As re-sales of the Baldur’s Gate 3 Collector’s Edition reach $3,000, one dev condemns scalpers: “It’s designed to make someone happy, not rich”
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/baldur-s-gate/as-re-sales-of-the-baldurs-gate-3-collectors-edition-reach-usd3-000-one-dev-condemns-scalpers-its-designed-to-make-someone-happy-not-rich/
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My CE is my retirement plan
They should probably make more og them if that is the case.
Seems like a problem they created
Seems like a problem they created
Unlimited Pre-Orders with another round of orders 4 weeks after a games launch..
How hard can it be?
Unlimited Pre-Orders with another round of orders 4 weeks after a games launch..
How hard can it be?
Then don’t make them scarce
Scalper: but being rich is the only way to be happy, man
Just make more of them. Take pre-orders so you don’t get stuck with unsold stock.
I mean.. It makes the scalpers happy!
Like Michael Douse said, scalping ruins it for real fans. The collector’s editions didn’t seem to be about profit—they were about bringing joy (as cheesy as that sounds). Scalpers flipping them for ridiculous prices take that away from people who actually care with markups that shut out their actual community. Sucks to see it happen, especially with a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 where the community/players actually give a shit about the game.
An argument of *”just make more of them”* can be made, but the intention seems like it was to give collectors something rare & meaningful, not to fuel a market for price-gouging. Scalpers hijack that bit of exclusivity and turn it into a money-making scheme which deprives genuine fans of a fair chance at them.
I love these sorts of things for when they come with cloth maps I can frame on the walls. Throws out all resale value, but *makes me happy for decades*.
What if getting rich is what makes someone happy?
In this thread: a bunch of people who don’t understand production timelines.
If you wanted to make it unlimited preorders, you’d need to stop taking preorders for it weeks or even months before the game’s release date. There’s also a chance the people who handled getting those pre-orders produced are no longer employed with the company after release, so how the hell do you plan on taking more orders for them? They’re not going to burn money keeping people on the payroll for that. Not to mention, if you’re just going to make them available again later, you’re losing a ton of pre-sales, which makes your initial sales figures suffer, which makes it less likely your studio is even still open 4 months after release.
TL;DR – No, it’s NOT just as easy as “make more preorders” or “produce more later”.
Did they give these out for free then?
I got the Collectors edition and so far managed to get four of the voice actors to autograph the art book. One of them even joked that the art book was going up on ebay right after he signed it lol. It’ll happily collect dust on my shelf.
It seems like if there is a demand, then they should be willing to make more.
Welcome to late stage capitalism Mr. Developer.
It’s a COLLECTORS edition.