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One million dollar game

Link to GAME page, any one got a million dollars?

Partially funny, but I'm pretty sure that totals in at one million dollars anyways, what sort of nonsense are you trying to pull GAME!!

4. Koch Media especially reserve the right to remove or amend contents of the Super Dangerous Wad Wad edition.

Gem from the terms and conditions part.

Edit: Also for the lazy.


For the workblocked:
Virgin Galactic Space Flight
Full-sized Dub-Step gun replica
Hostage rescue experience
plastic surgery
spy training day
personal shopper
capsule wardrobe
7 nights at the top royal suit at the Burj-Al-Arab, Dubai
A week for two at the Jefferson in Washinton DC
First class flights to Washington and Dubai
Lamborghini Gallardo
New Toyota Prius +1 year insurance
A years super car membership

And Saints Row 4 Commander in Chief edition of course.

I wonder if that turns out to be a discount for all that stuff, so the eccentric billionaire can save a few bucks.

All of that sounds awesome... *EXCEPT* for the plastic surgery.
Mind you, most millionaires are not silly enough to blow all that cash on all of this... either they're lottery winners and this would eat a majority out of the "early retirement fund", or they've made substantial money off their own back and could probably arrange to pick and choose similar prizes to their own specifications for cheaper. After all, it's not *what* you know...

Well...

That sure screws the special edition collector in me

I think someone priced it out, and not including the plastic surgery or the shopping (as those could fluctuate) it only comes out to under 700,000 dollars.

 Alfndrate wrote:
I think someone priced it out, and not including the plastic surgery or the shopping (as those could fluctuate) it only comes out to under 700,000 dollars.

Really? I'd love to see a source on that that breaks it down. If true, it's... well, ridiculous. The shopping is actually a personal shopper - that is, it's an assistant that does your shopping for you - so that could be (generously!) priced at $30-40k if we assume a year. That leaves $260-70k for the plastic surgery... O.o

Go home Deep Silver, you are drunk.

 Super Ready wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
I think someone priced it out, and not including the plastic surgery or the shopping (as those could fluctuate) it only comes out to under 700,000 dollars.

Really? I'd love to see a source on that that breaks it down. If true, it's... well, ridiculous. The shopping is actually a personal shopper - that is, it's an assistant that does your shopping for you - so that could be (generously!) priced at $30-40k if we assume a year. That leaves $260-70k for the plastic surgery... O.o

Okay...

All prices are in USD:

Saints Row IV Commander In Chief Edition: $59.99 (Source)
Virgin Galactic space flight: $250,000 (Source)
Full-size replica dubstep gun: $500 (estimated value)
Hostage rescue experience: $200.36 (£129 - Source)
Plastic surgery: $7,311 (lower body lift, national average - Source)
Spy training day: $155.30 (£99.99 - Source)
Personal shopper: $39,000 (Annual membership - Source)
Capsule wardrobe: $12,104.30 (Source)
7 nights at the Top Royal Suite at the Burj Al-Arab, Dubai: $19,057.99 (AED70,000 - Source)
A week for two at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington DC: $56,000 (Martha Jefferson Suite - Source)
First-class flight to Dubai: $1,984.15 (Virgin Atlantic Luxury Class, from London)
First class flight to Washington: $1,451 (Virgin Atlantic Luxury Class, from London)
Lamborghini Gallardo: $250,000 (Source)
Toyota Prius: $32,650 ("as shown" price - Source)
One-year auto insurance: $1,836 (national average - Source)
Supercar membership: 15,920.30 (GBP10,250 - Source)

Which comes out to a total of $681,074.69.

Those bastards!

The original price from where I found this list said the Martha Jefferson suite was 4900 for the week's stay. When I went and looked it it, it said 8 grand a night... I would almost expect the Dubai hotel to be far more expensive... Even if it tied the price of the Jefferson hotel day, you're still about 250k away

Presumably they're selling it at such a loss to the buyer just to prevent anyone who had an inkling of buying it to think twice too. =P

Though an eccentric millionaire could probably purchase a giant Saints Row statue for the excess should they choose not to buy this.

I particularly liked the fact that the game isn't free

And the case isn't plated with gold. Though having the disc being made of actual gold (or maybe platinum) probably would make it unplayable.

...Or would it? Hmn...

In theory it could maybe work. I just had to look up how a cd actually stores data and it's just minuscule bumps on the surface in a spiral. I couldn't find anything about it needing to be non-conductive or anything, so I guess you could potentially have a gold or platinum disc!

Please correct me if I'm wrong, my "research" consisted of Googling "how do cds store data" and reading most of the howstuffworks.com article that came up haha.

A CD/DVD, etc stores data on a series of tracks marked on the disc. In a conventional DVD player this information is read by a laser which moves along the disc to designated areas of data stored as sectors (ie areas of related data). So in effect its similar to how an old LP would work, it just happens that the laser that reads the data can move between tracks instead of having to read the information as one contiguous stream.

So as the information's just burned on a disc I would assume that the material could be metal. However I doubt it'd be a very efficient (metal is porous, so these would interfere with the tracks) or even safe (ie lots of heat would be generated) material.

Then again, you're a millionaire, you can afford to buy another copy of the damn thing...

Oh, though I may well be talking out of my ass. I know how the software side of things work, but the hardware's for the techies to deal with. =)

Haha I'm studying materials science and engineering right now, and taking a class on semiconductors this semester, so gimme three months and I'll be able to answer this a lot better!

This edition aside-- seems more of a joke than anything, to me-- I love SR4. Awesome game.

 Melissia wrote:
This edition aside-- seems more of a joke than anything, to me-- I love SR4. Awesome game.

Oh, we're not saying SR4 is a bad game, but the Super Dangerous Wad Wad Edition is just goofy as hell...

if I had the spare million dollars, I'd buy it (this is bad financial planning and also why I don't have a million dollars)

If I had a million dollars, maybe one percent of that might be psent on games at most.... so yeah, I get what you mean.

 Melissia wrote:
If I had a million dollars, maybe one percent of that might be psent on games at most.... so yeah, I get what you mean.

If you had a million dollars, then you'd totally know that I'm your best friend for all time, right? Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more?

 Melissia wrote:
This edition aside-- seems more of a joke than anything, to me-- I love SR4. Awesome game.

I preordered it almost a month ago, and got an email today from amazon saying they were having trouble processing my payment, due to them deciding to bill it to a debit card I deleted from my account when it was stolen two years ago (why they couldn't tell me this four weeks ago I have no idea)

It hasn't been dispatched today, meaning that it'll be sent out tomorrow.

It'll be sent out tomorrow, so (unless im stupendously lucky) it'll arrive after the weekend.

Monday is a bank holiday, so my month old preorder, ordered so I could play it over the bank holiday weekend, won't arrive till Tuesday at the earliest.

I am rather pissed off that I won't be able to play SR4 tomorrow.

You can hardly blame that on the devs though.

In true Dakka spirit, I blame Goliath.

EDIT: Oh, and shrike. Gotta blame both the victim, and shrike.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
In true Dakka spirit, I blame Goliath.

EDIT: Oh, and shrike. Gotta blame both the victim, and shrike.

And Ward, I'm sure he had a hand in it too...

 Melissia wrote:
If I had a million dollars, maybe one percent of that might be psent on games at most.... so yeah, I get what you mean.

Well hey, 10k's worth of games is a LOT of games.

 Goliath wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
This edition aside-- seems more of a joke than anything, to me-- I love SR4. Awesome game.

I preordered it almost a month ago, and got an email today from amazon saying they were having trouble processing my payment, due to them deciding to bill it to a debit card I deleted from my account when it was stolen two years ago (why they couldn't tell me this four weeks ago I have no idea)

It hasn't been dispatched today, meaning that it'll be sent out tomorrow.

It'll be sent out tomorrow, so (unless im stupendously lucky) it'll arrive after the weekend.

Monday is a bank holiday, so my month old preorder, ordered so I could play it over the bank holiday weekend, won't arrive till Tuesday at the earliest.

I am rather pissed off that I won't be able to play SR4 tomorrow.

Or you could cancel your order and just buy the thing now. Not like the preorder bonus' are amazing or that they want be released as a £5 DLC in future...

2 buck DLC if the current DLC is any guess.

 Wyrmalla wrote:

 Goliath wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
This edition aside-- seems more of a joke than anything, to me-- I love SR4. Awesome game.

I preordered it almost a month ago, and got an email today from amazon saying they were having trouble processing my payment, due to them deciding to bill it to a debit card I deleted from my account when it was stolen two years ago (why they couldn't tell me this four weeks ago I have no idea)

It hasn't been dispatched today, meaning that it'll be sent out tomorrow.

It'll be sent out tomorrow, so (unless im stupendously lucky) it'll arrive after the weekend.

Monday is a bank holiday, so my month old preorder, ordered so I could play it over the bank holiday weekend, won't arrive till Tuesday at the earliest.

I am rather pissed off that I won't be able to play SR4 tomorrow.

Or you could cancel your order and just buy the thing now. Not like the preorder bonus' are amazing or that they want be released as a £5 DLC in future...

I ordered it when it was £30, and its now £35 in most places, and £20 of that was an Amazon gift card, which was the only way I could afford it

I didn't understand this at all first. I thought it was all some in-game stuff.

I still don't think I fully understand. I mean... why?