10 "Deluxe Editions" Of Video Games That Insulted Fans

The Bulletstorm Epic Edition was entirely Epic Games trading on the hype for a different game. This edition of overblown FPS Bulletstorm came with some relatively meaningless additional rewards like some in-game cosmetic DLC and an experience point boost of 25k for the multiplayer mode, but the main draw was plain to see.

Epic Games promised access to the Gears of War 3 beta with this day one release edition, making the Epic edition effectively a glorified pre-order incentive and nothing more. It's either a genius marketing movie, or it was a manipulative way of shifting extra copies of Bulletstorm before it inevitably dropped in price. It's a shame that Epic didn't have more faith in Bulletstorm; for all its crass humour and ballsy exterior, it was a robust arcade FPS experience, even if its sales numbers were disappointing post-launch.

To its credit, the Epic Edition of Bulletstorm didn't promise anything else apart from the beta invite to Gears 3, but even still, it feels a bit of a let-down to be promised a "better" edition of an upcoming game only for it to literally contain a limited-time reward. At least it didn't retail for much more than the base game did.