Da die Wiederverkäufe der Baldur’s Gate 3 Collector’s Edition 3.000 US-Dollar erreichen, verurteilt ein Entwickler Scalper: „Es soll jemanden glücklich machen, nicht reich.“
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*.