Originally Posted by txa1265 
I never find the value in the CE editions, but that is me .. the only thing I occasionally miss is soundtrack CD's and you can find those after a bit separately, at least on eBay.
I actually quite agree, but for me it's a bit of sentimentality I think. Once in a while I pick a game I consider important to me and I cough up the dough for a collectors edition. Beyond the reasons I mentioned earlier in this thread, I really get little out of it. Generally I find the goodies in CEs to be pretty worthless.
Maybe a little bit of me wants for the days of (nice) cloth maps and little ankhs rattling around in my new purchase again like I had as a lad.