Originally posted by Mark Rein
Folks,
The only DVD version being shipped is the special edition and there are only 60,000 copies being made - 40,000 copies for North America and 20,000 copies for Europe. So I suggest you pre-order if you can! I've been told that once they're gone, they're gone and there are currently no plans in place to do a non SE DVD edition. So if you want the tin cover (it is a slip cover like the T2 cover rather than a full tin box), the headset, the two DVDs (with the second one having some great exclusive extra stuff on it) then you'd better order now. I expect they'll sell out before too long.
Also if you want to pre-order online www.ebworld.com and www.bestbuy.com are selling the DVD Special Edition for the same price as the regular CD edition. No it is not a mistake. You can get the DVD version from these highly respected retailers for only $39.99. Personally I'm amazed by that because they pay more for the DVD version and there are a limited number of them available. But we saw that same kind of thing happen with the original Unreal Tournament where retailers sold it at, or even below, cost around the product launch and eventually raised the price back to suggested retail price after the initial buying frenzy. GT Interactive, Atari's predecessor, explained to me that do that to build traffic among loyal buyers hoping word-of-mouth from satisfied players will bring more customers into the store to buy it later at a higher margin. Wierd but cool
Folks,
The only DVD version being shipped is the special edition and there are only 60,000 copies being made - 40,000 copies for North America and 20,000 copies for Europe. So I suggest you pre-order if you can! I've been told that once they're gone, they're gone and there are currently no plans in place to do a non SE DVD edition. So if you want the tin cover (it is a slip cover like the T2 cover rather than a full tin box), the headset, the two DVDs (with the second one having some great exclusive extra stuff on it) then you'd better order now. I expect they'll sell out before too long.
Also if you want to pre-order online www.ebworld.com and www.bestbuy.com are selling the DVD Special Edition for the same price as the regular CD edition. No it is not a mistake. You can get the DVD version from these highly respected retailers for only $39.99. Personally I'm amazed by that because they pay more for the DVD version and there are a limited number of them available. But we saw that same kind of thing happen with the original Unreal Tournament where retailers sold it at, or even below, cost around the product launch and eventually raised the price back to suggested retail price after the initial buying frenzy. GT Interactive, Atari's predecessor, explained to me that do that to build traffic among loyal buyers hoping word-of-mouth from satisfied players will bring more customers into the store to buy it later at a higher margin. Wierd but cool
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