Apparently the second most interesting thing seen these past two days, to judge by Twitch chat (the first being the toaster), was the tin box on the coffee table where the presenters sat for the Guild Chat segments. I said I’d take a picture of mine to share and explain, and one person thought that was a nice idea, so here ‘tis. Apologies for the graininess and dimness, even with the lights blasting in my bathroom it is after all night time and there’s only so much my tablet can manage. It’s a tablet, not a camera, darn it!
The explanation: The original GW2 Collector’s Edition was a fairly large cubical cardboard box, to accommodate the Rytlock statue. The meat of the items, though, were in a large flat tin box with the map of Tyria in topographical relief on top. I said in Twitch chat that my box was empty but when I picked it up, lo and behold, inside were the “soundtrack” and the “making of” book. I put “soundtrack” in quotes because, well, it was a tiny little sampler of a minute or two each of maybe five songs. The soundtrack having been the selling point that tipped me from digital purchase to physical CE, I was rather saddened by this … but hey, I have a very cool tin box still.
If you want better pictures I am sure you can google up “images guild wars two collectors edition.” I just did and found http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/featured/ncsoft/guildwars2/unboxing/complete610.jpg as one sample.
