"What a shame."
It seems that currently in the video game industry, Eidos Montreal has currently made a grave mistake and touched a nerve with it's core demographic, one that is absolutely fed up with the concept of rushed games and pre-orders at the expense of quality and having their story cut away from them for the sake of petty cash grabbing. An audience in itself that is still recovering from the Batman: Arkham Knight debacle that happened a few months back.
Dues Ex, one of the best cyberpunk stealth game franchise of all time is now under fire due to the recent promotional trailer that was presented earlier today, with the most ridiculous pre-order features known to man so far.
[video=youtube;eJkzcQDqbpE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=78&v=eJkzcQDqbpE[/video]
From what was shown, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will launch on February 23, 2016, and with it, multiple "tiers" of pre-order bonuses and a Collector's Edition that contains physical items and in-game content. If you "pre-order today!" you'll help unlock multiple bonuses, all the way up to a 4-day early release for the game.
Essentially they are promoting this in a fashion where they are effectively punishing customers who don't pre-order by not only cutting away content of the story of the game (a game, mind you, that REVOLVES around the entirety of it's plot for more than a decade now concerning the Illuminati), and also punishing even those who pre-order as well, if others don't pre-order alongside with them.
It's this poisonous mindset and scheme that is slowly killing the video game industry as a whole, where attempting to cash grab as much as possible has effectively taken up a priority over the quality of a game, and the satisfaction to the customers that wants to cherish their moments with them, it's damning to see how much this beloved industry has changed as a whole with broken-game releases and trying to rush out content for those who are willing to throw their money with the risk of playing something that is probably not worth their time.
This is probably one of the dumbest and ludicrous anti-consumer scheme that a video game publisher has done so far for this year, surpassing even EA themselves, which in itself is a feat.
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