Pre-ordering has become a subject of controversy recently. What people get when they pre-order, or more accurately, what is denied to those who don’t, has been used as ammunition in the war against rip-off game retailers across the internet.
What was once an innocuous way of showing your interest, guaranteeing a copy and giving retailers some idea of how many copies to buy in, has become almost a Satanic practice to some. YouTube warriors TotalBiscuit and Jim Sterling have both denounced pre-ordering and encouraged their viewers to do the same and boycott the practice
Games such as Mad Max, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Batman: Arkham Knight desperately deserve a modern-day revisit.
RDR2 still looks astounding on PS4 Pro. i cannot imagine how it could look with a next gen upgrade.
It's obviously never gonna happen since Sony killed the game and studio, but Driveclub. Even in its current state, 10 years after release, it still puts many competitors to shame ...
Mad max ikr! Far cry primal, it amuses me how ubisoft just left ac unity hanging, sadly most of the good staff left from rocksteady while being forced to make that abomination smh
One way or another, these games provoked strong reactions.
I don't think Days Gone divided fans. For the most part, gamers loved it. It was the reviewers who were divided. Self-loathing racist pieces of shit that took exception to the main character being white. This was a fantastic game, one of the best open-world games I ever played, and I've played them all.
For the most part, when it comes to Last of Us 2, incels, homophobes, and closet national socialist types didn't like it. I repeat not all, but most.
Days Gone is a great game and it was attacked by the leftist socialist people that are actually closet fascists. As a great poet once said: "Socialism is the mother of fascism."
The Order got hit from anti-Sony Xbox fans.
Out of these 3, Last of Us 2 stands above as being a work of art. It's still generating a ton conversation to this day.
Amazing gameplay, but TLOU2 had one of the worst, most convoluted and uneccessary plots I ever seen in a sequel. Terrible story and the characters were forgettable. I didn't give an F about anyone in the story.
I don't think any of these divided fans, other than LoU2. The rest were either victims of biased reviews or just generally agreed that they weren't as good as they could've been or just overall disappointing.
Shaz from GL writes: "Assassin’s Creed Unity is looked at as one of the worst in Ubisoft’s iconic franchise. But playing it nearly 10 years later reveals it may just be the best"
If someone wants to buy a 'Collectors Edition' with a statue or other physical stuff then that is their choice.
Cutting out content and then selling it as 'Day One DLC' is something I definitely dislike. So long as the content can be unlocked by playing through the game, I'm not too bothered by pre-order DLC.
Another article complaining about something that is completely optional. The "Entitlement" attitude of some gamers is petty and ridiculous. Businesses are in business to make money. DLC is a completely legitimate way for a business to make money. DLC is far more legitimate than the so called "Free To Play" model, but that is another story in itself. No one is forced to buy DLC. And you don't need DLC in order to win or enjoy the original game. This notion that DLC is a scam or a rip off is nothing more than conjured up nonsense.
I have several games on pre-order from Amazon: DriveClub, The Evil Within, Dying Light, Shadow Of Mordor, and others. I have Amazon prime, so it costs nothing to ship and if I want to return it, I CAN! The DLC is nice, but it in no way influenced any of pre-order decisions. If someone was actually taking something from you, like cutting your PSN or Xbox Live membership to 10 months instead of 12 after you have already paid for the 12 months, then I could see the justification for complaining. But to complain about something you have no right to have and haven't even paid for yet is pretty immature in my opinion.
It definitely irks me when preorder bonus content is stuff that could be considered vital to the game. The only games i preorder are games from franchises that i have been a fan of for a long time and either 1) I am as certain as i can possibly be that i will not be disappointed or 2) the game looks good and said franchise has earned my purchase of a copy of the game in question with previous releases.
when the preorder bonus for a game is something that has a substantial effect on the experience of the game itself, that usually leads me to not buy the game AT ALL simply out of spite, not order it in advance.