GamingUnion: "Remember when pre-ordering something used to be fun? You'd be guaranteed a little poster, an art book, perhaps the soundtrack for the game if you were particularly lucky. It was a fairly simple trade-off for everyone involved, the developer/publisher got what was generally a guaranteed sale and the average gamer would walk away with some sweet bonus loot for financially declaring their love for the game in advance. Not to say that there wasn't a potential for error somewhere in there. There was always the chance that a store may accidentally be shipping too few copies of a pre-order bonus, or there was too much demand leading to a swap for a different bonus. EA's just taken things to the next progressive level: canceling the pre-order bonus altogether after getting massive interest in their game as a result of the initial incentive."
Battlefield 3's former Lead Designer has revealed that there were two cut missions from the main campaign
Get rid of campaigns, move the game to mobile, and try to compete with warzone. They would save time and money.
One of the best things about the Mas Effect series is the companions you meet along the way. So here is a tier list of all the companions from Mass Effect!
To think that Bioware at some point was capable of doing games like this, you see those characters and remember them like good old friends, and now check ME Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard etc and wonder what the hell happened.
some in andromeda are decent, I agree with peebee and Vetra being good companions. Except Liam he's trash tier
it's like bitch but your shirt back on, your not blue or spikey get away from me
Based on one narratively fitting ending in Mass Effect 3, Prothean squadmate Javik is highly unlikely to return in the next Mass Effect game.
He was one of my least favorite characters. I wish they would have done the Proths different.
Oh EA, you silly goose...
The whole Battlefield 1943 thing was stupid, but they keep doing it.
I'm confused as to why there isn't hate towards the idea of pre-order bonuses, and not just from EA.
Recently with the whole 'From Ashes' DLC 'scandal' (getting CE so doesn't bother me) gamers showed that they had had enough of being abused by companies who allegedly take content out of the game and sell it for extra.
Case in point. I pre-ordered Gears 3 and got a Baird skin with it. However Xbox Live messed up while trying to get my code and I had to turn off my console. When I turned it back on I had lost the download and when I tried to enter the code back in the Marketplace told me that that code had already been used. Oh well I thought, tis only a skin so never mind.
About a month later I was playing a game with bots offline. Low and behold the skin of the character I pre-ordered was there fighting by my side. Low and fudging behold the skin was already on the disc and had obviously been sectioned off in order to no doubt tempted some unsuspecting fools into pre-ordering the game early.
Pre-order bonuses from everyone need to stop being content (however little) stripped from the game and 'added' as an extra .
I may still be a little bitter :(
I miss the days when you could buy a game and that was it , everyone got the same game and none of this pre-order / random crap.
- Limited Edition
- Extreme Limited Edition
- Extreme Ultra Edition
- Super Extreme Ultra Edition
When will this madness stop :(
... it was?