able to contribute something here, and am very glad some of you are as excited about this as we are.

Ah, that's a shame :(

Still, looking forward to this arriving!

[Matrix6]

I like this CE, and I like this idea.
I've thought about this long ago, where developers/publishers offer the CE individually without the game so that we may have the option/choice of the CE we want instead of having to purchase every variations and different CE released locally and regionally (specially for our favourite franchises).

I encourage other developers to release this type of CE as well as making available for everyone and anyone to purchase. :thumb: :notworthy:

I thought it was just a standalone version, guess it will be bundles with these games anyways then? If not, why would these Dev Team Editions be sold in this way?.
This was explained by Ryan's post (Treehouse dude) (http://collectorsedition.org/forums/member.php?u=2456) from Page 11 (http://collectorsedition.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10370&page=11) of this thread.

None of the game bundle orders will come with the game inside the box anyway, they'll come separated from the Dev Team CE.

[OniRyo]

I like this CE, and I like this idea.
I've thought about this long ago, where developers/publishers offer the CE individually without the game so that we may have the option/choice of the CE we want instead of having to purchase every variations and different CE released locally and regionally (specially for our favourite franchises).

I encourage other developers to release this type of CE as well as making available for everyone and anyone to purchase. :thumb: :notworthy:


This was explained by Ryan's post (Treehouse dude) (http://collectorsedition.org/forums/member.php?u=2456) from Page 11 (http://collectorsedition.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10370&page=11) of this thread.

None of the game bundle orders will come with the game inside the box anyway, they'll come separated from the Dev Team CE.

Ah right, i totally missed his post out, thanks for the heads up!.

[kittychloe]

whats the deposit amount that they take for preordering this?

[Matt16]

whats the deposit amount that they take for preordering this?

They take the full amount :(

[kittychloe]

Well that leaves me out then

[LowlyAssassin]

Well that leaves me out then

theres a couple of guys on here who are buying large quantities for forum members (yep there rich) could ask one of them if they could do a buy now pay later deal

someone has helpe dme out alreadys so am sooo excited

[LowlyAssassin]

.
hey treehouse_Ryan could you clarify how these will be sealed?
are they going to be
shrink wrapped?
security sticker sealed?
piece of tape over the flaps?
no seal at al?
as i dont think it is clarified on for sale page

[ingmar1988]

Even though im out of money, ordered 1 copy. Just dont want to miss out on this!

Would have preferred if it was even more limited though (2500).

[kittychloe]

If i had it in savings i would, shit pay this week coming up, hopefully its in stock in 2 weeks :|

[Biggav4000]

kitty if you don't get sorted you can have one of mine i bought a few extra :thumb:

[LowlyAssassin]

For free :???: your so kind

[Venner]

Really good to see TreehouseRyan has signed upto this site to answer a few questions and give more info. Really looking forward to mine arriving.

[MortalMonday]

Remaining stock:

Standalone: 539
Xbox: 935
PS3: 529
PC: 685

Total remaining: 2,688

[ingmar1988]

pretty impressive to have half sold so quickly.

[NaughtyDogJames]

pretty impressive to have half sold so quickly.

Still much slower than we originally thought.

[Biggav4000]

For free :???: your so kind

Yeah why not full of tricks like that :pooryou:

[v1sav1s]

EDIT: Nevermind, just read that 5000 includes all variants!

[Vlad]

Oh, man, I'm gonna' be eating noodles for the rest of the month but I'd hate to miss out on this.
Plus I'm trying to not even think about bloody customs, heh.

Cheers for the heads up on this - I'd have probably totally missed it if I hadn't seen it on here. Especially how I couldn't find it on the EA store by searching for it, for some reason I could only find it by using OP's link.

[Erroneus]

Wauv US only, with custom fee's this would cost me 205$ without the game and 280$ with the game. Yeah never mind then.

[LowlyAssassin]

Yeah why not full of tricks like that :pooryou:

i know what you meant was jus messin:clap: am so special

[winds]

Anyone know if it's possible to switch orders?
I ordered 1 version of the PS3 Dev edition, however after reading about the increased shipping costs and the game isn't bundled with the edition, I want to change it to 2x Add-on edition.
I sent a help ticket but it's been like 10 hours and still no reply. By this rate it might be sold out before someone replies :(

[Evilhawk]

give it another 24 hours, remember its the weekends and it clearly states in the order confirmation something about monday-friday. So in most cases they will reply you on monday

[Treehouse_Ryan]

hey treehouse_Ryan could you clarify how these will be sealed?
are they going to be
shrink wrapped?
security sticker sealed?
piece of tape over the flaps?
no seal at al?
as i dont think it is clarified on for sale page

I know some details about most of what's inside the tin, but I don't know about the tin itself. I sent an email after reading your post, but they haven't gotten back to me yet. I'll let you know as soon as I do.

give it another 24 hours, remember its the weekends and it clearly states in the order confirmation something about monday-friday. So in most cases they will reply you on monday

Yeah, this. We're a pretty skeleton crew, and we let our customer service people have weekends off. If you're worried about it selling out and have the space on your card, feel free to order the ones you want. I can tell you with 100% certainty that canceling/refunding your first order won't be a problem.

[Evilhawk]

Everybody deserves their time off, none of us are robots that can work endlesly without any time off. Customer service is just like everybody else :P

[winds]

Yeah, this. We're a pretty skeleton crew, and we let our customer service people have weekends off. If you're worried about it selling out and have the space on your card, feel free to order the ones you want. I can tell you with 100% certainty that canceling/refunding your first order won't be a problem.

Thanks for the clarification, Ryan!
I went ahead and just made a 2nd order for the items I wanted, then submit a request for cancellation of the first order. I feel more relieved now that you answered :D.
Thanks again!

[Madigan]

Ryan why the shipping cost to argentina and adjacent countries is so expensive (XPO International Parcel $75.00), compared to australia (MSI International Parcel $43.00) or finland (XPO International Parcel $40.00)?

I'm not interested in this edition but I ask just in case I want something in the future.

[MortalMonday]

Remaining stock:

Standalone: 539
Xbox: 935
PS3: 529
PC: 685

Total remaining: 2,688

Looks like they're already shifting around stock. New remaining stock figures show that they added standalone stock and PS3 stock, and reduced PC stock. It also shows that there is more overall stock available now than there was earlier in the day.

Standalone: 587
Xbox: 926
PS3: 690
PC: 495

Total remaining stock: 2,699

Maybe the inventory system isn't totally reliable?

[SwiftDeath]

Looks like they're already shifting around stock. New remaining stock figures show that they added standalone stock and PS3 stock, and reduced PC stock. It also shows that there is more overall stock available now than there was earlier in the day.

Standalone: 587
Xbox: 926
PS3: 690
PC: 495

Total remaining stock: 2,699

Maybe the inventory system isn't totally reliable?

It certainly is possible for it to be unreliable

But it is also just as likely that people are cancelling orders changing orders etc.

Would like a clarification on it if at all possible though

[mosavon]

Looks like they're already shifting around stock. New remaining stock figures show that they added standalone stock and PS3 stock, and reduced PC stock. It also shows that there is more overall stock available now than there was earlier in the day.

Standalone: 587
Xbox: 926
PS3: 690
PC: 495

Total remaining stock: 2,699

Maybe the inventory system isn't totally reliable?
lol, i noticed this to, the numbers have been up and down

[sallou999]

Hey guys can someone who has ordered this answer a question please.

I want the Add On one, to the UK.

If I go to order this now, my card isn't actually being charged the full price yet, right? (That'll be just before it ships, around late January).

So, how much will I actually be charged *right now* if I go to order?

[winds]

You're charged the full amount on this one, shipping and all.

[sallou999]

You're charged the full amount on this one, shipping and all.

Ah, then it appears I'll be unable to get this. I don't get my paycheck until Saturday, and I assume they'll be gone by then. >.<

[Letrico]

Hey guys can someone who has ordered this answer a question please.

I want the Add On one, to the UK.

If I go to order this now, my card isn't actually being charged the full price yet, right? (That'll be just before it ships, around late January).

So, how much will I actually be charged *right now* if I go to order?

If you read the the replies from Treehouse_Ryan, he said that unfortunately due to the limited nature of the product, you will have to pay full price upfront to prevent people from buying massive amount and not paying for the product.

So yes, you will be charged full price right now.

[sallou999]

Sorry, I tried to sift through all the posts before posting. Apologies for missing that. I may have to borrow someones credit card, which makes me feel terrible. So, will there still be copies 12 hours from now? haha. If so, I might be ok for it.

[mosavon]

You will be charged the full amount NOW 100 USD plus shipping.

[mosavon]

Oh it appears i missed about 10 posts, wow you guys post fast or i'm going blind.

[Treehouse_Ryan]

Ryan why the shipping cost to argentina and adjacent countries is so expensive (XPO International Parcel $75.00), compared to australia (MSI International Parcel $43.00) or finland (XPO International Parcel $40.00)?

I imagine this is to do with us not sending many packages there historically and therefore not having enough data to do a decent analysis of costs. I'll see what our nearest quote was, and try to determine how we got to $75. Worst case scenario, if you ever do really want something but the shipping seems out of line, I'd be willing to push through an authorization to refund you the overage from whatever our actual costs were, and maybe that would result in a better understanding of rates to that area for everyone....

Skip the rest of this answer unless you're bizarrely interested in knowing a lot more about how we calculate shipping.

As an aside, we're [obviously] not calculating rates in real-time. We have two spreadsheets with about 2100 lines in one and 800 or so in the other that we update with a complicated series of formulas for calculating shipping fees to various countries/regions. This is based off of ever-changing rates we get charged and evolving comparisons of shipping charged to you guys vs. shipping fees we pay. You may see this as horrendously over-complicated, and you'd be right, but this is borne out of a necessity to handle a bunch of different use cases, for instance:

* Most things are based on weight and are therefore straightforward.
* Lithographs are very lightweight, but require very specialized and expensive shipping arrangements.
* But shipping three lithographs is essentially the same price as shipping one, so those calculations can't be just additive.
* Most anything else you order won't be able to be combined with a lithograph, so that means multiple shipments, and therefore a bit more complexity in actual shipping costs.
* Repeat for a ton of other indivudally specific edge cases.
* Oh, and every general and specific rule needs to be handled differently for a great deal of countries and/or regions.
* Some of which require duties to be paid, otherwise the package is held up or returned. Which duties are sometimes different for different items within the same country.
* This list actually goes on....

And all of those rules and overrides need to be distilled into formulas and rows in those spreadsheets, which are then tweaked and re-imported into the system, and then some new thing comes along that we have to figure out (in this case, now everyone that orders this one thing will end up getting two shipments of vastly different dimensions and weights that will go out at different times and probably at different speeds).

Needless to say, this is zero fun, and after all of this work and head-banging-on-walls we're still stuck charging more than we'd like to ask customers to pay just to cover costs. All of which is to say, yes, our shipping rates suck, but we're doing as much as we can to make them suck just as much less as possible, and we're sorry.

Looks like they're already shifting around stock. New remaining stock figures show that they added standalone stock and PS3 stock, and reduced PC stock. It also shows that there is more overall stock available now than there was earlier in the day.

Standalone: 587
Xbox: 926
PS3: 690
PC: 495

Total remaining stock: 2,699

Maybe the inventory system isn't totally reliable?

It certainly is possible for it to be unreliable

But it is also just as likely that people are cancelling orders changing orders etc.

Would like a clarification on it if at all possible though

Yeah, I got ahold of our production manager to move some inventory around since the Add-On version is winning. She made a mistake in the math, but was mad at me for hitting her up on a Sunday so she said it would be fine until the morning when we could get a more accurate look at sales numbers and then fix it for good. Stand by....

[Vlad]

Oh it appears i missed about 10 posts, wow you guys post fast or i'm going blind.

I think it might be the site, a fair few times recently it's taken me even a few pages back from the newest posts in a thread when I go to one, only noticed when I get to the bottom of the page.

[Madigan]

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer ryan, I really appreciate how you take your time to answer everyone.

As a mass effect fan I always visit the bioware store and your facebook page and I'm glad that you guys reduced the cost to ship lithographs to my region, the price is more reasonable now.

[LowlyAssassin]

Edit
Questions already answered

[Evilhawk]

I imagine this is to do with us not sending many packages there historically and therefore not having enough data to do a decent analysis of costs. I'll see what our nearest quote was, and try to determine how we got to $75. Worst case scenario, if you ever do really want something but the shipping seems out of line, I'd be willing to push through an authorization to refund you the overage from whatever our actual costs were, and maybe that would result in a better understanding of rates to that area for everyone....
Even though i ordered already i got the same shipping cost of $75. I live in norway, and if i tried checking about shipping to sweden, denmark and finland i end up at a shipping of $40.

[Treehouse_Ryan]

Even though i ordered already i got the same shipping cost of $75. I live in norway, and if i tried checking about shipping to sweden, denmark and finland i end up at a shipping of $40.

You're right, that was a mistake on our part. PM me your order number.

[ingmar1988]

added to database

[ingmar1988]

Added to database

note: edition is limited to 5000 pieces, get it while its hot

[Treehouse_Ryan]

hey treehouse_Ryan could you clarify how these will be sealed?
are they going to be
shrink wrapped?
security sticker sealed?
piece of tape over the flaps?
no seal at al?
as i dont think it is clarified on for sale page

That is if it even comes sealed. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't ship sealed. Treehouse loves cutting corners.

So, bad news for the sealed collectors.... The tin is packaged in a nice cardboard box surrounded with solid styrofoam sheets keeping it in place and protected. 5,000 of those boxes will arrive at our warehouse, all sealed, and then they will be slapped with labels and shipped to their new owners.

Inside those boxes, the tin is not sealed or taped or shrink-wrapped in any way. I spent a while today exploring the feasibility of getting them sealed at the warehouse instead of the factory, but it's not going to happen.

As far as the goodies themselves, the data pad, journal, and water bottle are in poly bags. The postcards are shrink wrapped. The posters are in a tube. The marker is packaged in a neat little printed cardboard box, but it's closed with tabs and also has no tape or shrinkwrap.

This is clearly a miss on our part, but I'd like to ask you to believe me when I tell you it is because we're not intelligent, and not because we're trying to cut corners. The decision to ship the games separately was made for logistical reasons, separately and after the items and tins were produced. We worried about what you would get, and we worried about how we would get it to you, but we didn't spend enough time worrying about how it would finally be presented to you when it got there, I guess.

I will personally dedicate myself to not letting this happen on another CE we produce. I understand that sealed is not only better, but really so much better as to be the only way to go, but I hope a few of you will be willing to check out the pieces in person since you don't have to break a seal to do it....

Thank you for the informative post, i may have missed it but does the box have any space for a game to be inserted? is the game just shipping OUTSIDE the box of the edition?

I was able to get a 360 game case in the space where the data pad sits inside the tin (actually, the best fit was inside the cover of the data pad because of the angle at which the cover sits normally). There is a space on the left where the art book, journal, and postcards are packed that would work fine, but then you'd have to find new homes for them.... There is not a clearly demarcated place specifically for the game. But if you're just trying to keep your things together, the data pad location is probably the most covenient anyway. It's right at the top of the tin when you open it, and is sitting in a cardboard insert that holds it face up and centered and primary.

[MortalMonday]

Thanks for info! I just hope you all used enough padding around the tins. Hopefully it's padded around all 6 sides, and hopefully it's all packed snugly in the cardboard box. Not to knock you personally, but I've bought tons of stuff from Treehouse and my only real complaint with your company is the inconsistency in the way that stuff is packed. I do believe that you all are getting better with the way you all pack stuff, but I've had more than a handful of items arrive damaged. The latest were my Mass Effect Homeworlds books that arrived with dinged up corners; and can't forget the Kingdoms of Amalur mess. No padding was used at all for the KoA Signature Edition, and the fragile boxes were crammed together in a tight shipping box. The big statue box crushed the smaller box that the game was packed in, and the statue box itself would also get damaged. :(

[tonybsg]

I'm going to display the items properly when I receive it, so I don't mind that much the non sealed thing, but it should definitely be standard issue.

My Homeworlds CE arrived with dents as well, which they clearly didn't happen during transit. :(

Speaking of Mass Effect Graphic Novels, do you know if you'll release a CE of the upcoming Mass Effect Library Edition Volume 1 HC, like you did with The Art of Mass Effect Universe?

Sorry for the off topic question!

[ingmar1988]

I actually really LIKE that it is unsealed, because now i can check out all amazing items without lessening the value!

[SwiftDeath]

Thanks ryan :thumb:

I'm a bit disappointed they aren't sealed though because even though I'm not a sealed collector, when I buy something like this at this price I want to break a seal. I like the feeling that I'm opening something that's completely untouched.

When CE's are unsealed, you just don't get that feeling

But again that's my thoughts.

Still nice to know that you'll be careful with how you ship them as I would be crushed if the tin was damaged at all, let alone the contents

[MortalMonday]

I don't really mind the lack of a seal either. I'll get to actually look at all the goodies, lol.

[MortalMonday]

Thanks ryan :thumb:

I'm a bit disappointed they aren't sealed though because even though I'm not a sealed collector, when I buy something like this at this price I want to break a seal. I like the feeling that I'm opening something that's completely untouched.

When CE's are unsealed, you just don't get that feeling

But again that's my thoughts.

Still nice to know that you'll be careful with how you ship them as I would be crushed if the tin was damaged at all, let alone the contents

I hate to admit it, but I'm already cringing at the thought of thin sheet metal in postal transit. Here's hoping all our tins arrive in excellent shape!

[Treehouse_Ryan]

Thanks for info! I just hope you all used enough padding around the tins. Hopefully it's padded around all 6 sides, and hopefully it's all packed snugly in the cardboard box. Not to knock you personally, but I've bought tons of stuff from Treehouse and my only real complaint with your company is the inconsistency in the way that stuff is packed. I do believe that you all are getting better with the way you all pack stuff, but I've had more than a handful of items arrive damaged. The latest we're my Mass Effect Homeworlds books that arrived with dinged up corners.

It is both snug and completely surrounded by six pieces of styrofoam.

Very valid complaint. In our limited defense, we don't actually package or send anything ourselves. Our warehousing and fulfillment is handled by a 3rd Party Logistics company, and we battle with them over the quality of their packaging fairly often. We try to set guidelines, and we escalate different issues with them when those guidelines aren't followed, and we evolve how things are supposed to be done as we experiment and learn and get feedback, but it's a bit tough when it's essentially out of our hands. One of the reasons these boxes are arriving to the warehouse ready to be shipped right out is so that we can eliminate another possible point of failure between the factory and getting to you. (This sounds a bit like they're all bad, which is neither the truth, nor the point I'm trying to make. They do a fair amount of special accommodations for us, and often at short notice, and most packages are delivered without incident, but they're not quite as careful or perfect all the time as we'd like for our customers [though, that's an impossibly high bar, and would almost certainly be equally true of any solution short of doing it ourselves].)

We do always try to take care of people when things are damaged, in transit or otherwise, though. There is a certain degree of littler imperfections that have to be chalked up to "shit happens", but if there's real damage, we'll always work with you to try to make it right.

[Undeadbonez]

No matter what happens, I would personally like to thank you Ryan. Your information and quick response shows that you care and it is much appreciated.

[MortalMonday]

Yeah. The one thing I can definitely say with confidence about Treehouse is that they're really, really good about taking care of their customers. Every time I've had a problem with an order, they've gone above and beyond to try and fix the problem. So kudos to them on that.

[LowlyAssassin]

I think with this awesome kit collector edition that has been assembled
None of use are sad or unhappy that it is not sealed as it is obviously that it is a very rare thing these days
A thing called a shelf filler
Where the contents are meant to be opened and displayed in a nice bundle like in your promo pics
So for many of us the lack of a seal is a bonus as it means we do not devalue out by opening it
But for the few that where planning on buying 2. One too open and one to keep sealed, they may be disappointed
Not personally your companies fault, it seems that a few companies are over looking the options to seal collectors editions these days

I personally prefer the circle stickers on flaps seals for collectors editions like yours that have a lot of little things that should be open
And the shrink wrap full seal for the statue/art book standard CE as you know your not missing out on anything by leaving a statue &art book CE sealed

[Biggav4000]

Thanks for info! I just hope you all used enough padding around the tins. Hopefully it's padded around all 6 sides, and hopefully it's all packed snugly in the cardboard box. Not to knock you personally, but I've bought tons of stuff from Treehouse and my only real complaint with your company is the inconsistency in the way that stuff is packed. I do believe that you all are getting better with the way you all pack stuff, but I've had more than a handful of items arrive damaged. The latest were my Mass Effect Homeworlds books that arrived with dinged up corners; and can't forget the Kingdoms of Amalur mess. No padding was used at all for the KoA Signature Edition, and the fragile boxes were crammed together in a tight shipping box. The big statue box crushed the smaller box that the game was packed in, and the statue box itself would also get damaged. :(
I agree with Mortal on this my koa was damaged too,will you be keeping a few tins back for replacements in case any are damaged overseas or in the US ?

[LowlyAssassin]

I agree with Mortal on this my koa was damaged too,will you be keeping a few tins back for replacements in case any are damaged overseas or in the US ?

i`d assume either
they have a small 1 -2% excess of the stated quantity to cover breakages
OR
they would recall damagaed ones and replace the broken parts for undamaged parts
OR
they would hold 1?2% back in order to cover DOA`s and then after a month release these for sale either straight sales or to a waiting list if they sell out

[CrixDoomsday]

Guys i first time ordering from them. Do u know if there will be any custom fees? Packtage will have any information for customs? i dont want to pay any aditoonal cost... never had to - yet. But if i have to pay 25% then just kill me already

[vhal_x]

I imagine there probably will be customs fees, unfortunately xx

[ingmar1988]

Some companies that send a lot of orders international mark down value and send as gift.

[Treehouse_Ryan]

I agree with Mortal on this my koa was damaged too,will you be keeping a few tins back for replacements in case any are damaged overseas or in the US ?

i`d assume either
they have a small 1 -2% excess of the stated quantity to cover breakages
OR
they would recall damagaed ones and replace the broken parts for undamaged parts
OR
they would hold 1?2% back in order to cover DOA`s and then after a month release these for sale either straight sales or to a waiting list if they sell out

Yes, the KoA editions were not as protected as the should have been, which is why extra effort was taken this time to make sure that didn't happen.

Our policy for replacements on limited items is to not sell as many as we made. We generally don't produce more than the stated number of something. For nearly every limited item, we produce exactly as many as the edition size and then hold back as many as we think will be necessary to use as replacements. Once everyone seems to be sorted out, we'll quietly sell whatever leftovers we have, or have them sent to the office for giveaways, etc.

For this CE, we produced exactly 5,000 and will use a percentage of them as potential replacements or open them up for parts in the unlikely event that something has gone wrong with just one item. The exception to this is the postcards. Turns out you can't get just 5,000 postcards printed, so we ordered more than that and will put them on the store separately sometime. I promise this is the only item in the whole collection that has a larger run, and nothing else will be available separately.

Guys i first time ordering from them. Do u know if there will be any custom fees? Packtage will have any information for customs? i dont want to pay any aditoonal cost... never had to - yet. But if i have to pay 25% then just kill me already

Some companies that send a lot of orders international mark down value and send as gift.

Canadian orders will not have to pay duties because we were able to work it out in the shipping method.

European orders will owe duties, and we have a proper customs letter.

I may or may not have done the gift thing for the small-time orders I used to pack up and ship out myself at a previous job, but we would get in a ton of trouble if we did it at this scale. Also, since we have a warehouse and tax-presence in the UK now, anything not completely above board would sink us....

Sorry for the additional costs, but we don't have a lot of options.

[adam1289]

Surprised that this still hasn't sold out, does anyone know how long it took the Dead Space Ultra Limited Edition to sell out?

[ingmar1988]

Yes, the KoA editions were not as protected as the should have been, which is why extra effort was taken this time to make sure that didn't happen.

Our policy for replacements on limited items is to not sell as many as we made. We generally don't produce more than the stated number of something. For nearly every limited item, we produce exactly as many as the edition size and then hold back as many as we think will be necessary to use as replacements. Once everyone seems to be sorted out, we'll quietly sell whatever leftovers we have, or have them sent to the office for giveaways, etc.

For this CE, we produced exactly 5,000 and will use a percentage of them as potential replacements or open them up for parts in the unlikely event that something has gone wrong with just one item. The exception to this is the postcards. Turns out you can't get just 5,000 postcards printed, so we ordered more than that and will put them on the store separately sometime. I promise this is the only item in the whole collection that has a larger run, and nothing else will be available separately.





Canadian orders will not have to pay duties because we were able to work it out in the shipping method.

European orders will owe duties, and we have a proper customs letter.

I may or may not have done the gift thing for the small-time orders I used to pack up and ship out myself at a previous job, but we would get in a ton of trouble if we did it at this scale. Also, since we have a warehouse and tax-presence in the UK now, anything not completely above board would sink us....

Sorry for the additional costs, but we don't have a lot of options.

I was wondering, if you have a warehouse in UK now, wouldnt it be an option to send everything to UK first and than distribute over europe?

The thing is with taxes, its not the biggest problem. The problem is also the postal company charing 12.50 euro for receiving the payment. If you could send through uk you would prevent that, and just let us pay the taxes by a little bit higher shipping cost. Also that way the packages dont get stuck in customs which can take a while in some countries!

ps: ryan thanks for your replies, very very awsome. Wish more companies would take the time to do this!
Also, would it be an idea that you pitch new idea's for a next CE at this forum to get input from real collectors?

[Treehouse_Ryan]

I was wondering, if you have a warehouse in UK now, wouldnt it be an option to send everything to UK first and than distribute over europe?

The thing is with taxes, its not the biggest problem. The problem is also the postal company charing 12.50 euro for receiving the payment. If you could send through uk you would prevent that, and just let us pay the taxes by a little bit higher shipping cost. Also that way the packages dont get stuck in customs which can take a while in some countries!

We talked at length about this. Here are most of the reasons it's a problem:

* Fairly substantial additional costs to ship them to the second warehouse and pay another team to count and inventory and store them. Would either have to eat those costs and lose margin for those units, or charge more for them to make it up. If this was the only problem, we would have eaten the charges in order to provide much better service to you all....

* Getting the tins over to the UK and through customs would take enough time that no one would get theirs until well after they beat the game and started to care less about it all. It post-poned the shipping date by a minimum of three weeks, but it easily could have stretched longer....

* If we have Tins in the UK warehouse, they have to be sold to only international customers because we owe VAT on anything that moves out of that warehouse. So the number of tins over there have to exist independently of the number of tins in the US warehouse, which means we have to decide up front how many we're sending over, and that means the UK/US inventories would sell out separately from each other, and if we over- or under- estimated how many would sell to each region, we'd have either dead stock, or other logistical problems. We didn't have any information on which to base this decsion because the KoA editions weren't allowed to be sold internationally, so we'd have had to make an already tough decision on the back of zero data.

* Assuming we have two sets of independent inventory now, we have to make the website able to track both and offer them to the right people at the right times. if the stocks weren't handled separately, some extras in the US would be able to be sold to someone expecting them to come from the UK, which is a problem on its face, but is also a nightmare from a taxes/shipping-rate point of view. To make the website do this, we'd need to either create a third item - "Add-On (Int'l Shipping Option)" or something - in order to track its inventory separately. But how many people do you think would get that wrong? The alternative is that we have another whole website, like on the BioWare and PopCap stores, where you have to know to toggle your site preference by clicking an icon in the header, and then it's set in a cookie, but if you don't explicitly do this, you don't get access to the UK inventory. Oh, and this store would only have one item in it, because we don't have other Dead Space gear in the UK at this time, so you'd have to jump through that hoop a couple times to reset yourself from being locked into that second store so you could see the other Dead Space (or etc) stuff we're going to put out....

So, yes, our international distribution needs some work before it's practical for you guys (or us, really). The good news is that we're exploring a lot of different options here, and are working really hard to get it under control (someone's coming in for a meeting about some of this later today). But we definitely couldn't work it out in time for it to matter for this project.

If anyone has a lot of experience with this, or has bought from US companies that have a less painful process, PM me with some details and we'll track down everything we can....

ps: ryan thanks for your replies, very very awsome. Wish more companies would take the time to do this!
Also, would it be an idea that you pitch new idea's for a next CE at this forum to get input from real collectors?

This is tricky, on account of how much money the publishers invest in these games. While I think it would be incredibly valuable to do that, I don't know if it would be possible to solicit ideas without essentially leaking information about whatever deal we have to do one well ahead of time.

I'd love to talk to everyone here about general things that they like and dislike. Or if you guys wanted to speculate publicly about possible CEs we could do based on what games we already have stores for, I would read those and chime in vaguely wherever I could, but it's very sticky ground.

At the very least, I'd love to work out some exclusive content for you all, in terms of maybe announcing the next one here first, or working out an interview you could post that has content other media sites wouldn't, or getting someone an early sample to post an exclusive unboxing or something....

[ingmar1988]

We talked at length about this. Here are most of the reasons it's a problem:

* Fairly substantial additional costs to ship them to the second warehouse and pay another team to count and inventory and store them. Would either have to eat those costs and lose margin for those units, or charge more for them to make it up. If this was the only problem, we would have eaten the charges in order to provide much better service to you all....

* Getting the tins over to the UK and through customs would take enough time that no one would get theirs until well after they beat the game and started to care less about it all. It post-poned the shipping date by a minimum of three weeks, but it easily could have stretched longer....

* If we have Tins in the UK warehouse, they have to be sold to only international customers because we owe VAT on anything that moves out of that warehouse. So the number of tins over there have to exist independently of the number of tins in the US warehouse, which means we have to decide up front how many we're sending over, and that means the UK/US inventories would sell out separately from each other, and if we over- or under- estimated how many would sell to each region, we'd have either dead stock, or other logistical problems. We didn't have any information on which to base this decsion because the KoA editions weren't allowed to be sold internationally, so we'd have had to make an already tough decision on the back of zero data.

* Assuming we have two sets of independent inventory now, we have to make the website able to track both and offer them to the right people at the right times. if the stocks weren't handled separately, some extras in the US would be able to be sold to someone expecting them to come from the UK, which is a problem on its face, but is also a nightmare from a taxes/shipping-rate point of view. To make the website do this, we'd need to either create a third item - "Add-On (Int'l Shipping Option)" or something - in order to track its inventory separately. But how many people do you think would get that wrong? The alternative is that we have another whole website, like on the BioWare and PopCap stores, where you have to know to toggle your site preference by clicking an icon in the header, and then it's set in a cookie, but if you don't explicitly do this, you don't get access to the UK inventory. Oh, and this store would only have one item in it, because we don't have other Dead Space gear in the UK at this time, so you'd have to jump through that hoop a couple times to reset yourself from being locked into that second store so you could see the other Dead Space (or etc) stuff we're going to put out....

So, yes, our international distribution needs some work before it's practical for you guys (or us, really). The good news is that we're exploring a lot of different options here, and are working really hard to get it under control (someone's coming in for a meeting about some of this later today). But we definitely couldn't work it out in time for it to matter for this project.

If anyone has a lot of experience with this, or has bought from US companies that have a less painful process, PM me with some details and we'll track down everything we can....



This is tricky, on account of how much money the publishers invest in these games. While I think it would be incredibly valuable to do that, I don't know if it would be possible to solicit ideas without essentially leaking information about whatever deal we have to do one well ahead of time.

I'd love to talk to everyone here about general things that they like and dislike. Or if you guys wanted to speculate publicly about possible CEs we could do based on what games we already have stores for, I would read those and chime in vaguely wherever I could, but it's very sticky ground.

At the very least, I'd love to work out some exclusive content for you all, in terms of maybe announcing the next one here first, or working out an interview you could post that has content other media sites wouldn't, or getting someone an early sample to post an exclusive unboxing or something....

Thanks for your reply, i really see its much more difficult to do than it seems, but great to hear you guys are at least thinking it all through!

On a second note, i think it would be really great to have an exclusive unboxing/interview/reveal or something like that. Would be very awesome if something like that would be possible!

For me personally it would be also very interesting to see how you come up with a CE, how do you determine what you will include. And maybe to see items/idea's that didnt make the cut or see the prototype of items you worked on...stuff like that is super interesting.

[Venner]

At the very least, I'd love to work out some exclusive content for you all, in terms of maybe announcing the next one here first, or working out an interview you could post that has content other media sites wouldn't, or getting someone an early sample to post an exclusive unboxing or something....

That would be awesome.

[gu8]

could you tell me what are the latest quantities remaining please ryan?

[Treehouse_Ryan]

could you tell me what are the latest quantities remaining please ryan?

About 700 in total.

[tonybsg]

If anyone has a lot of experience with this, or has bought from US companies that have a less painful process, PM me with some details and we'll track down everything we can....

Ryan, thanx for your answers as well.

Regarding international orders, ofcourse some extra charges are acceptable under any countries' laws.

The thing you should do, is under any circumstancies DO NOT use any express shipping option from companies like UPS, DHL, FEDEX.

In many countries they charge not only the taxes that expected by law, but also some other handling fees that are almost what you pay for the item!!!

If i'm not mistaken XPO International are partners with USPS, so if you use the simpliest method of shipping, then we receive the items from our local post office with no problems and no additional charges that are not expected.

With XPO I never had any problems, except for some cheapest items, I have bought the CE of The Art of the Mass Effect Universe which was around $100 if i recall correctly.

Furthermore, I have tons of orders from amazon.com, videogamesplus.ca, american ebay sellers etc and when they use standard shipping options, I never have a problem.

In addition to that you should check out AmazonGlobal program, which gives you the opportunity to pay in advance an import fee and what you see in the checkout is the final paypent. They probably have a deal with the courier companies.

I understand that amazon is huge, so another example is the Irrational store which have the same option, prepaid import fees while they use DHL as a carrier and an express shipping option with standart cost of $35.

[Madigan]

Yeah, UPS, DHL or Fedex are a nightmare for international customers, sometimes their handling fees cost more than the product itself (200% more in some cases).

USPS all the way :banana:

[Chargersfan57]

About 700 in total.

I ordered mine yesterday so it looks like I just got in on this in the nick of time!!! I originally ordered with the game but money being as tight as it is I cancelled and reordered the add-on.

I've been replaying though DS2 in anticipation and I must say it's a great franchise.

Thanks for the info Ryan. What you've done, even as little as posting information, goes a long way with collectors! So :beer: to you Ryan.

[Dreamcazman]

I feel sorry for those of you in Europe who have to pay fees on imports. :(

I guess that's another benefit of living in Australia, anything under AUD$1000 doesn't incur any extra fees no matter how it's delivered. :D

[Letrico]

mate cazman, they are planning to put import tax on anything above $60.

[mosavon]

Yeah, the UK like some tax, ours is 15 GBP :pooryou:

Good to see these are almost Sold Out!

[Dreamcazman]

mate cazman, they are planning to put import tax on anything above $60.
I heard they wanted to change it, don't know when though.

IMO the government gets enough tax out of us already, greedy bastards!

[ElectronicElation]

Hey there Ryan,
Been checking out all the posts you have made and I'm impressed at all the great lengths you are going to to help out the members of this community and collector's in general. You are who a lot of PR rep's should be taking notes from. Picked up the Dev-Team add-on and am eagerly awaiting it's arrival already. My KOA edition arrived heavily damaged as well. Well of course that's in the eye of the beholder huh? As collector's on here when it's damaged it could be a dent/scratch, a corner bent in. . . or mauled by a bear. Who knows. But since we are all truly collector's on here when a product arrives damaged it's heartbreaking because the term "mint" makes us salivate. hehe I'll be interested to check out the packaging as well and looking forward to future releases through Treehouse.


At the very least, I'd love to work out some exclusive content for you all, in terms of maybe announcing the next one here first, or working out an interview you could post that has content other media sites wouldn't, or getting someone an early sample to post an exclusive unboxing or something....

I would love to help you out in this area. I mean come on! For selfish reasons why wouldn't I want an early release?!? That's a no-brainer. But I actually do have a youtube channel called ElectronicElation
(http://www.youtube.com/electronicelation)
It's a little bit popular and have done unboxing's before.
(Example unboxing vid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcM3yTtMdeM
Would LOVE to do one for anything you wanna throw my way or let me know if I could help in any other ways in this regard and would of course not mind doing it to shamelessly bring CE.org into the spotlight/Treeehouse. :)

[ElectronicElation]

IMO the government gets enough tax out of us already, greedy bastards!

:beer: Preach it!

[Madigan]

I think the admin would be the perfect candidate to receive stuff early.

[MortalMonday]

I too would love to get samples early! Here's a sample unboxing that I did recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMj5iUXIMFs

Just throwin' my name in the hat for consideration in case anything comes of this. :)

[Sylfaris]

I too would love to get samples early! Here's a sample unboxing that I did recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMj5iUXIMFs

Just throwin' my name in the hat for consideration in case anything comes of this. :)

everyone would love to do it - but i guess it's truly admin stuff or the owner at least the staffmembers cuz they'r working hard to present us all this informations.

Thanks to Ryan for all this Informations i really love dead space 3 and that dev. edition :) nice work keep up and i hope for the future (deadspace4?) there will be a more awesome ce as well

[thefunk007]

everyone would love to do it - but i guess it's truly admin stuff or the owner at least the staffmembers cuz they'r working hard to present us all this informations.

Thanks to Ryan for all this Informations i really love dead space 3 and that dev. edition :) nice work keep up and i hope for the future (deadspace4?) there will be a more awesome ce as well

This is something I agree with it should be Twisted as he is the site owner and one responsible for all of this.

[thefunk007]

Have they now limited the amount that can be purchased to 10 units? Ryan is it possible to give an estimate as to how many units are left please?

[Letrico]

Have they now limited the amount that can be purchased to 10 units? Ryan is it possible to give an estimate as to how many units are left please?

Maybe its the specific platform you chose have 10 left? Ryan mentioned this morning there was approximately 700 total for all platform + add on.

[ZeeAussie]

Sheez, this is selling pretty well.

Cheers for the heads up as I got a couple, one for me and my nephew.

[ElectronicElation]

This is something I agree with it should be Twisted as he is the site owner and one responsible for all of this.

I agree. I just saw this as a chance to help out and didn't really give it deeper thought. But yeah, I agree. I DID have a funny fart compilation video I've been dying to do so that will free me up for that (much more important). :banana: (Didn't mean to start anything guys)

SO! Looking forward to Dead Space 3 Dev-Team arriving (from what we've been told, hint, hint) possibly earlier than the announced release date! Cool beans! This will be me on the day it arrives. . . :poke:

[ingmar1988]

Now you can only order up to 10 copies. However this also means we can not check anymore how many copies are in stock!

Really hopes it sells out soon, the thing i really hate about CE's if they get overproduced. (although it wont be the case here, how harder it will be to get, better for value).

[the-fixer-1]

i paid $128. $100 for game and $28 shipping. to UK. then there will be another ?30 custom charge. but worth it

[Venner]

i paid $128. $100 for game and $28 shipping. to UK. then there will be another ?30 custom charge. but worth it

Same here did it on the credit card and it worked out about 79 pounds on my statement.

[thefunk007]

Yeah I asked Ryan for an update on the quantity left?

[PaleShelter]

http://forbiddenplanet.com/97810-dead-space-3-dev-team-edition-add-on/

[thefunk007]

http://forbiddenplanet.com/97810-dead-space-3-dev-team-edition-add-on/

Any explain that to me? (i.e how is it for sale there as well?)....

They must have bought a load - this is going to cheaper for UK people to order this due to the zero customs?

[vhal_x]

They've obviously bought some stock themselves to list for profit xx

[thefunk007]

They've obviously bought some stock themselves to list for profit xx

But it's still cheaper for UK people to order through these?

[vhal_x]

How though? Isn't it only ?80ish shipped to UK? xx

[PaleShelter]

yep i thought i'd share that with you guys. I think they ship over Europe too.

[NaughtyDogJames]

yep i thought i'd share that with you guys. I think they ship over Europe too.

Not with customs I imagine.

[thefunk007]

How though? Isn't it only ?80ish shipped to UK? xx

Well I am thinking $100 + $28 shipping + Tax?

[Treehouse_Ryan]

Have they now limited the amount that can be purchased to 10 units? Ryan is it possible to give an estimate as to how many units are left please?

Sorry. Yesterday was a bit less fun than normal over here....

Looks like we're a little under 140 left.

Any explain that to me? (i.e how is it for sale there as well?)....

They must have bought a load - this is going to cheaper for UK people to order this due to the zero customs?

I heard about this by reading about it here, so I asked around. Apparently we sold them ten units at the request of some EA folks. We often sell them some stock of limited items, as they're a good partner and respected store, but I hadn't heard about this one until after it was done.

[OniRyo]

Seems like it's out of stock now, i was thinking about ordering the artbook aswell, but then i saw the delivery costs. :(

[johnymohny]

Left this one too long :( Thankfully it's on forbidden Planet, But now I can't check out on forbidden Planet :(

[Pelaus]

This is coming to my doorstep pretty soon yeah!~

[Treehouse_Ryan]

Officially sold out!

I'm sure we'll still have some cancellations, so there's a good chance a few will turn up back in the store at odd intervals. I'm not generally involved in that during my normal daily routine, but if I hear ahead of time that we're about to realease a couple more, I'll post here if that would be of interest to anyone that wanted one but didn't get one yet....

Thanks to everyone for your questions and interest. I'm really hoping this turns into a big success, which means we'll have more chances to do them in the future, and hopefully with your help they'll just keep getting better.

I'll stick around and lurk, so if you have any other specific questions you want answered, I'll try to do my best to answer them. I'll also make sure to start a brainstorming thread if anyone wants to talk about what does and doesn't make a good CE.

Thanks again, everyone. This has been a lot of fun, and I'm very curious to know what you all like and dislike about the final product when you get it, too.

[comaamen86]

Officially sold out!

I'm sure we'll still have some cancellations, so there's a good chance a few will turn up back in the store at odd intervals. I'm not generally involved in that during my normal daily routine, but if I hear ahead of time that we're about to realease a couple more, I'll post here if that would be of interest to anyone that wanted one but didn't get one yet....

Thanks to everyone for your questions and interest. I'm really hoping this turns into a big success, which means we'll have more chances to do them in the future, and hopefully with your help they'll just keep getting better.

I'll stick around and lurk, so if you have any other specific questions you want answered, I'll try to do my best to answer them. I'll also make sure to start a brainstorming thread if anyone wants to talk about what does and doesn't make a good CE.

Thanks again, everyone. This has been a lot of fun, and I'm very curious to know what you all like and dislike about the final product when you get it, too.

thanks for the info and q and a very nice for someone to make the effort

[MortalMonday]

Congrats on the sell out!

[Matrix6]

Officially sold out!

I'm sure we'll still have some cancellations, so there's a good chance a few will turn up back in the store at odd intervals. I'm not generally involved in that during my normal daily routine, but if I hear ahead of time that we're about to realease a couple more, I'll post here if that would be of interest to anyone that wanted one but didn't get one yet....

Thanks to everyone for your questions and interest. I'm really hoping this turns into a big success, which means we'll have more chances to do them in the future, and hopefully with your help they'll just keep getting better.

I'll stick around and lurk, so if you have any other specific questions you want answered, I'll try to do my best to answer them. I'll also make sure to start a brainstorming thread if anyone wants to talk about what does and doesn't make a good CE.

Thanks again, everyone. This has been a lot of fun, and I'm very curious to know what you all like and dislike about the final product when you get it, too.

Yay! Thank you for everything you've provided for us :thumb: :1: :beer: :bunny:

[themidlandmaster]

Officially sold out!

I'm sure we'll still have some cancellations, so there's a good chance a few will turn up back in the store at odd intervals. I'm not generally involved in that during my normal daily routine, but if I hear ahead of time that we're about to realease a couple more, I'll post here if that would be of interest to anyone that wanted one but didn't get one yet....

Thanks to everyone for your questions and interest. I'm really hoping this turns into a big success, which means we'll have more chances to do them in the future, and hopefully with your help they'll just keep getting better.

I'll stick around and lurk, so if you have any other specific questions you want answered, I'll try to do my best to answer them. I'll also make sure to start a brainstorming thread if anyone wants to talk about what does and doesn't make a good CE.

Thanks again, everyone. This has been a lot of fun, and I'm very curious to know what you all like and dislike about the final product when you get it, too.

Awesome!

Hopefully we won't dislike anything ;)

[ingmar1988]

I think everybody here is definitely willing to give feedback on packaging and contents once received!

[toxicatom5]

I think everybody here is definitely willing to give feedback on packaging and contents once received!

Yes, we are nothing if not brutally honest! :) Can't wait to get this in the mail.

[Murtera]

Officially sold out!

I'm sure we'll still have some cancellations, so there's a good chance a few will turn up back in the store at odd intervals. I'm not generally involved in that during my normal daily routine, but if I hear ahead of time that we're about to realease a couple more, I'll post here if that would be of interest to anyone that wanted one but didn't get one yet....

Thanks to everyone for your questions and interest. I'm really hoping this turns into a big success, which means we'll have more chances to do them in the future, and hopefully with your help they'll just keep getting better.

I'll stick around and lurk, so if you have any other specific questions you want answered, I'll try to do my best to answer them. I'll also make sure to start a brainstorming thread if anyone wants to talk about what does and doesn't make a good CE.

Thanks again, everyone. This has been a lot of fun, and I'm very curious to know what you all like and dislike about the final product when you get it, too.

Close call. I debated giving it a couple more days to buy it or not. Broke down and got it yesterday... Really looking forward to this one!