Publishing Director Calls Out Shameless Baldur's Gate 3 Collector's Edition Scalpers | Push Square
Scalpers will likely always remain a pernicious problem in our consumer-focused video game industry, with the fate of the gorgeous 30th Anniversary PS5 Pro bundle a recent example. Michael Douse, director of publishing at Larian Studios, isn't a fan of the practice, however, calling out a particularly egregious example.
On X, Douse put one eBay reseller on blast, who was trying to get £2.9K for a Baldur's Gate 3 Collector's Edition (thanks, Eurogamer). The Larian director lamented that this CE «isn't a commodity; it's designed to make someone happy, not rich. If you're buying it to trade, you're only making someone sad.»
Plenty of frustrated fans sounded off in the comments section, but Larian is hardly alone in this. Sony is trying out some rather novel ways to combat scalpers currently in Japan, but until technology can solve this issue for us, there's always the good-old-fashioned name-and-shame, which, if nothing else, is somewhat cathartic.
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Who is buying this stuff? Have you flipped any of your gaming goods for fun and profit, and what can be done to deter the worst actors? Let us know in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
If you buy from scalpers, you are the reason scalpers exist.
Stop making limited edition tat and the problem goes away except launch products at first. Once your declare it limited, you've declared it's a commodity. Larian is part of the problem.
Collectors be collecting and fomo is like a drug for some people. I kind of hate this trend of limited production of some versions of games to try and force a fake market of collector's items.
But hey, if
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