Re: Rules that All CE makers should follow
In addition to my comments above, I would also like to add:
7. Bonus items should be relevant, and / or serve a purpose!
Any physical bonus items included should be representative of the game, and / or should be related to it in someway.
Item or weapon replicas are nice to have, provided they are of good quality. Eg, figures should be well crafted and painted professionally, rather than cheap moulds. WETA items tend to be of the highest quality, whilst others tend to look and feel more like Airfix...
Things like USB sticks should be branded with the game logo, and ideally styled after an item from the game universe. Again, this should be good quality and durable, and not a cheap plastic moulded item
Anything depicting artwork from the game is acceptable (even if it's a mouse pad for a console game which doesn't even use a mouse), but within reason. The Japanese seem to have a strange concept of what game collectors would want as bonus items! Lol!
Also, if an item serves a physical real-world function then that's a bonus! Items like mouse pads, USB sticks, chopsticks, bandanas, watch straps, faceplates etc... Not that most collectors would want to use them, but they should be useable if so wished. Unlike the COD: World At War hipflask which was of such poor quality and advised that it was for display purposes only and shouldn't be used - What's the point in that?
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