Should we cancel our Pip-Boy Edition Pre-Orders?

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I've realized that this "Limited Edition" Pip-Boy Edition of Fallout 4 is not very limited at all. It's only been like, what a week or two since the reveal of Fallout 4, and they have already distributed several hundred thousand of these editions to retailers. And it's still only June. We still have 4 months to go until the game actually comes out.

At this rate, the Pip-Boy Edition isn't going to be very limited at all, as everyone and their grandma will have one.

I'm thinking the Pips will be on Ebay for like $30 or so after they come out, as people will clammer to sell theirs after realizing it's not all that cool, and try to get some money back.

That being said, I think it's best if we all cancelled out pre-orders and just buy one cheap off Ebay or something when it comes out. With how many units they're making of this Pip-Boy Edition, it's not going to be worth a whole lot because everyone will have one.

The more you make of something, the less it will be worth.

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But did you buy yours?

I bought 2. One to resell to idiots on Ebay, and one for me.

"resell to idiots" says the guy who bought two expensive editions of a game, which will never appreciate in value to any impressive degree.

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I bought 2. One to resell to idiots on Ebay, and one for me.

"resell to idiots" says the guy who bought two expensive editions of a game, which will never appreciate in value to any impressive degree.

El o el. ^ This guy is spot on. I'm still waiting for my still-in-shrinkwrap Collector Edition of TES IV: Oblivion to be worth at least what I payed for it. Hahaha.

Should never buy a Collector Edition because of the value or rarity, but simply because you yourself want to be a collector of whatever extras they're giving.

I wish I had a CE of New Vegas, because I like what it came with - but the Fallout 4 literally just has the piece of plastic and it's case for an extra 60$ so for me personally it wasn't enough.

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I bought 2. One to resell to idiots on Ebay, and one for me.

"resell to idiots" says the guy who bought two expensive editions of a game, which will never appreciate in value to any impressive degree.

They are currently selling for 3-400 dollars on Ebay.

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"resell to idiots" says the guy who bought two expensive editions of a game, which will never appreciate in value to any impressive degree.

They are currently selling for 3-400 dollars on Ebay.

Good for them. That is not the value appreciating, that is speculation from people who thought it was gonna be limted quantity instead of limited time.

Furthermore, you might check the ones that actually have bids on them. Highest bid I see is 202.

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"resell to idiots" says the guy who bought two expensive editions of a game, which will never appreciate in value to any impressive degree.

They are currently selling for 3-400 dollars on Ebay.

I'm sure they're selling like hotcakes. All those products that don't physically exist yet.

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You souldn't even pre-order, because money will be dead weight for a very long time.
I only pre-order games that will release in week.

[GM Pax]

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Limited Editions normally aren't. You aren't supposed to buy them to make money on, you're supposed to buy them because you want them.

EXACTLY THIS.

I got the CE of Fallout 3, because I wanted the lunchbox and the bobblehead.

I'm passing on the LE for Fallout 4, because the PIPboy ... eh. I don't even have a smartphone to put in it. ::shrug::

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You souldn't even pre-order, because money will be dead weight for a very long time.
I only pre-order games that will release in week.

The game is coming out in November. It's currently almost July. Six months is hardly "a very long time".

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Limited Editions normally aren't. You aren't supposed to buy them to make money on, you're supposed to buy them because you want them.

EXACTLY THIS.

I got the CE of Fallout 3, because I wanted the lunchbox and the bobblehead.

I'm passing on the LE for Fallout 4, because the PIPboy ... eh. I don't even have a smartphone to put in it. ::shrug::

Thankfully a lot of gamers are starting to wise up and not support resellers. There's always a few who will pay anything, but they're a vast minority. For example look at the Majora's Mask 3DS a while back, the stock was sold out literally within seconds thanks in part to scalpers planning to resell it. Release day came, they put it up on amazon and ebay for twice the price...and almost no one bought it. Months down the line and a huge price drop from the scalpers, the stock numbers have barely shifted and the price only changes when someone gives up and buys one since nintendo inexplicably refuses to make more for NA.

Buying multiple limited editions to resell doesn't mean you'll make money anymore. Especially if you try it on a big name game that's going to be selling literally millions of copies. All you're doing is depriving someone else of a copy they might have wanted to pre-order while wasting your own cash since the value of these things has gone down hard in the past few years.

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You souldn't even pre-order, because money will be dead weight for a very long time.
I only pre-order games that will release in week.

The game is coming out in November. It's currently almost July. Six months is hardly "a very long time".

6 months? Damn bro, u suck at counting..

[Domenco]

Well Look at it this way : 500 thousand pip boy editions get sold and 9 million copies of the game. That is still only 5%. Then there is fact, if you want it, get it. So there is no reason to not get the game or pip boy edition before hand. In the end, it all about how YOU think about it and not how OTHERS think about the matter.

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You souldn't even pre-order, because money will be dead weight for a very long time.
I only pre-order games that will release in week.

Most places that do pre-orders give you your money back if you cancel it, still I personally only pre-order certain things like Amiibos and games that I'm happy to pay full price for.
Only reason pre-orders have a bad rap is because of publishers and their multiple different pre-order versions that you need a spreadsheet to work out what store to buy the game from (cough, cough *Evolve* cough)

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Limited Editions normally aren't. You aren't supposed to buy them to make money on, you're supposed to buy them because you want them.

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Well Look at it this way : 500 thousand pip boy editions get sold and 9 million copies of the game. That is still only 5%. Then there is fact, if you want it, get it. So there is no reason to not get the game or pip boy edition before hand. In the end, it all about how YOU think about it and not how OTHERS think about the matter.

Fo3 sold 4.7 million copies. You are expecting this number to double.

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Well Look at it this way : 500 thousand pip boy editions get sold and 9 million copies of the game. That is still only 5%. Then there is fact, if you want it, get it. So there is no reason to not get the game or pip boy edition before hand. In the end, it all about how YOU think about it and not how OTHERS think about the matter.

Fo3 sold 4.7 million copies. You are expecting this number to double.

In ~two years, Skyrim sold 20 million. I would say it is definitely possible.