Limted Edition

[theadamofeden]

in the computer at EB Games, there's a listing for Sid Meir's Pirates Limited Edition. it's coming out the same day, but i'ts 30 dollars more.
i cannot, for the life of me, find any information on this limited edition.
anyone heard of this?
-K

 

[Keith]

yeah tere was a post about it over at cutlass isle, it includes Pirates! Gold i know that and a special map, other than that im not to sure, im sure upon seeing this Jeff will fill us in though <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

 

[eobet]

I already own Pirates! Gold, and I also own Ultima `3-9`, complete with cloth maps, and they sold for normal price, so that map in the limited edition would have to be pretty f**king special to warrant $30 more.

The Ultima games also came with fake leather and parchment manuals, btw. and most of them had extras, like small Ankhs, coins, stones and stuff. Still, they weren't limited edition.

I remember that the Ultima 9 Dragon Edition probably cost me around $30 more, but that box was huge and contained every Ultima game ever made, extra poster, personal letter, a small ankh and chain, tarot cards and some other stuff I can't remember.

I guess limited editions don't live up to those standards these days.

PS. Origin wasn't alone in doing nice packaging. All Infocom games had tonnes of stuff with them, like fake newspaper clippings, a rubber centipede, passports, travel guides, etc. etc. etc.

 

[Jeff_ATARI]

<!--`QuoteBegin-theadamofeden`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(theadamofeden)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->in the computer at EB Games, there's a listing for Sid Meir's Pirates Limited Edition.  it's coming out the same day, but i'ts 30 dollars more.
i cannot, for the life of me, find any information on this limited edition.  
anyone heard of this?
-K[/quote]

Hi theadamofeden,

Bah. Thanks for posting this and bringing it to my attention. EB and GameStop usually set up skus first and figure out the details later. In this case, we told them that we expected to create a Limited Edition version, and they went ahead and put it in the computer to keep track of it, along with a "won't cost more than" price.

We're still finalizing the contents and pricing of the Limited Edition, but it will NOT cost $79.99, or probably even $69.99. You'll hear more official news about this sometime in late July at the earliest.

Best,
Jeff Foley
Atari

 

[theadamofeden]

thanks very much.
i'll be sure to spread the news to the coworkers.
-K

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

Thanks for the info, Jeff! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />