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The site simply lists the Collector's Edition as for sale alongside the standard edition - without one word what it includes different from the standard edition.
Apparently, the upgrade is available only in a box, not a digital download?
I hope there will be little ingame difference, never really been the fan of collectors edition, especially not the electronic versions which grants more units and more weapons etc.
That said collectors edition I dont mind if it included strategy guides, charts of the tech tree, little trinkets, stuff like that.
Sincerely
~ Kongdej
I tend to agree, I don't like when there's too much benefit in the game - but it'd be nice to know what you get for the $10 shipping charge.
I still miss the good old days where there was no collectors edition just a regular that almost always had a little "gift", like Pirates! that contained a map of the Caribbean and staff like that 
If a collectors edition come up for FE i would like something like that and not extra thingies ingame
Problem with normal editions coming with the trinkets is that the market has rejected it IMO.
When you go out to eat, having a waiter bring you water is nice, but people at McDonald's don't want that cost and would buy another place's burger.
There's a downward pressure on prices - a game costing more with those things might sell less when other games charge less without them.
So, it's selling people what they want - a cheaper version for people who want to spend less and a better one for people who will spend for it. Just like McDonald's offers a $1 value burger and a $4 Angus burger.
But more than that - publishers find other models make more money a lot than 'selling a game' - DLC that used to be free, subscriptions, F2P bonuses, etc.
Players who spend $60 on a new game they play for a year are pretty much at the top of the spending for a game - yet a year of World of Warcraft for a new player costs $180 in monthly subscriptions, plus maybe $50-$100 for the basic game and expansions.
Dragon's Age:Origins cost over $100 if you bought the game, and DLC, when released - even if it's now been on sale all for under $10.
Used to be, here in California, you buy gas, you get someone pumping it and washing your windshield and checking your oil. Wasn't that nice - then the market rewarded stations who old gas for a lower price where you pump.
Personal, I don't like they do that if something ingame that effect gameplay if pay more (I'm not talk about add on, it's been there when game out, Collector's Edition you can play mage or fire mage, while normal you can't play mage or fire mage, that is, it's just wrong and rip off. so if there collector, then it's should not touch gameplay or something part in the game. It's sort of not fair to normal user. Now on other hand if collector had something more outside of game that are not effect ingame and gameplay sure as map or artbook, ect, I'm all fine.
I suspect that it may have something to do with the fact that a lot of us are getting the game for free. On one hand, having a good collector edition would seem like a good idea to generate revenue from the fans, on the other hand, it also seems like trying to have the cake and eat it too if there's too much in there that normal players don't get. Fair or not, it's probably not something that they would want to discuss so I suspect they won't say much about it until near release.
Well, what about one who paid for like I do, I didn't get a free for this game. LOL.
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