Price of collector's editions going up?

[BitWraith]

First, here's the rant video I did on the subject:



The prices of these things is getting out of hand. Just so we're clear that I'm not just picking on FFXV here, heres a list of other CEs that I think are priced too high:

1. Dark Souls 3 Prestige Edition: $500 (now being scalped for $1500)
2. Battlefield 1: $220
3. Mirror's Edge Catalyst: $200
4. Gears of War 4: $250
5. Halo 5: (Was) $250

I'm finding that these editions are costing more, giving less, and the quality of the innards is suffering. The statues usually look really good in the promo materials, but in real life they look like mass produced crap. The games themselves are increasingly not even physical copies, but rather codes (mostly on PC).

The best Collector's edition released in a good long while (in my opinion) is definitely the Overwatch one, and it came in at half(ish) of the cost of these.