EVE General Discussion

I was expecting alot more to be honest. A unique ship with a unique design is the very least I would expect from a 10 year celebration COLLECTORS EDITION pack.

Sure, the golden pod is unique but when will anyone get to see that? :P I think it's all lame.

All of the contents are readily available on the market or simply not unique enough to make anyone bother with em. Tash Murkon Magnate? Just another skinned magnate. Meh.

Nefantar Destroyer? Meh.

Full sleeve tattoo for our Avatar? Maybe you should release WIS before including crap like that in a pricey collectors edition pack.

The only thing that moved my level of interest from 0% to 5% was the mystery code that gives you certain unknown perks in the future but knowing how CCP works, it won't be worth 150 €/$/£.

Also, the fact that you can't use the 60 day cd key to extend your current account is just mind blowing. The hardcore people playing EVE that might be interested in it's contents most likely have more than enough accounts. I myself have 3 accounts that I'm not using right now simply because I don't need them. I certainly don't need a new 60 day trial account.

The remaining contents are useless, I will never play Dust unless it's released on the PC.

Make no mistake, I love EVE and I've been playing on my main since 2004 but this is just dissapointing on so many levels.


The full contents are:
Tash-Murkon Magnate: An exact copy of the regular Magnate except for the name. The regular Magnate is yours for 409k isk. This should have a unique design and unique stats.
Nefantar Thrasher: An exact copy of the regular Thrasher except for the name. The regular Thrasher is yours for 1m isk.
This should have a unique design and unique stats.
Minmatar Rifter USB hub: One of the few items that actually matter but honestly, who uses hubs these days?
EVE Soundtrack: No CE is delivered without the soundtrack, basic item.
EVE Board game: Some might enjoy this, far from everyone though.
Mystery code: Will grant you stuff in future CCP products. Future CCP products isn't EVE, EVE is a current product.
Full sleeve tattoos and clothing: Lame, WIS isn't even out and you're releasing avatar stuff? U mad CCP?
Golden pod: A true CE item.
Gnosis BPC: Laughable. The Gnosis is readily available ingame right now, at a very reasonable price too.
Account CD key with 60 days gametime: Sure this would be a nice item if it was redeemable on a current account, but it's not.
Amarr DUST uplink whatever item: Useless.
Amarr "Templar" Assault Dropsuit Amarr "Templar" Logistics Dropsuit: Useless.
Amarr "Templar" Heavy Dropsuit: Useless.
Amarr "Templar" Scrambler Rifle: Useless.
Amarr Scrambler Pistol: Useless.
Amarr Laser Rifle: Useless.

Alot of useless items for 150 euros.

I don't know about you but I bought this for the Art Books and Rifter model, everything else is a bonus in my books.

The Board game will end up being the most used thing though.

Sure, some people might be interested in the art book and the board game but I for one play EVE to play the actual game. I don't want things that move my focus away from the game, I want things that move my attention towards the game.

I know alot of people who have bought collectors edition packs in the past, myself included, and I find that most of the real life items just end up on the shelf. You browse through the art book once and then you leave it lying around for good.

I'm not expecting everyone to be like me but I would still suspect that anyone who buys that collectors edition wants it to be super unique on every level, but it's not imo.



Of course, that's one way to do it but still.. wouldn't you want the CE to be so unique you wanted to buy it because it gave you something that's actually unique and worth keeping forever and not something that you will sell instantly because you can sell the "loot" and get a free Art Book and rifter device?

Still flick through the SC2 HotS book, it and the Skyrim one are under my coffee table and are pulled out for visitors. Started collecting them when I got the first Eve art book. Not everyones thing, but some games such as Eve's and Diablo's theres some more substance to be felt than just the game. There's the culture that builds up behind it, the want to see the lines of thought from when pencil first met scrap of paper to show the evolution and the weighing of thoughts that leads to what we have today.

Not for everyone, but for even a price of £150 its worth it for those books, they will be a treasure for the rest of my life and I know it.

So you did not know what was in it when you bought it?

So, your parents didn't give you the $150 for it...

Also, in other "box sets" you get FAR LESS, then what you get in this one!
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And how the **** isn't this EVE focused enough?

You get a board game who's sole purpose in life is to fund EVE.
You get a model of the most popular EVE ship.
You get a book on EVE art work.
You get a CD of a symphony of EVE music.
And you get in game EVE stuffs.

How much more EVE related do you want it to be!!?!?!!?!?!

We have a PS3 sitting there - never been arsed to play Dust, just not my thing.

The killmail will be for a golden pod, and it will show the implant that gives the user a golden pod.
However, the implant will not be destroyed and that person will still have golden pods.

You like all the little Dust stuff that you'll never use?

OK what I want are responses from people who aren't complete fanboys of CCP.

What you just said was basically this:

"Yeah I love it all, I don't care what useless crap they throw at me, as long as it's from CCP it's all good."

You will NEVER use it, just using your words. Think about that for more than one nano second.

People who are not "complete fanboys" would probably not even consider buying the CE. I know I didn't. These things are always full of pointless crap.