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That's not very helpful Nulli recruiter.

This was priced way too low. That collectors edition was 150?I would have paid that just to pre-order this book. This was an EVE art book with backstory = $250. Really, $90 is 3 dinners with 1 friend in any big city.

CCP needs to look at their player base - older, tech, males... that's a formula for discretionary spending. People fly to Iceland for this game - that's not cheap.

Will the limited editions come with the ebook version too?

I am a pretty annoyed with the real marketing miss on this.

EVE is not a guerilla marketing company, it has no reason to post limited time offers in near silence without a precursor announcement to allow for people to adjust schedules accordingly.

Like others here I was waiting since attending fanfest for the Source LE. I paid attention to the posts, and as usual with lots of limited offers, its posted a day or two before I get my check to boot. If I had known maybe a week in advance it would be something simple, and many players including myself could have gotten one, nevermind the people who weren't railroaded due to timezone or those that bought multiples.

The non-signed limited lithograph was very much something I was hoping to get but clearly that just isn't going to happen. Kind of irks me as you spend thousands of dollars in appreciation to attend a party/conference in support of a company, only to have very poorly planned marketing campaigns happen on multiple levels, whether its a bad PR driven in-game campaign or no forethought of how things evolve when you release a very limited quantity item and no forewarning.

Erm.

Can we maybe have more metalevels of this book?

Something in between of the ultra-rare limited edition wrapped in genuine space buffalo hide and signed with blood of all EVE devs and the plain book?

I mean you will hardly want to increase the number of books after the announcement, but could there possibly be a third version with maybe somewhat lesser impressive ingame items & stuff for those who came a bit late but still want to feel a bit special...

Yeah, and how happy are you that a large number of fans eagerly awaiting this never got the chance to even consider buying it?


$250 is pretty steep. Leather bound or not, it is still just a book. The $150 collectors edition game cost that much because it has a crapload of feelies in it. Hell it has a board game in it, and board games generally run $30 - $50, plus there's a USB hub, and not a basic model either. Even if their market is similar, the contents aren't that comparable. While I admit I would have been willing to pay a bit more, $90 is a fair price for a leather bound volume and a few extra things.

I am glad you are happy you sold out so quickly but what about the 100's who did not have the opportunity to purchase because of the silent announcement AND time zone difference of the announcement?

CCP you really should issue at least a couple thousand of the limited edition signed litho graphs. I am sure the demand is there.

Wow, super **** move. I have 'collected' pretty much everything EVE up until now but missed out because of my work hours.. lovely. :/

Would really appreciate a larger run.

Hard to say. There's over 500k subscriptions and if you assume the average is 2-3 accounts per person, then you could also assume less than 1% of people got a chance to get this item.

I also think it's pretty **** move of certain individuals to gloat about the success of sales while completely ignoring the legitimate concerns of a large portion of posters in this very thread, not even an acknowlegement that the announcements were lacking and the release was very poorly executed. Nevermind the lack of foresight to produce enough copies to satisfy their roleplaying community.

But what do they care. They have us dangling like marionettes.

Well the issue for some of us is that with an E-book version available that is searchable and can be taken on a tablet, the only reason to get a physical book is if it's a very very nice book.
The Limited edition one is a nice book, the hardcover isn't bad but is still fairly ordinary. Then of course there's the fact the hardbound isn't a collectors item.

Sure it may sound demanding or like splitting hairs, but it is what it is.