Physical PC Deluxe version box?

It was recently mentioned via dev tweets that:

--PC Deluxe is digital only
--boxed PS4/XBone Deluxe are releasing in North America only
--there may be a digital deluxe upgrade, but not yet unconfirmed

I was bitching about this in another thread. I even noticed you can get the completely stoopid edition from the bioware store directly for $260 with the radio controlled nomad and you _still_ don't get the deluxe edition content. You _do_ get a steelbook collectors edition box... which by default HAS NO GAME IN IT.

This is a very screwed up marketing run, if you ask me.

It did read as sarcastic, but I was amused, not insulted. 

I've pre-ordered the digitial download for the Super Deluxe version (which you can't get with the Nomad). I'd quite like the Nomad, however, so what I may end up doing is buying the Standard Edition plus Nomad and giving the game that comes with it as a present. Then I can put the Super Deluxe download key code in the steel book and voila

I too wanted this as wel lunfortunately only the standard version looks like is physical and that if you want the extra stuff you'll have to get it digitally through Origin I'm afraid.

Just out of curiosity, since i've never anything similar to that.
I actually wanted to go for the physical deluxe version of ME:A for the xbox one;
but since it seems there won't be any outside the US, does anyone know some store
which sells it & would ship to Germany?

Urrrggh, I really hate this since it means I'll be waiting close to a full day for the game to download.

Yeah, I get that. At least with Origin, you'll be able to preload it, right? Still, I had a gift card to a retail store I was hoping to use but then I won't be able to get the Deluxe version and damn it I want my pet pyjak!

Suggestion:

If BW/EA were really fan-oriented, they'd make the R/C Nomad available for purchase with a bonus coupon code when PRE-ORDERING a Deluxe Edition.

The pre-order coupon would allow the person to buy a Nomad for $139 (USD), and make it available for delivery before 3-21. There are so many manufacturers and vendors with such experience who would make this happen.

I think of having models of the Nomad and the Tempest sitting next to me as I begin the game and say to myself: "This is soooo cool." It is to weep (Hands in face). Again we see missed corporate marketing opportunities, self-inflicted wounds, and needless disappointment/frustration for the fans. Geesh.

Then, the Nomad could be released for open purchase after 3-21.

They'd make more merchandising $$$, wouldn't they?

So what did you expect them to do: make collectors editions for all three skus, trying to guess how many collectors sets to make for each platform and then having to end up dealing with the fact that one platform will no doubt end up with less editions than the market actually wanted while another will have had so many collectors editions purchased that they'll sit on the store shelves for a year until they hit clearance prices.

I used to work retail. Every time there was a multiplatform collectors edition, there was always one platform that never sold through and sat on the shelf or on the warehouse until the entire thing dropped to bargain bin prices just to get it out of the store.

Having a universal sku for just the collectors stuff is the far better option for everyone since it means people who buy digital can get the physical goods without having to buy another copy of a game, people who are on a less popular platform but with the larger portion of the fanbase won't have to deal with the fact that their console of choice only had 4 collectors editions produced while the other console had 57 with only 14 people who own that console actually interested in the edition in the first place, and retail outlets don't have to worry about 20 skus for literally the same product, with half of those skus doing nothing but sitting on a shelf and occupying overstock space that could be used for something that actually will sell.

The RC car thing is $200. If EA stuck a copy of the game in the box, the package price still wouldn't be $200, so it's not like it's truly costing you money.

And then if they did that, no one past 3-21 would have a Nomad and instead would be waiting for weeks, or months, bitching and moaning that they can't find a car when the production line wasn't set up in mind for continued production of a product and is now occupied with producing something else and thus has to be reformatted to once again start producing cars for regular consumer consumption.

And then they'd no doubt over-producing said cars based on "fan demand" and will end up with a bunch of RC cars sitting in warehouses and store shelves, unmoving until they're discounted in order to clear inventory.

I'm a bit pissed that the digital versions for Europe are also locked till the 23rd, but at least it seems like we can preload starting sometime on the 17th.