.... This is it?



343 Industries better lower these high prices, then. I've got the Limited Collector's Edition on pre-order right now, but I'm not really interested in paying $250 for as little as a John/Locke statue, a probably mediocre animated series, one of those dinky craft models of a Guardian, a steelbook with no disc (including a disc and a digital download would increase value for me, inversely), what will probably be a piece of paper that simply says "Find the Master Chief - Signed, CINCONI Osman", and dossiers that will probably contain the exact same information we're seeing in Game Informer right now. This swag would be okay - simply okay - for $150, but $250? They need to either cut the price or add a handful of weapon or armor skins as goodies for this edition - exclusive player customization available universally across retailers is always a good thing to me. Oh, and that disc better be in the steelbook along with a download code. How can this possibly be a "collector's edition" of a game without even featuring a disc to collect?



I'm not even sure I'd be interested in paying $100 for the next edition down. A couple of in-game papers, a small (cheap) steel model, and an animated series for a story we already know is hardly worth an additional $40 to me. Again, they need at least one piece of digital in-game content to tempt us with.



I'm pretty disappointed. The statue is shaping up to be the only worthwhile thing in these collections (depending entirely on the character poses, dimensions of the statue, paint application, etc). I guess I might be marginally interested in a Reach-based animated series. I'm just not sure all this stuff is worth an extra $190 for my edition of this game.