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Not worth the current price; appears rushed to make the holidays and not finished.
The all black color of it makes it look like a blank. It does not have any texture. It is just plain plastic. If I saw this in game I would assume there was a bugged ghost skin. They could have at least included decals to put on it. It just looks like it was rushed to packing before it could be painted.
It's a cheap speaker. It doesn't have its own mic so you have to have it pretty close to an Echo for use or else the Echo just does the Ghost dialogue through the Echo itself. The speaker in it was okay enough to hear the dialogue.
The documentation is lacking. It doesn't tell you what the mode button does.
Things I wish it had:
I wish you could at least activate by just saying "Ghost" instead of the relaying through Alexa. I feel that could be remedied in the app or something simply by having the Echo know that when I say "Ghost, what is my clan status?" that it knows I mean the ghost and kicks it over to that ghost app.
I wish it had Bluetooth and mic so that I could at least use it as a speaker phone and thus give me some value for what I paid.
I wish it was painted.
I think this would be appropriately priced at around $49. That's steep in some respects but I feel that's a fair price for what was delivered and still understanding I am paying a premium for it being a game prop.
*An afterthought: Considering an Echo Dot is full price $49. I totally would have been happy paying $89 for a Ghost with the same guts and functionality as an Echo Dot. Even if the device ended up larger in scale than in game. (I have seen online 3D printed Echo Dot cases that look like Ghost.)
December 2017 · Electronics · verified purchase