It must be because of the small difference on the price. I mean, if I am already going to preorder anyway, then why not just throw 20 more bucks on the game and get everything? It just makes sense to buy the Imperial Edition instead of the regular one, imo.

I trust Zenimax to try to turn a profit, and that's all anyone should realistically trust any business to do. Dropping the price of exclusives (or anything else) after people stop paying the initial price is, ironically, a means of turning a profit. That's why game prices go down. That's why exclusives get offered on digital stores. That's why digital stores continually rotate discount prices for different items.

This isn't a bad thing. I don't think less of a company that offers formerly exclusive items on non-exclusive terms, and I don't gripe if something I purchased suddenly drops in price shortly afterwards. It's smart business, it means more development money for ZOS, and it means that many things eventually get into the hands of people who would enjoy them but aren't willing to pay the initial prices. Sometimes the effect is a bit comical (like the aforementioned Founder title), but, hey, that's all part of the show.

Just keep living in denial. Most consumers don't give two ***** about the issue.

thats how i feel, its only 20 bucks and gives me stuff i like. most CE's give useless junk

no but they will care that the game isnt very good. But it wont matter because zenimax already has their money.

im pretty sure the 25% coupon has more to do with it than a crab.

So as predicted people complained on the forum and bought on the store

And they won't know that till they play and has nothing to do with the issues brought up with the SE and IE. Hate on what is known if you disagree with it, don't hate on something you have no idea of.

I preordered and got no coupon... Crearly the crab is the best incentive.

Crab power!

Obviously the Imperial is going to sell more.

Yeah they totally sold to F2P types, everyone knows people who play free to play games love paying $60+ for a game they have to pay $14.99 a month for. You are 100% correct on the fact that it will take 90 days for them to figure out they payed $60+ and they will finally figure out that confusing $14.99 charge to their card each month from that company they bought the game they didn't know they paid $60 for, then get pissed and rage quit the game. However, still leaving that totally inaccurate market anolysis.

I for one think this game is a great game , alot of damn good fun and will be around for years,

Totally agree. Lots of fun. And a crab.

Do you really think this is all a scam to get a few hundred thousand dollars (maybe if they are lucky) weighted against the millions spent in development? Illogical.

Agreed, people are just paying attention to this Zenimax company without recognizing that The Elder Scrolls TM belongs to Bethesda. Do these people really think Bethesda gave totally rights to Zenimax to do what they want without any sort of supervision?

So many people fell for it lol.

"Race" only gets you some passives in this game, and lots of them (the racial passives) might not even get used because passives you unlock questing are better in many cases.

Also, Imperials will probably not have any racials other races don't already have. Just guessing here...

The ability to mix and match which team and race you play is nice though; not worth $20 in my opinion. Some diversity in that regard is going to be good for the PvP.

I'd love to know what the total sales numbers are. I bet it's ridiculous.

So many people with crabs

Agreed on both. I don't know how big the sites this info's coming from are, but if they've sold 1533 in four days then numbers are looking nice. And they're not even listed as where-to-buy links on the official ESO page (at least in the US, presumably it's region-specific). One has to assume Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target have higher numbers.

i am dying to know also

bluesnacks, everybody! He'll be here all night.

Those numbers doesn't say anything about the "outraged gamers" really untill we can see the total number of sales after like a week or a few days after launch (and even that will be incredibly misleading). I mean, I know a few people who's not even buying the game anymore due to what the CE contained (they were skeptical to begin with tho I should add), and those people won't show up in the statistics (after launch) but they would have otherwise. And personally I'm not showing up in those statistic either because I simply haven't pre-ordered.

I mean, we need statistical data of how many potential buyers they had to begin with and what they end up with to even consider what the impact of their announcement actually meant.
There's a chance though that their economics department will share that information some time in the future

if ESO is a let down and svcks, oh well... wont be the worst thing ive wasted money on... like a $6,000 boob job for a girl who turned out to be a gold diggin $^#@& !&^#$ &#(@. but my son calls her 'mother.'

I would not be surprised by a million pre-orders before launch.

Did you get crabs too, Blue?

ouch