Assassins Creed Statue/Figures

[DeathlessOne]

Originally Posted by JCage

It's like investing I guess.... with Pure Arts Legendary Bayek… I was barely able to get it two weeks after preorder announced in June 2017 as it sold out instantly with only couple hundred units (remember Bayek although shipped separate came as package buy with legendary origins edition) yet even though Bayek edition was same price as legendary Alexios at $750 + Odyssey Gold ED with pass … a year goes by and the legendary Alexios statue still has units on UBI shop which can be bought for less than half price! How do you anticipate this? I figured it would be same as Bayek and it would have sold out. Is it because Alexios looks do not sync up with the normal hooded clearly assassin style shown in all the other assassins released before him? Or was it a supply thing where they made too many of the legendary statues>? Who knows... on one hand it sucks I paid double last fall... on the other hand I ccertainly have gotten double worth of enjoyment out of it and it warms my heart to see collectors here with opportunity to buy it at half price vs. dealing with the eBay "pirates" (no offense Edward) listing these for thousands of dollars.

I got the same $279 deal on the beyond good and evil Knox which I never would have dropped $750 on but it's cool enough at $279 (this one also being listed by our friendly eBay Pirates at north of $1,000).

Cheers JC

Exactly! I most certainly would have not spent $750 on this but I didn't have a second thought for this price. I was almost thinking that they would cancel the order, but it finally shipped yesterday. But, I'm a fan of Kassandra more than Alexios and would love to buy her statue if it was available in same quality.

[Spect3r]

Originally Posted by DeathlessOne

Exactly! I most certainly would have not spent $750 on this but I didn't have a second thought for this price. I was almost thinking that they would cancel the order, but it finally shipped yesterday. But, I'm a fan of Kassandra more than Alexios and would love to buy her statue if it was available in same quality.

Its a great deal, even in Europe that is slightly more expensive at little above 300€ (before the 20% discount with 100 points), the only reason i dont buy it is because i didnt enjoyed the game.
In all honesty this might have been the game that made my love for AC decrease substantialy.

[defiler]

Or was it a supply thing where they made too many of the legendary statues>?

IIRC, the Alexios batch was limited to less than 2000 units globally, so I doubt it was an overproduction thing. For me it just doesnt seem to match anything else that I would have from the AC series, which I think others may have had the same thoughts.

[Spect3r]

Originally Posted by defiler

IIRC, the Alexios batch was limited to less than 2000 units globally, so I doubt it was an overproduction thing. For me it just doesnt seem to match anything else that I would have from the AC series, which I think others may have had the same thoughts.

Was 1900 and that is way too much for this statue, not only like you say, has nothing to do with any other AC statue but the original price didnt helped either to sell that many

[JCage]

Originally Posted by Spect3r

Was 1900 and that is way too much for this statue, not only like you say, has nothing to do with any other AC statue but the original price didnt helped either to sell that many

SO then Bayek sold out so fast mostly because it was so limited. Then in the future if I see 1900 production run of a legendary statue I will wait a year to buy at the E3 sale! Although I doubt they won't learn from this and ratchet back the production on future statues.

JC

[Mar-l-Aoutat]

Originally Posted by JCage

SO then Bayek sold out so fast mostly because it was so limited. Then in the future if I see 1900 production run of a legendary statue I will wait a year to buy at the E3 sale! Although I doubt they won't learn from this and ratchet back the production on future statues.

JC

There is a couple reasons why it didn't sold-out imo.

First, Odyssey came out just a year after origins, vs Origins came out two years after Syndicate. So people were waiting for origins and there was a lot of hype around it, more than Odyssey. So when they saw this giant CE they jumped on it. Also, not everyone has $600 to put on a statue each year.

Second, Bayek does indeed feel more Assassin than Alexios and that might have turned off some people to buy the Alexios statue.

Third, the edition size. 999 of bayek vs 2000 of Alexios. That's twice as much of a statue from a less anticipated, less AC-ish game.

Finally, Ubisoft's choice of selling Bayek as a Collector's edition, but Alexios as a standalone statue, and for almost the same price. Lots of people collect only Collectors editions, so if it's not labbelled as such, they won't buy. They should have made the Alexios statue as a CE instead.


I got mine at 20% off with Ubi points when it came out and I am happy with it and with the price I paid. It could have been cheaper but I am always too scared of missing out and getting big heavy stuff in Canada can be quite complicated. It does suck for those who paid full price. At least now we know, 2000 units of a standalone statue is too high.

[DeathlessOne]

Originally Posted by Spect3r

Its a great deal, even in Europe that is slightly more expensive at little above 300€ (before the 20% discount with 100 points), the only reason i dont buy it is because i didnt enjoyed the game.
In all honesty this might have been the game that made my love for AC decrease substantialy.

I totally understand you, but on the contrary I liked this game more than Origins for sure. But I understand what you said and even some of my friends didn't like the way the franchise is heading.

[Spect3r]

Originally Posted by DeathlessOne

I totally understand you, but on the contrary I liked this game more than Origins for sure. But I understand what you said and even some of my friends didn't like the way the franchise is heading.

Is not so much the game that i didnt like, gameplay, etc plays nice actually.
It's all the god damn SJW pandering that killed it for me.
Women in the battlefield in Ancient Greece? Open homossexuality? Open bestiality? And a dozen more things that for a franchise that tries to (within the reals of videogame possibility) keep a certain degree of historically acuracy is just straight out non sense for the sake of pleasing people who doesnt even play videogames.