1.0 CE letdown

[Platinumstorm]

Why, after complaining about the 1.x CE, would you come in asking about an ARR CE?

And as to the OP, you answered your own question/request.

I complained too but there are definitely things I would love from one.

High DPI, quality construction box [with no plastic cover], resilient packaging materials that doesn't make everything simply fall out of it, a real artbook, and something that could be useful to players who bought the CE and not just discarded instantly [like a mount or reusable visual effect], and a soundtrack.

These are the ones I have on my desk currently.



I see a lot of thumbs up for people happy with their CEs or somehow justifying the quality of moldy mugs, certificates that didn't work [and were silly in the first place], so maybe there's just a lack of understanding why people are unhappy.

Each of these boxes comes with their own special things, but among all of them are large high quality art books, high dpi boxes - some with intricate designs, mouse pads [the irony of not being able to use them because they're pretty], soundtracks, dvds or blu rays, and occasionally awesome USB drives like the Diablo skull crystal magnetic USB or the Starcraft 2 dogtag USB. I'd also like to mention Hellgate London's high quality box/packaging.

There are more I could list, but hopefully that enlightens some people to the disappointment surrounding the CE, whether with regards to the packaging [FFXIV's looks cheaply made, was damaged straight from shipping because of the flimsy materials used in its construction, and the horrible plastic covering necessary to keep everything from falling out because they didn't design the packaging nicely, moldy mugs for Europe, the ridiculously small "journal" which some people refer to as an "artbook," the downright silly certificate or the DVD filled with many jokes told with straight faces. The one obvious benefit of the FFXIV CE is having the buddy "passes" aka full fledged CD keys.

If I can't convince some of you [not the quoted poster] of the quality of other CE's compared to FFXIV's from that, there is just no way I can convince you. Heck, I think the Legacy offers are better than the CE [in fact, amazingly cool].