Must...Win...
Check this thing out, straight out of PAX 2009. This is the Fortune Hunter Edition of Uncharted 2. It comes with a signed copy of the game, a "host of downloads," an art book, and an exact replica of the Phurba Dagger with stand. The catch, you ask? You can't buy it in stores.
No this very special, very limited edition of the game is only available if you can manage to win one. How? The giveaway will take place on the PlayStation Blog, PlayStation Home, The Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Demo and a few other unannounced places. I'd wager a few copies will be given away through Penny Arcade, seeing as how the whole thing was announced at PAX. There has been no official announcement of exactly how many are being given away 200 have been made. Also, only gamers in the US are eligible to win. Sorry everybody else.
On top of trying to win one myself, I will try to keep you all updated on the various ways you too can win one.
Warning: Rant Incoming
I have to say, this is the way to do a collector's edition of a video game. I mean, anyone who actually believes that their "limited" edition game, that you and hundreds of thousands of other people also bought, is actually somehow special is drinking the kool-aid. The words "limited," "collector's," and "special" all imply a certain level of exclusivity. I walked into a local retailer and saw the "Collector's" editions of Devil May Cry 4, Brother's In Arms: Hells Highway, Resident Evil 5, Resistance 2 and a flipping Legendary Edition Halo 3. All games that were supposedly "limited edition" and supposed to be hard to find, sitting on store shelves months and in some cases years after their initial release. Fail. But THIS, this is how to do it. Put in a replica of something from in the game, (provided that this is a metal replica and not some plastic BS like the Arkham batarang) sign it, and make them hard to get. That makes them unique, that makes them collector's items worth having. That makes it worth the extra money...if it were actually being released in stores.
A little bit of DVD content and an art book you'd probably get just for pre-ordering the game is not worth an extra 40 dollars. A plastic batarang is not worth an extra 40 dollars. Don't even get me started on anyone who's actually going to shell out 150 bucks for what are most likely cheap, knock off night vision goggles. Does anyone else smell the potential PR disaster that this could become? I mean, yeah, chances are really good that most people who buy the Prestige Edition of Modern Warfare 2 will probably just muck around with them a few times, use them for late night paintball or peeping or whatever. But there's always one jackass who ruins it for everyone else. There's always going to be one idiot who robs someone in an alley, or starts robbing neighborhood houses with them, and then all of a sudden video games are the devil again. What's next? Giving out an M4 with Modern Warfare 3?
End Rant
Comments
there have been 200 made to be given away
Thanks for the heads up Kevin
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