You will see someone resell it with ridiculous high price, this is the nature of "collector edition".

Has an non pipboy CE even been announced? I would like to buy the CE, but I'm not interested in the pipboy doohickey.

Try searching the forum, this has been covered many times already. they are not making any more. a few places restocked them 2-3 times before they were sold out. this is why you preorder when they get announced.

Well... From where I am located there is still quite a few not many people are buying them but guys take a look at the brighter side you don't need any "collectors edition" for me personally it's just about having the game as a whole i have pre ordered a collectors edition but it's not the pip boy collectors edition but just having the game means a lot more to me than a "collectors edition" so guys try and not be sad if you didn't manage to pre order the pip boy collectors edition.

Well... From where I am located there is still quite a few not many people are buying them but guys take a look at the brighter side you don't need any "collectors edition" for me personally it's just about having the game as a whole i have pre ordered a collectors edition but it's not the pip boy collectors edition but just having the game means a lot more to me than a "collectors edition" so guys try and not be sad if you didn't manage to pre order the pip boy collectors edition.

Well I only saw the Pipboy editions released that one time. I had no idea it was released three times since the June announcement. I didn't have the money the first time I saw it was announced.

Nothing for nothing then the Pipboy edition should have been marketed as a "Limited Edition" and not a CE.

I also find Beth's excuse for not making anymore Pipboy Editions kind of stupid. The company making them can't keep up and can't continue making them? They should've found another company to do it then. They didn't have any issues churning out eleventy billion Aludin statues.

Neither did I, but I pre ordered it anyway, one of the few benefits with physical stores.

Which chain did you pre-order from?

That's stupid though.

Never have I heard of a Collector's Edition or Limited Edition being produced after initial stock (or even the very odd re-stock) sold out. Normally you'd be bound to whatever hasn't been sold yet, has been canceled, or sold online.

They manufactured plenty, and sold out. The factory will no longer produce any more for them, so that's where they call it quits.

I dont understand how them seeking out another factory to produce more of a limited collector's edition item makes sense to anyone.

Do you know how many channels and approvals Beth as a company probably has to go through just to get an O.K to seek out more production? And then to have to go out and find a manufacturer that will produce it to their standard?

Its done man. And its reasonable to understand why.

My local gamestop, both me and at least two staff members there have one bookt and so far, no dire emails about them being auto cancelled or anything.

Nice. My local GS shafted me, but I managed to grab one on Bethesda store on a restock.

Your gamestop did in store orders?

Mine was online only orders. I managed to get one and I just sent it there for pickup on release. Maybe just Canadian Gamestops had online orders only.

They indeed did in store, they had to do a custom option at first, as there databases only had a post for a regular copy, so technically in there database I ordered a regular copy and then they added a note to my customer profile thats its suppose to be a pip boy.

No, that's what my local shop did as well here in the U.S.

My apologies sir, but that is utter bullcrap. When it boils down, it's no ones fault but your own. First of all Bethesda couldn't possibly keep up with demand. They produce thousands of stock and sold out within two hours. I doubt they knew it would be gone so quickly and even if they did, I doubt they could keep up without bankruptung themselves. Plus, a collectors edition is something that is worth collecting. Even when you collect pennies you come accross pennies worth a lot of money and worth collecting. Just like you collect video games you come accross special versions of video games that is worth collecting (Pip boy edition)

Second, it's business my friend and it's not going to slow down just for you. You where well aware of it the first time it was announced. You could argue you had no funds but there are plenty of websites that won't charge you a dime until release. I ordered mine off amazon and I just gotta make sure there is money in the bank when it comes out. You can argue you didn't know they had second and third releases but that is your own fault for not paying attention.

Listen I can agree I would be as bummed as you if I missed out but pointing petty fingers won't get you anywhere. I am not in the buiness of defending game companies but when you're pointing a finger at someone, remember, usually you have three of your fingers pointing back at you.

@Tallest:

It is not "stupid" because Bethesda used multiple factories (as Pete said) and there are always limits to any product's production run. Other companies use the same factories, after all, and factories can only delay product runs for so long due to deadline dates for delivery.

General comment:

For products that have special extras for Collector's Editions, such versions are not made in vast quantities. You can't compare general collecting of something like pennies or stamps to purchasing a specific product with different versions, one with certain extras and others without those extras. The two types of collections are totally different things because one (product with extras) has to be decided to be made prior to the product being made while the other (pennies or stamps or similar common items) is simply decided to be collected regardless of the items being in general circulation.

For those who want a Pip Boy Edition, keep in mind that just because they are sold out at this point does NOT mean that they are all spoken for. Some of the sales went to people who will resell at exorbitant prices later and some went to various legitimate retailers who will be selling them off the shelf. Just keep your eyes open from Nov 10 onwards.

I checked the Bethesda Store every day for a week before I got lucky enough to get one in the brief out they were on sale again. Those things sold out damn quick.

I'm not sure if Bethesda made fewer CEs than they usually do or if the Fallout 4 CE was just massively popular.

I think it was a combination of issues since this was the first time I had a problem getting a Bethesda CE, almost didn't this time.

Anyone handy with crafting could make a cool looking one out of cheap materials found at thrift stores and garage sales. A junk-yard pipboy would be awesome.

If you could find an old Amazon CE pipboy from FO3 you might have a head start and be able to mod that. The clock that came with it was crap anyway.

I dunno, man. It seems to me there are a lot of options beside just being sad. If you own your emotions and channel that into creativity then it could pay off. Go into any positive cosplay community and they will have ideas on how to make one.

Hey Tallest, I don't know how many of these things they made but they vastly underestimated demand and they flew out the door. I checked during the E3 presentation and there was no CE listing on the Beth store or Amazon, went straight to bed and when I got up at 8am I had a message from a West Coast friend that she had bought one. Immediately went to get mine aaaand everything was sold out.

Fortunately for me, I have no life and was able to spend the next week online on multiple devices 18 hours a day and F5'ed here, Best Buy and Amazon until I got one but for people with jobs and families that wasn't much of an option. Even those alert services that are supposed to text you when an item comes in stock failed for me twice because they sold before the text could even be sent. It's frustrating.

It's not the same but there's a FO4 artbook on Amazon that would make a nice addition to your desk collection. Oh and the mininuke from the FO Anthology is still in stock on the Beth store if you like that.

Can we drop this topic, the repetative comments about the sellout have gotten so repetative the have sorted to clone themselves in advance.....

Can we drop this topic, the repetative comments about the sellout have gotten so repetative the have sorted to clone themselves in advance.....

Not for nothing, but it was. It was always labeled as the "Pip-Boy Edition," not the "Collectors' Edition," (is it "Collector's" or "Collectors'"?), and the images used to advertise it made sure to say it was limited. As seen in the bottom left http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/9be9d5a6784b24f224dc285dcc388e2f/202223043/Fallout4_PIPBoy_Edition_Content11.jpg.

As for Alduin, they might have learned their lesson about overproducing the CE. Not because mass producing them "diminishes value." I doubt most fans look at these kinds of things as something to sell down the line anyway, so rarity doesn't really come into play. But because if they make "eleventh billion" of them, and only a quarter of those get sold, they've lost a huge amount of money. Also, it makes them look like a silly company that overestimated the size of their fan base.

I'm curious, was the double post and using the word "repetitive" twice in the same sentence when complaining about repetitive threads intentional?

"Hello, it's the Department of Redundancy Department calling to inform you that we're calling about repetitive repetitive-ness."

wanna know how i secured mine? after the initial wave was sold out, i went on twitter and followed bethesda, then set it to send me a text every single time bethesda tweeted. then one morning my phone started blowing up with them announcing the second wave. so i secured it within seconds of the pre-order going live again. it was pretty easy to find out the info at the right time