[quote name='HisDivineShadow']I did the calculation. The Digital Deluxe is $20, but of course the game will go free. So I say, the month is worth the $15. The statue worth $5, the digital content worth $5, and so I'm at $25. Then toss in the authenticator. That's $5.
$30. Of course, the statue is nicer than $5 worth of material, so really you're doing pretty good. Plus, you get easy access to unique stores using the CE and the authenticator. Neither store is particularly awesome, though. Still, more access is more access. You get a book, a soundtrack, a giant ass box, and a coupon for gentlegiant. Plus a coupon for Razer if you're into insanely overpriced gray Old Republic-branded Razer hardware (10% off $100 or more purchase of TOR-branded items).
So I decided to pick it up. After I just missed getting one of two CE's that were at my local GS's, I had to drive 30 minutes to another town and get one there. As I walked out of the dilapidated shell of a social hub that the locals colloquially called, "the mall," where this poor, misbegotten and forgotten Gamestop was unfortunately located, I felt the first patter of a raindrop. Looking up, I felt another. And another. That was when I sensed a disturbance in the Force. The universe was conflicted and much of the divine was not pleased. Somewhere, something felt I had overreached. My deal was too great and the universe could not let me have this deal without cost. If cost would not be money, then cost must be annoyance.
A monsoon began not long after. Dodging idiots on the interstate after the Heavens tried to impede my glorious mission by drowning my car with me inside it, I deftly navigated around fools sent to try and drive up the cost of my deal by including me in an accidental vehicular collision. They did their best to make that happen and kept pulling off to the side of the road before then expecting to get back ONTO the main road in the heaviest of rains. All the while, I cannot see more than one foot in front of my divine vehicle. And still, I pushed through wall after wall of water. Journeying through concussive waves of water and maneuvering around idiot drivers just to make it home, I believe the universe was appeased once I arrived. The clouds parted briefly and the sun shined down over me. My resolve had been tested. I was found worthy.
And as all 100% Genuine CAG'ers know, the true sweetness of the deal is not the finished installation, but the battle through which you persevered to begin it. I battled Father Time and Mother Nature to acquire my precious cargo and in so doing found myself a stronger CAG'er for having done it.
(Also, mini-Darth Malgus laughs at their pathetic attempts to keep me from having my precious.)
All $29.99 (plus tax) of it.[/QUOTE]
