You mean like the version.. that has the game included? That cost $190? I can buy the $190 that has the game and the CE.

Or I can get a GCU best guy for less, amazon prime for less, or used for less.. and then buy the CE also. All resulting in costing less than $190 - thus a point in buying it.

It would be liking instead of ordering a Happy meal.. you just order a soft drink and fries. You know - options? Get what you want, how you want it, while playing less to get it?

Or instead of having to buy a complete outfit - you just buy the pants. You have the option to get everything, or something. You lose nothing - while gaining the option.. to choose what you want.

Yeah, but in that one you get the game!

You know that statue in it? You can still look at it. The patch? You can still use it. The box art? You can still look at it. Steel book? Yep you guessed it.

That cloth poster? Wow what do you know - you can STILL LOOK A T IT. The playing cards? Yep.

The only thing in there that you can't actually use is the DLC. Which you could (if you wanted to) give to someone else - after looking at the tube it comes with.

So of the 8 things it comes with, you can look at/use SEVEN out of EIGHT of them. And that is assuming you aren't just going to give the DLC away(which makes it 8 out of 8).

My question to you would be - whats the problem? How is this a bad thing? want the game with it? Buy the game. Want the game IN the CE - buy the CE with the game. Just want the game? Just buy the game.

You are absolutely losing NOTHING while gaining another option. So how is it bad to get an extra option - without losing ANYTHING in return?

Yeah and buying a car without the engine or steering wheel you can still sit in the driver's seat and fasten the seatbelt you just won't go anywhere and your purchase would be useless much like this as the purpose of the car is to transport you much like the CE is meant to compliment the game's experience problem here is the game's experience is not included.

You need to study the actual point of having options as they're not there for the sake of being there they exist because of viable reasons not because you can buy something to look at a statue, seriously dude that part made me laugh hard that you're buying a CE of a game to look at a statue or the art on the box which defeats the whole point of buying games. 

The analogies you've been using make no sense.  People buy a statue to display.  You can't play a statue.  This isn't the body of a car being sold without an engine.  A statue and a game are not dependent on one another to work.  In no way shape or form do you need to buy the two pieces from the same place or at the same time for them to function.

Someone wants to buy a CD key from an online retailer for $40 and then this SKU from Amazon?  It works exactly the same as if they bought them together.

It blows my mind the things people complain about. 

Then what would you call the other Battle 1 Collector's editions that DO come with the games? Including the $190 one, and  the $220 one.

The analogies you've been using make no sense.  People buy a statue to display.  You can't play a statue.  This isn't the body of a car being sold without an engine.  A statue and a game are not dependent on one another to work.  In no way shape or form do you need to buy the two pieces from the same place or at the same time for them to function.

Someone wants to buy a CD key from an online retailer for $40 and then this SKU from Amazon?  It works exactly the same as if they bought them together.

It blows my mind the things people complain about. 

The analogy makes perfect sense you and jim bob here just don't have any legitimate response to it, a statue may not be dependent on a game but a CE of a game is hence why it's called Battlefield 1 collector's edition, take your time the hint is in the name. This isn't buying a statue this is buying an edition of a game that comes with out the game, like I said before it's not rocket science on why it's comical if you still can't figure it out don't worry about it jog on.

I notice a common trend among people upset about this. It is that can't answer why they are upset about it, or really answer any questions at all.

If I don't have the system - I can't play the game. Just like if I buy the ce without the game - I can't play the game.

Not to mention you seem to lack the ability to separate yourself from the issue. Do you actually think people aren't buying CEs? Do you think people aren't buying CEs with statuses?

Why would CEs even exist - if all people wanted was the game?

I can see you... lack the ability to actually have any discussions what so ever. You can't express yourself well, you can't answer any questions, you haven't read any of the thread - and you can't think from the standpoint of another person.

Explainings the basics of this are simply a waste of my time when there are 100+ in this thread, most of them explaining why this is a good thing and that there is no bad thing what so ever. So I will not be responding to you anymore - have a good day.