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    I'm thinking of starting a Fallout collection since I freaken' love this series, but am just wondering about the value of pursuing Fallout 3 Collector's Edition. I've noticed quite a few games come in a "Collector's Edition" version, but are they worth it from an investment perspective?

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    Games, like any other mass made items are rarely ever worth it from an investment prospective. Fallout 3 LE was not a 'rare' collectors edition. The games release was too big for that to be the case. Heck, Amazon had them on sale about a month ago for like 30 or 40 bucks.
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    Assassins Creed is really the only Limited/Collectors edition that I haven't seen many of, or have been really cheap.

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    Yes! They are! I keep them next to my still-polybagged comics (especially all of the cover variants of X-Force #1!); my still-tagged Beanie Babies; and my boxes and boxes of POGs!



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    Who invests in games, anyway? For everything you buy that goes up in value by $50 you buy 10 games that go down by $30 each. You're better off asking strangers for money than investing in games and expecting to make a profit.

    Collectability? Not really there with most LEs. Game companies love the LEs but it seems like they always produce way more than demand. I think the Halo 3 LE is more common than the "unlimited" edition - at least that overpriced helmet crap version.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sniderman View Post
    Yes! They are! I keep them next to my still-polybagged comics (especially all of the cover variants of X-Force #1!); my still-tagged Beanie Babies; and my boxes and boxes of POGs!



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    Of course they're collectable. That doesn't mean they'll be worth a lot someday though. I kind of doubt most "Collectors Editions" of anything will be more valuable than the normal edition though. That tag usually cheapens things to me but doesn't mean I still wouldn't collect it if that's what I collected. It's rarity but moreso demand that will determine monitary worth, and you really can't speculate on that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by drogosan View Post
    Some of us collect for different reasons!
    I guess they don't have to be good ones or even grounded in reality either.

    If I've said it once, I've stated it a thousand times... Want an investment? Buy gold and/or silver (you know, real money) and wait for that lovely thing called hyperinflation to kick in. Or dig a trench and throw your money in it and set it of fire. Whatever flips your hushpuppies.

    I dig the metal case releases. I waited until I could find a LE of FFXII for cheap... Then there is Devil Summoner 2. The only release, AFAIK, is a real LE of 50,000. If I'm mistaken, I'd like to be corrected here.
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    I'd say buy CE if you like the addl content other than that no they're more a marketing gimmick
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    These day collector edition is not what they used to. Company charge extra $10-15 for game with bonus DVD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by smork View Post
    Who invests in games, anyway? For everything you buy that goes up in value by $50 you buy 10 games that go down by $30 each. You're better off asking strangers for money than investing in games and expecting to make a profit.

    Collectability? Not really there with most LEs. Game companies love the LEs but it seems like they always produce way more than demand. I think the Halo 3 LE is more common than the "unlimited" edition - at least that overpriced helmet crap version.
    For Halo 3, the "rarity"(as far as I have been able to tell) generally goes with the standard being easiest, then the Legendary Edition with the helmet, and then the Collectors Edition in the metal case being the harder one to find. But I haven't really seen Legendary Editions since GameStop got rid of them, I found one at ToysRUs though for $20 not long ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Icarus Moonsight View Post
    Then there is Devil Summoner 2. The only release, AFAIK, is a real LE of 50,000. If I'm mistaken, I'd like to be corrected here.
    Last I heard, people have reported their copies are numbered well over 52,000. I wouldn't be surprised if 60,000 is the magic number which, in all honestly, is quite high for something that was marketed as a collector's item.

    This is one of those things that makes me chuckle a bit. Not because I take some snide pleasure in watching people learn that their recent purchase won't appreciate in value but rather because I find it funny that publishers, particularly ones like Atlus (which I don't even qualify as "niche" anymore), know how to manipulate their consumers.

    Some collector's editions I actually do have an interest in and always look out for at Gamestops because they don't price used special edition copies higher than normal ones. The problem is that the two I'm looking for (Mass Effect and Tales of Vesperia) are actually not easy to find.

    So I don't think all collector's editions or limited editions are just a marketing scheme. But it's actually not too hard to figure out which are and which aren't. Some limited edition is only being sold online? Probably something with a genuinely smaller print run. Some "limited edition" on the shelf in noticeably large quantities? Clearly a marketing ploy.
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    Agreed, Some are truly collectable. Like the online only package of Skate 2 with a skateboard, which they made very few of. Or the Ultra Limited Edition of Dead Space.
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    I will admit I get CEs where I can but by no means for the collectibility- I just like the little extras (the Big Daddy figure with Bioshock was a particular highlight for me).

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    Quote Originally Posted by drogosan View Post
    I'm thinking of starting a Fallout collection since I freaken' love this series, but am just wondering about the value of pursuing Fallout 3 Collector's Edition.
    I was at Walmart yesterday and they still have the fallout 3 lunch box CE. So they can't be that rare.

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    seems most of them are far to common so much so that prices actually fall and stock piles up. They can still be worth it though and collectible for the sake of the cool goodies you get. But to truly be collectible and retain value it needs to be rare with a limited # produced.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TonyTheTiger View Post
    I find it funny that publishers, particularly ones like Atlus (which I don't even qualify as "niche" anymore), know how to manipulate their consumers.
    A brand new game for $40 packaged with a stuffed toy. They could have printed 100,000 copies and I'd still think the collector's edition was a good deal. Same goes for Fallout, the bobble head and lunch box are fucking awesome.

    What I hate are the not so limited LE's that tack on an extra $10 or $15 for a sound track CD or mini "art book" and then package it all in a card board slip case that's sure to get damaged eventually.

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    It really depends on the game. Last I checked, Border Down LE was worth quite a bit more than the standard version. And all it has is a soundtrack CD.
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    I've seen collector editions of the first Atari Neverwinter Nights game (the one with the shirt) go for over 100 on ebay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daria View Post
    A brand new game for $40 packaged with a stuffed toy. They could have printed 100,000 copies and I'd still think the collector's edition was a good deal. Same goes for Fallout, the bobble head and lunch box are fucking awesome.

    What I hate are the not so limited LE's that tack on an extra $10 or $15 for a sound track CD or mini "art book" and then package it all in a card board slip case that's sure to get damaged eventually.
    I never said it wasn't a good deal. It was certainly a good enough deal to warrant a purchase of my own. But being drawn to an item because it's priced well is very different from being drawn to that same item because it might appreciate in value over time. The latter situation is what I'm talking about. Atlus seems to know how to draw in those people even though they're actually printing 50,000+ instead of a smaller number that would qualify as genuinely rare. At first, I think people were expecting a print run no larger than 20,000. And Atlus, for obvious reasons, had no interest in dispelling that misconception. Atlus isn't actively deceiving anybody but they aren't stupid. They know how to play their hand. I actually applaud them for being so good at it as I would probably do it too if I were in the same position.
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