The 'Buying Dragon Age: Origins' thread.

[frogbeastegg]

I was afraid of that when i looked up amazon uk after i made my post. Absolutely terrible.

Amazon.uk are allergic to giving discounts of any sort. They're one of 1,200+ retailers on the Department of Work and Pensions employee discount scheme. When I look them up they proudly offer me a whopping 0% cashback on all of my purchases! One wonders why they agreed to become part of the scheme.

They're also trying to get me to buy a Kindle even though you can't buy books for it if you are outside the US due to restrictions on the inbuilt Kindle shop. Also you'd need a power converter before you could plug it in to charge. Oh - and you'd get hit for massive customs charges! And they advertise this right on their main page too.

I don't know how "bare-bones" the retail Dragon Age will be, since it's not out yet.

I've seen a few folk talking about their advance review copies. It seems like a massive game, they're estimating around 60 hours to complete it on one of the several paths.

I'm quite disgusted by the Game exclusive nature of the collector's edition. They're an expensive place these days to say the least. I only want the extra items and the base game, I don't care about art books and stuff.

EDIT: Heh, by some coincidence the one who's talking the most about his Dragon Age review copy mentioned how long he's played: 121 hours and still increasing. He doesn't say how much of that was for a single playthrough but he does say that he's still finding new material.