Deluxe Edition an absolute insult?

You only have yourself to blame, you're the one that bought it.  Right?

I'm still loving the Pathfinder Pioneer myself. It's basically a starter Valkyrie but I can still build more since you get the mats as well, and for some reason I have yet to let go of the Deep Space Explorer armor (and probably never will), though I use the pathfinder helmet now. I enjoy the casual outfit as well. I can take or leave the pyjak, but at least Ryder's dialogue to it doesn't bug out like Shepard did with the Fenris mech. She'd say something like "Good dog" and "Stay" at the same time, most of the time. In any case, I did it primarily for the soundtrack, so no regrets I guess.

Same here   Also for the hoodie, but  pyjak was more important.
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I'm a Bioware detractor, but it sounds like I'd agree with them here. Ive never liked collector's editions that give out gear on the front end that obviates the normal processes of finding and/or creating things at the appropriate level for the game. I much prefer bonus content that's interesting or colorful, rather than overpowered.

If that's the approach they took toward the CE, huzzah for Bioware!

Well, that was uncomfortable. Time to settle back into my normal mix of disgust and amusement.

We seriously need storage on board the tempest, instead of having to lug everything around through every map.

It's something Bioware keeps forgetting in every game so far: a lot of players are HOARDERS, and like to keep rare and unique designs.
The Mass Effect games always suffered this problem, and so did KotOR, Dragon Age, you name it. The Dragon Age games very notably ALL had storage either added or increased with their DLCs.

Why not just craft a higher level version then if the weapon is that important to you? They never said anything about the weapons scaling to your level, but at least they give you a way to keep them at your level.

Really? I find the Pathfinder's weapons series are really good.
Too bad you can't research them more than rank V... (bottom of the lists of each weapon type)
The armors that give extra XP was also great for leveling early game.

Don't be idiots, the problem isn't with the collector's being digital, which I have no issues with otherwise I wouldn't have bought it.

I've had other digital only collector's that was will worth the extra cost, stuff like exclusive playable characters, etc. This is not even in the ballpark.

I can respect that you think the CE is an insult to customers and not worth the asking price.  I just don't have much sympathy for buyer's remorse in this situation when doing one's homework would have prevented it instead of blindly preordering or paying release day price for it, is all.

Nah, on my 1st playthrough, I got to rank VII on several weapons already..
It's limited only by level.