Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a $150 'edition' that doesn't actually include the game, though you do get 22 inches of Rook's shiny blade

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A companion character in Dragon Age: The Veilguard regards the player with no small amount of skepticism.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is, regardless of what you think, bound to be one of the mostinterestinggames this year when it comes to how it’s received—starting with atrailer few liked, a gameplay demo folks weresort of okaywith, and a second, cooler trailer peoplehave liked a bit more. “Divisive” seems to be the word of the hour.

As outlined inthis blog on the EA website, there is, currently, an absolute downpour of packs and bundles for The Veilguard—two of which actually give you the key to play it. There’s the standard and deluxe editions ($60 and $80 respectively) which both get you keys, but everything else detailed here has to, repeatedly, stress to buyers that they’re just cosmetic supplements.

First up is Rook’s Coffer, or, as the copy confusingly calls it, the “‘Rook’s Coffer’ Edition (Does NOT include Game)” which gives you a 22-inch glowing dagger, a map, a deck of cards, a potion flask, and a die for $150.

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An image showing off the items in “Rook’s Coffer”, which does not include the actual game.

Then there’s the currently unpriced Vyrantium Pack, which has—hilariously—a steelbook case for Dragon Age: The Veilguard that specificallydoesn’thave the game inside it, a metallic print, a notebook, and a “collector’s rigid outerbox” There’s also an art book that has itsownstandard ($50), Deluxe ($100), and Bioware ($55) editions, the most expensive of which gives you some extra prints, an exclusive slipcase, and a different cover.

Meaning it’s possible to spend—taking the most expensive version of the art book into account—$250 on Dragon Age: The Veilguard before actually buying the dang thing. And that’s without taking into account the mystery Vyrantium Pack, which will (for an undisclosed amount) let you feel like someone who has purchased Dragon Age: The Veilguard, staring lovingly at the shiny yet empty case of a game you don’t own.

This whole thing is just sort of baffling, though I don’t know if it’s scummier than usual—I mean, look. EA is, just inherently, trying to sell you on a glut of fantasy tat that’s targeted at players with disposable income and space on their shelves. In terms of decoupling the game from these editions, though, I’m not actually sure I care too much.

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Slam the digital deluxe edition and the Rook’s Coffer together and you get $230 and, yeah, that’s absurdly expensive, but that’s mostly the point of collector’s editions. For a point of comparison, the collector’s edition forWorld of Warcraft: The War Withincosts about $180 and gives you the expansion, some digital goodies, a statue, a pin, a neat box, and an art book.

All this to say, this is mostly business as usual—with the only eye roll-worthy note being the deluxe edition and itscash-gated cosmetic guff. It’s just divided up in a novel, kinda-confusing way that makes me wonder if EA would’ve been better off selling all this stuff separately in a merch store.

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