Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Also, the general idiocy of giving someone money sight-unseen aside, the best argument against pre-ordering is the chopping up of all the fucking content just so different places can have different bonuses. Not least when the publisher will usually 'generously' offer to sell you the other bonuses as DLC later. It's anti-consumer bullshit and you're all turkeys voting for Christmas.
I have never yet seen an example of that being something important/useful/fun instead of pointless digital tat or yet another cookie-cutter side mission. I'm sure the publishers love it, but as far as I've seen, the games developers view it as an exercise in box-ticking to be completed via some scraps of phoned-in leftovers that would otherwise have been cut from the game.
Arkham Knight had an entire story DLC for Red Hood (which was also the only time the character appeared in the game) which, as a pre-order bonus, was only available from Gamestop. And, of course, was paid DLC for everyone else. Whether that hits your definition of "cookie-cutter side mission" is up to you but it's still a bullshit practise either way.
ETA: similarly, Tesco and some other set of missions:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011 ... -exclusive