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Special Editions usually cost more and need to be worth the extra content. If what you receive can later be obtained for free, that's a sham if not fraud.

If they make it it should include at minimum special artwork and a way to customize your character to know it is special edition. Whether that is a symbol/color by/of your name, starting out with extra unlocks, or a special weapon (that's not play inhibiting!).

My COD4 SE included a nice little book with some nifty artwork with unseen concept and development artwork. It also included a keycode to download the official strategy guide. hmmm, maybe I should take advantage of that and go download it . . .

Anyway, NCSoft/ArenaNet has done a fabulous work of this in their GuioldWars games. The Collectors editions usually come with artwork, fold out maps, a trinket of some kind (hey some people like this stuff I guess and pay good money for it on ebay), and usually several ingame perk as well including exclusive emotes and specialized/customized weapons. Sometimes they even throw in extra keycodes to get into betas, but always include them for other games to sample.