Found out today that all EA employees will get a special version of Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (for PC) - the "EA Crew Edition".
It comes in a regular PC game sleeve but the art on the sleeve is made to look like red Christmas wrapping paper with silver text. A friend opened his and it’s actually a fully-unique package with a custom flap with a message from the CEO, the dvd-case has custom box-art and even the disc is a special Christmas theme. I'll link to pictures after work (of the outside...I'm not opening it).
The game is also a special edition - it comes with 7 exclusive cars:
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 Edition
Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S
Chevrolet Corvette Z06
Lamborghini Reventon
Bugati Veyron 16.4
Aston Martin DBS
Audi R8 5.2 FSI
It would be cooler for me if this were a console game but it's still neat.
I guess the question for this group is, from a collectors standpoint (and I don't know many collectors of PC games) is this interesting? Have other publishers done limited-edition versions for employees? I think EA has somewhere around 9000 employees so that's a fairly limited run...and they probably didn't make all 9000.