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Old 05-05-18, 06:57   #8
Cochrane
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I’m not a fan of this either, but I think the effect on the player base is overstated. In the old days of physical media, I sometimes got games that I preordered a day or two earlier just by random chance. This isn’t that’s different really.

On the emotional side, I think it helps to see it from a different angle: This is not about screwing over those too poor to buy the expensive edition so. The one and only goal of all these special editions is to screw over rich people; to make them pay more for basically the same product, just because they can afford to. All these DLCs and unlockable thingies and earlier play and so on are really just there to fool rich people into thinking that their charitable unnecessary donation of 40€ (above normal price) to Square Enix was actually a smart idea.
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