Is there a reasoning for the Super Deluxe Edition?

I expect to get my Avenger II out of the first box.

Microsoft and EA are currently engaged in a pissing contest to see how much AoE Piss Splash they can get on their multiplayer customers

Not sure who's winning atm

Now say that someone for some reason wants to spend real cash on random-loot packs. Fine, it is their money. However, if you happen to buy packs from the store, you get to open them as you buy them. Isn't that just plainly better than opening a pack a week over a 20 week period? Who knows if the game will even last 20 weeks? I truly hope it does, but there are always some risks involved.

It seems like Bioware/EA came up with a U$100 edition for a game that doesn't have anything reasonable to offer for that price.

You'd be surprised how many P2W mobile gamers will hand over that extra cash thinking they'll have some sort of advantage. They'll also buy the UR weapons from the store with real money. And they'll still be worthless pugs.

The reason for this business model is that it works and rakes in mountains of shekels for EA. I've read somewhere that when they implemented a cash shop in FIFA, it brought in 600 mil. That's the equivalent of 10 mil. people buying your game. And as long as millions of people continue to throw their money at them, the business model won't go away.

It likely goes further than that. They hinted at weapons unlocked in multiplayer becoming available in singleplayer or something like that. So not only do they want to make the multiplayer more accessible to players, they also want normal campaign players to make use of the cash shop.

There's an old generation of players who grew up with the understanding that you pay for a game and get to play the whole game. Then came paid expansions which were often quite big and like completely new games content-wise. Then came paid DLC. Then came paid Day 1 DLC. And cash shops, often with RNG. Nowadays we have a new generation of gamers who grew up with these newer business models. Especially the RNG cash shops prey on weak-minded individuals who are predisposed to gambling addictions. There are mobile games that have players dumping thousands of dollars into cash shops just to get an advantage over everyone else. This mobile gamer generation is being conditioned to believe that pay-to-win is a completely legitimate and desirable concept.

Publishers aren't paragons of morality, they are businesses with shareholders who want to make a lot of profit. There is potential for so much profit here, that they probably get blisters from all the hand-rubbing. China of all countries recently made legislation requiring game developers to disclose the odds behind their RNG cash shops. This is, in my opinion, a step in the right direction and will hopefully lead to more regulation of what is basically a gambling business in disguise.

Luckily for us, the multiplayer will not be pay-to-win insofar as that nothing is locked behind a paywall and even the shiniest ultra rares will still require you to aim and keep track of your surroundings. However, the introduction of prestige experience and bonuses as well as them offering experience cards in the cash shop is another way for them to target the P2W crowd.

Personally, I don't have an issue with a cash shop as long as it meets two conditions: a) it has non-abusive RNG and is completely detached from the singleplayer campaign. SInce ME3 (and a lot of other major titles since) we can probably assume (a) won't be the case. They might add the possibility to buy things with some form of credits and compensate for duplicates like Overwatch but it'll still be heavily biased towards people that pay money. 

I did have hope for (, though, after they got a lot of flak for the shit they pulled with ME3 and the requirement to play MP for the "perfect" ending. If what you say is true, though, ( is out the window as well.

Guess it's gonna be Dead Space 3 all over again - with the same potential balance issues in singlerplayer to encourage spending cash...

No thanks FU EAware, I wasted enough money pre-ordering the bad joke that was DA:I, I'm never doing that mistake again. Only a imbecile with to much money to spend would pay for it, I'll wait and buy the game only if the MP is any good.

Geee, I don't wanna know anything about Microsoft, if they're comparable to EA...

Get this, in Gears of War 4 they are selling "Esports Supporter Packs" which cost $8 FREAKING DOLLARS for a LOW RNG CHANCE to get some hideous RANDOM Nationality Skin from the assortment of however many sad sorry pathetic countries are participating in Gears of War Esports.  For only a total investment of around $400, you too can pretend that you are an Esports Champion of your favourite country!

And people are REALLY BUYING THESE.

So half the proceeds go to support Esports, ok, still steep, but maybe someone actually cares about that crap.  From the looks of the forums, 99% of the playerbase doesn't.  Let's now consider the previous pack, which had a low RNG chance of getting a slick looking Blacksteel character or weapon skin.  Again, low low low chance of getting anything, people spent hundreds of dollars getting the Blacksteel versions of their favourite character.  What's even worse, not only were people getting up to 3 duplicate drops per pack, but these were 3 duplicate drops of LAUNCH ITEMS WHICH ARE PRESENT IN THE CHEAPEST PACKS WHICH CAN BE PURCHASED WITH INGAME CREDITS.  These Blacksteel Packs were $10 a pop.

Run the Jewels had a song featured in one of the game's trailers, so they got headswaps onto existing character models.  If you bought a Run the Jewels Pack, you were at least guaranteed to get these two headswap characters, but it cost $20.  That's a full THIRD of the cost of the GAME ITSELF, and it's two freaking HEAD SWAPS.  Not to mention they are annoying as fuck to listen to, have an Ice-T attitude with a Vanilla Ice persona, and sound like they are standing right next to you even if they are across the map.

Or how about that Halloween Event, eh.  Any other game GIFTS you with cool holiday items.  Microsoft instead opted to CHARGE REAL LIFE MONEY for RNG packs which had a low low chance to collect a holiday item.  The rest of the items?  See above, three duplicate drops of launch items present in the cheapest packs.

The forums are a clustershit of fuck with people actually arguing IN FAVOR of this shit practice.  And as long as people are defending and buying, it's going to get worse.  In fact that entire community is among the worst I have ever been a part of, even worse than World of Warcraft (if you can imagine that), and when I did a clean install of Windows yesterday I was glad to be done with it all.

This deluxe edition with be totally worth it if I had a mech dog that would shit out thermal clips for me during multiplayer adventures.

Base game for me, if I get it. If the MP is any good, I'll get it fairly shortly after it comes out. If SP is good and MP is bad, I'll get it on sale much later.

I definitely will not spend real money to "speed" the acquisition of virtual weapons. The Super Deluxe Edition is borderline insulting - but there are plenty of people out there with more money than brains.

Just a little strategic thinking here, in case anyone DOES buy the deluxe edition.

DON'T OPEN YOUR FREE PACKS RIGHT AWAY.

If they are the equivalent of PSPs, you don't want to open them up and get common items out of them. Stockpile them up while you are buying the equivalent of Recruit Packs in the meantime, then once you've maxed out your common stuff THEN open all your free packs at once, 20 weeks later.

...Assuming they haven't found some other way to fuck us, that is.