{"id":469,"date":"2006-10-18T13:14:51","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/18\/collectors-editions\/"},"modified":"2006-10-18T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T17:14:51","slug":"collectors-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/18\/collectors-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"Collector&#8217;s Editions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember these being big things when I was younger. But now you can get a limited edition <em>Medieval 2<\/em> if you pre-order, two differently aligned <em>Neverwinter Nights 2<\/em> games with magic rings and a Collector&#8217;s Edition of <em>Europa Universalis III<\/em> with a soundtrack CD and &#8220;composer&#8217;s diary.&#8221; (Why the composer and not the developer? Is the music that good?)<\/p>\n<p>Being a sucker, I&#8217;ve already pre-ordered <em>Medieval 2<\/em> and will almost certainly buy the Collector&#8217;s Edition of EU3. I still have too many doubts about the NWN2 development process to drop money at this point.<\/p>\n<p>So, there are suckers like me who buy this stuff early and\/or at a higher price. And it&#8217;s sometimes worth it. I bought the <em>Civilization IV Collector&#8217;s Edition<\/em> so I could get the nice bible box and spiral bound manual, as well as the CD of music from the series. But would it cost that much to make this sort of stuff available to every gamer? Free the goodies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember these being big things when I was younger. But now you can get a limited edition Medieval 2 if you pre-order, two differently aligned Neverwinter Nights 2 games with magic rings and a Collector&#8217;s Edition of Europa Universalis III with a soundtrack CD and &#8220;composer&#8217;s diary.&#8221; (Why the composer and not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-7z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}