Thread: 1.0 CE letdown

how is the travel mug useful? it was made of toxic materials, you couldn't drink from it

Originally Posted by Majidah

how is the travel mug useful? it was made of toxic materials, you couldn't drink from it

Lead and embalming fluid... how wonderful it must be to taste that every time you take a sip...

Will there be a CE for ARR PS3/PC?

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.

Originally Posted by ZakarnRosewood

I dont want/expect much, just a little something to show that I have been here from the beginning.

Originally Posted by ZakarnRosewood

I guess one could argue that i got the opportunity to have the onion hat, a nice booklet of original art, a map, [and] a certificate ...

Originally Posted by gahoo

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.

Life is a journey. i have a few other posts where i kinda answered my own question before anyone else commented. I can admit i make mistakes. My bad.

as for the ARR CE, my son and wife are interested in playing and would like to get at least one more copy. Why not see wht the CE offers this time around and decide if its worth it.

Originally Posted by Platinumstorm

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 you 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].

Thank you for putting into such eloquent words how i felt. I'm not trying to be ungrateful or asking for recompense for damage done (i rescind my previous cry for something to differentiate, i got a stupid onion hat i can wave around while i ride my Gobbu. lol), i only hope SE improves upon what they offer in future CE's and that they let us know if they will be doing a CE for ARR.

The only thing I was ever disappointed about from the CE was that NA CE didn't get the map, because the map was pretty much the best part.

Compared to some of the recent collectors edition, it was very lacking, but you get what your money is worth, my fave was GW2, the 7inch statue is amazing, paid double a XIV CE though lol.

I got the little mug as I live in UK, turns out your not supposed to actually use it tho lol but i have plenty of times XD.