Assassin's Creed Syndicate Charing Cross Edition, Rooks Edition & Big Ben Collector’s Case Announced for Europe

[BornFreeCE]

Originally Posted by LowlyAssassin

I don't particularly like any of the chpcie there bit 3 looks more likely to win although I'd love to see 1 for its vibrant colour reproduction

Yeah, these aren't exactly jackpot lithographs.

I wish if knew if the third lithograph was a significant scene. I don't know who the other character is.

I expect number 2 will win.

I would have liked to see Jacob in his top hat, maybe with Evie, or driving a horse and carriage...

This made me laugh:

[Vlad]

Thanks for posting these, didn't even occur to me at the time to take a screencap.

But yeah, this is the one that I meant I liked.
The others are okay but I like this one considerably more, I like the more open look of it because it's outdoors, the scene is more appealing, as is the muted tone and no disrespect meant to the others but they do look more like generic concept art to me personally that I'd be more likely to notice as much in an artbook for example.
Would definitely display my favourite in a nice place.

[I_BE_WILL]

So the season price would be roughly same as COD at about $60 Australian, that nearly justifies the Big Ben price jump alone.

End of the day you can have a CE with all the digital content and people will hate the price, or have a cheaper CE and have people complain about not having all the content.

[MadMan5]

Originally Posted by I_BE_WILL

So the season price would be roughly same as COD at about $60 Australian, that nearly justifies the Big Ben price jump alone.

End of the day you can have a CE with all the digital content and people will hate the price, or have a cheaper CE and have people complain about not having all the content.

The SP is on sale on PSN but some fucker has DDOS it again $45 I think but I may be wrong as I can't check. EBGames sales the base game for $100 AUD.

[dwade23]

Originally Posted by LowlyAssassin

no it did not get the season pass for free
Ubisoft has charged roughly the same price for all of its season passes £34.99


How can you state that somebody is in denial? I thought that kind of statement was only allowed to be made by the party themselves and by a qualified doctor who had been seeing the patient


I don't particularly like any of the chpcie there bit 3 looks more likely to win although I'd love to see 1 for its vibrant colour reproduction

My bad, I was the DLC "Dead Kings" not the season pass that was free.
The Season pass tends to be fairly pointless though as theres heaps of extra content that most people ignore. The SP DLCs should be included and that's it.

I don't have to be qualified to recognize someone who is a hoarder as opposed to a collector. Its fairly obvious.

Either way, take away the season pass from the Big Ben edition and you have a much more affordable edition. Over $200 for an edition of a game is just silly considering you can download the game for about $30AUD. Its blatant upselling. The game itself should be the focus, it should be the most valuable component of an edition. Its a shame to see Ubisoft adopting this mentality of maximizing profits at the cost of customer loyalty. Shame, shame.

[MattTweeks]

Regarding the lithographs, I voted for #1.

As for the cane and gauntlet replicas, a trailer is here for them, however it lacks visuals of the actual product.
https://youtu.be/GXA_M6G7xnY

[I_BE_WILL]

Originally Posted by dwade23

My bad, I was the DLC "Dead Kings" not the season pass that was free.
The Season pass tends to be fairly pointless though as theres heaps of extra content that most people ignore. The SP DLCs should be included and that's it.

I don't have to be qualified to recognize someone who is a hoarder as opposed to a collector. Its fairly obvious.

Either way, take away the season pass from the Big Ben edition and you have a much more affordable edition. Over $200 for an edition of a game is just silly considering you can download the game for about $30AUD. Its blatant upselling. The game itself should be the focus, it should be the most valuable component of an edition. Its a shame to see Ubisoft adopting this mentality of maximizing profits at the cost of customer loyalty. Shame, shame.

But by including the season pass instead of $60 more of trinkets it is making it about the game...
You said yourself you're aware of Ubisoft making a bigger edition exclusive to their store, notice that they aren't still stocked because people bought them, you included.
By your logic we should be asking why pay $30 when you can pirate the game, or just steal a copy off the shelf of a store, we don't need to encourage them by actually buying their game? If you don't want to spend $200+ on an edition, then don't, wait til the resellers buy them and sell them for double, that way you can be twice as outraged at the price, and we can hear all about it again.

If the contents interest you, but you hate the price, find someone who actually wants to buy the season pass and sell it to them. This is my last post concerning this, I've said all I really want to.

On a semi related topic, has anyone successfully claimed the Uplay 20% voucher, and used it? I claimed on Thursday and still haven't received it and would like to know how long it takes to receive.

[MattTweeks]

I'm yet to receive it.

And I have to agree on the reselling part.
With previous collectors editions, I sold the parts I wasn't interested in and you can easily make a tidy profit so long as you list them promptly on release. It's worked out previously that after selling parts, I had the game and statue for less then the game was retailing alone.

Needless to say, I purchased the big Ben edition, cane and gauntlet as soon as it was announced, but I'll probably keep all parts of it this time. I think the price is acceptable for something I enjoy and am passionate about.

Granted, I wouldn't mind paying less, but atleast it's not more then listed for.

Matt

[I_BE_WILL]

Originally Posted by MattTweeks

I'm yet to receive it.

And I have to agree on the reselling part.
With previous collectors editions, I sold the parts I wasn't interested in and you can easily make a tidy profit so long as you list them promptly on release. It's worked out previously that after selling parts, I had the game and statue for less then the game was retailing alone.

Needless to say, I purchased the big Ben edition, cane and gauntlet as soon as it was announced, but I'll probably keep all parts of it this time. I think the price is acceptable for something I enjoy and am passionate about.

Granted, I wouldn't mind paying less, but atleast it's not more then listed for.

Matt

Glad I'm not the only one yet to receive it, when did you claim?

[Romeo]

I've been reading up on the thread here. One thing I can say for certain is that if Ubisoft doesn't make up for Unity, they're done for. Not only did they take a huge hit from gamers, but also from the business end. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthi...-unity-launch/)

People are tired of the same old formula. Right now I'm playing Watch Dogs, and it's just a skinned AC with cars really. Same with Far Cry 4. Find the radio tower, opens up a new part of the map. A thousands collectibles! And in reality, which I just had this conversation with a friend on the phone last week, how long is the game really? The story missions in all of these games usually only take about 10 hours. Yet there is usually around 40 hours of content to 100% a game. But why? It's literally all filler, and that same rhythm is across every Ubisoft game right now.

With Unity, it's an extremely unfortunate circumstance, one that ubi created. Every year the same thing happens ad nauseam. Game comes out, I pay full price for the CE and LE guide, plus any extras, season pass, etc. Numerous glitches right out of the gate, such as the notification and gun swap error from AC3. It took them TWO MONTHS to fix it, long past when I 100% the game, so it was pointless. Those too bugs were maddening, switching your weapons every zone, and every time you fast traveled the same five notifications popped up. Then AC:BF. Same scenario. Worst glitch was one where it didn't track stats properly so you could not complete 100% of the abstergo missions. I 100% the game as a whole though to date I have not unlocked every cheat, because the game isn't counting my stats, even post patch.

When AC3 came out I had a spreadsheet of everything I was buying. The LE game, LE guide, LE art book, Vita console bundle with liberation, all of the graphic novels, two art pieces from the Rock the Vote auction, and even the Adidas AC sneakers. I dropped $1,100 on AC merch because I just had to have it all. (art: http://www.fastcocreate.com/1681782/...-rock-the-vote)

Now most recently... "we can't put women in our game". What? You've done it for years. "We don't want a console war". What? No other developer has an issue with 1080p on PS4 and having a lower resolution on the xbone. Then the glitches... have you seen them?! They're 10x than any prior, they're game breaking! $100 USD macrotransactions, DLC from soda, shaving cream, email lists, action figures, season pass... and all for what, a game that doesn't even work after a two week delay?! Oh wait... no one knew that because of the embargo ubi enforced. That right there was an obvious sign not to pick up my preorder.

Take a look at Destiny. I've put hundreds of hours into the game until I realized that the developers themselves were intentionally sabotaging the game. At that point I stopped playing and it's been quite some time since then. I still do follow the forums and community though, and have been reading how nearly every single issue that was glaring back in January has now been addressed and even been improved upon. They seemed to have turned things around and I look forward to playing the game again.

On that note, I'm so glad I lost the urge to collect AC merch after Black Flag. I saw how greedy ubisoft was getting with the soda DLC, shaving razor promos, and just all garbage at that point. Especially when they took out the steelbook from the $130 limited edition game just to sell it separately. First time in AC history I bought the regular version, for $20 six months later after it was fixed.

As it stands right now with Ubisoft... Fuck. Them.