Pre-Order Babies

Hello again kiddies to another one of my polarizing blogs subject for today's blog is one about pre-orders and the people who take issues with them.

Now A game that has been on my radar for a while now has been Alien Isolation Sega's millionth attempt to revive this dead franchise and tensions are high as the stench of Colonial Marines still linger in the air. Recently they have shown off a trailer for the pre-order incentives to Alien Isolation which are the Crew Expendables and Lone Survivor DLC pack which are recreations of Ridley Scott's classic film Alien.

This as you may have imagined sparked some outrage among the community with several gamers including Jim Sterling a man I highly respect to come out and tell SEGA off for this. Sadly for Mr. Sterling and those gamers I don't agree with their views on this and pre-order incentives as a whole.

Just to clarify I don't think all pre-order incentives are good if you showed me one where a crucial part of the game is taken away and used to make you pre-order than I'm with you that is BS. Or when you got to pre-order at a certain store to get the extra content but overall I don't see pre-order bonuses as a problem or even as a big deal.

Now here me out if there is someone that should be furious over these it's me because I don't have a gamestop or Best Buy or any of those stores where I walk in and hand over $5 to make sure I get the game. If I want a game and the bonuses I got to pay in full and because these reviews come out so late cancelling my orders are not possible.

So for all right I should hate pre-orders but I don't because my situation isn't everyone situation and I also don't see the idea of giving people a bonus or incentive to put money down on a game ahead of time as bad. First off all it's because it's free, you don't have to pay anything extra to get this stuff all you have to do is just put an easily refundable down payment on a game wait until it comes out pay the game off and get the bonus content.

Secondly because usually these bonuses are just so minor and insignificant that they're not worth getting mad over, now considering the AI bonus is actually bonus story material some people have gone out to claim they are withholding content from you and selling a chopped up game.

This however is pure garbage and I'll tell you why. The reason why a lot of people are interested and want this game is not to play as Sigourney Weaver believe it or not but to play a new story in the Alien lore as a newish character in a whole new scenario and that is what you are getting when you purchase it.

You could argue well maybe that part is the opening to the game well I'll say I'm highly doubtful of that because they described it that the DLC starts off with the Alien already matured and having killed the engineer. So it can't be the opener as you don't get any context to how they got it, where it came from or anything.

This piece of content was clearly made as a bonus material for the fans of the franchise, a love letter if you will to the people who grew up watching Alien and as a treat for pre-ordering the game.

I'm sure some of you will feel differently and that I'm being naive and making excuses for a thieving company who are trying to nickle & dime us and to that I say THIS IS NOT EA YOU &*@#$. To simply put it this is just what it is bonus content it's not a core piece of narrative or lore and I know it's the movie this game is trying to follow up on but to that I say exactly what I just said.

It's a recreation of the movie and the game already expects you going in to know the movie existed and that you saw it so that's a mute point and not a valid con against my point. Anyway pre-order bonuses are not bad as long as they are legitimately not taking our crucial parts of the game like EA did with the Protian DLC that was exclusive to the collector's edition.

I will agree however store exclusive pre-orders can suck it, anyway that's the word of The ZombieGamer, hope I opened some eyes or at least opened you to an alt way of thinking. Till next time guys.