Capcom "Cautiously Optimistic" That Its Typo Troubles Are Over

[Dandark]

New plans to be unveiled shortly detail the selling of alternatve versions of each games title screen. It will be called "Title typo DLC". This will be followed by versions of the game in which characters names are spelled wrong, this will be called "Character typo DLC".

 

[krazykidd]

Anyone else thinks they did it on purpose? i'm sure some people bought it just because ot had a spelling error . Gonna be worth a lot in the future.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

WAT. That doesn't make any sense.

That's like saying that I am hopeful I don't kill myself tomorrow.

This isn't some gamble to be made, its your fault your spelling sucks.

 

[Scow2]

And making your lame typo box a Collector's Item? Same deal. People will save those for whatever reason anyway. But if you wanna look at it strictly from an official-Collector's-Edition point of view, then you guys need to give away something with it. If not, then don't call it one.

You really don't understand how "Collectors" items work, do you? For the most part, if it says "Collector's Edition" on it, it's worthless, as the Comicbook industry learned in the 90's.

It only takes one thing to make something a collector's item: Rarity (As in lack-of-quantity, not the pony). A 5-cent baseball card from 30 years ago can be worth thousands or millions of dollars now, even though it was originally intended just to encourage people to buy a stick of gum. An authentic American Golden Dollar that lacks the "In God We Trust" wrapped around the inside, or a penny from a certain year with an unusual copper/zinc ratio can also be worth thousands of dollars to a collector.

Pretty much, if there's a risk of something unique completely disappearing (In this case, Typo-laden Capcom game packages), then it becomes a valuable collector's item. Anything mass produced with "Collectors Edition" on it is merely a worthless gimmick.

 

[Artemicion]

At least they're ending the whole fiasco on a joke.

Though these days, it's not like anyone's sneering at Capcom anyway...

 

[Evil Smurf]

As Yahtzee said, "Capcom are not racist, just stupid"

 

[Weaver]

Even photoshop has a spell check in it now. I really don't know how this is happening.

 

[Beautiful End]

And making your lame typo box a Collector's Item? Same deal. People will save those for whatever reason anyway. But if you wanna look at it strictly from an official-Collector's-Edition point of view, then you guys need to give away something with it. If not, then don't call it one.

You really don't understand how "Collectors" items work, do you? For the most part, if it says "Collector's Edition" on it, it's worthless, as the Comicbook industry learned in the 90's.

It only takes one thing to make something a collector's item: Rarity (As in lack-of-quantity, not the pony). A 5-cent baseball card from 30 years ago can be worth thousands or millions of dollars now, even though it was originally intended just to encourage people to buy a stick of gum. An authentic American Golden Dollar that lacks the "In God We Trust" wrapped around the inside, or a penny from a certain year with an unusual copper/zinc ratio can also be worth thousands of dollars to a collector.

Pretty much, if there's a risk of something unique completely disappearing (In this case, Typo-laden Capcom game packages), then it becomes a valuable collector's item. Anything mass produced with "Collectors Edition" on it is merely a worthless gimmick.

You seem to think I don't know anything about collector's edition games. Interesting. Whatever. Most Special/Collector's edition are named like that because they come with something extra, even if they're the same price as any other brand new game. Battlefield 3 had the Back to Karkland map pack, Twisted Metal had Twisted Metal Black for free. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit had extra cars. The first batch of those games are the ones considered special editions because they give you a little something-something extra that the following editions won't have. You can even tell by looking at the box. Revelaitons is not the case; they didn't get anything extra with it other than proof of Cacpcom's massive negligence.

I'm not talking about collector's items overall. I know certain things that are rare and hard to find are considered collector's items, like comic books, like you mentioned. I'm talking about games strictly. The words they used, Special Edition, make it sound like any one of those special/collector's editions I mentioned (Both names are valid in games). Yes, it's gimmicky and false, so that's why it bothers me.So if anything, it's not a collector's edition, it's just a collector's item.

 

[Realitycrash]

actually managed to spell the publisher's own name incorrectly, referring to the company as "Capcpom [http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww180/GPpa22word/Capture-148.jpg]."

ok, i read this initially as "Capcporn" . . . i think i should get off the internet for a while . . .

Ah, hell, now I did it too..

 

[TheJayke]

I think I should apply to Capcom as a spell checker, it isn't hard to proofread, and if I save them being embarrassed in the future I must be worth a fortune to them.