The other side of the argument is that pre-order practices strangle consumers. Therefore, it’s hard to believe he was added after the game was completed. But Javik, the recruit in From Ashes, is fully integrated into ME3, interacting with characters, having full-blown cutscenes & providing integral development in the plot. Given that these characters were created after the fact, that’s understandable. They don’t interact with the others recruits nor do you have the lengthy scenes with them on the Normandy that you do with all the others. The two downloadable recruits in ME2 (Kasumi & Zaeed) aren’t particularly well-integrated into the rest of the game outside of their specific missions. Also, if you’ve played through From Ashes, as well as the previous DLC companions from Mass Effect 2, you’ll notice a drastic difference in the way the content is integrated. It wasn’t like the Collector’s Edition wasn’t available until later, & BioWare decided to include the free code then. However, I find this more than suspect, given that both versions of the game went on sale for pre-order at the same time. ![]() ![]() In other words, with the Collector’s Edition, you were just getting a free code to download the DLC. BioWare & EA tried to argue that the reason the From Ashes content wasn’t included in the original game was because it hadn’t been finished in time to be included on the discs, & that it was going to be available as DLC for all consumers. If you bought the Standard Version, which was cheaper than the Collector’s Edition, if you wanted to experience the full game, you’d have to pay $10 on top of the price of your game. However, what got people up in arms was when it was revealed that the Collector’s Edition would include the “From Ashes” content, which was a major plot point in the game, giving you a new set of missions & an important crewmate to recruit, but the Standard Edition would not. As you’d expect, the Collector’s Edition cost more & included various in-game & material bonuses, such as a special game case, artwork book & robot dog (in-game). At launch, two versions of the game were available for pre-order: Standard & Collector’s Edition. One of the most recent cases I can think of was with Mass Effect 3. While in many cases pre-order bonuses are little more than cosmetic (new guns, costumes, soundtracks), which I feel are harmless because they don’t affect your experience, some games have cross the line, removing whole chunks of content. On the one hand, people argue that pre-orders force developers to mangle their end products, cutting out portions of the game that were originally intended to be part of the full version of the game. ![]() At the very least, I understand what’s got people so upset. I mean, it’s nice, but it doesn’t make my decision.īut when I actually started thinking about it, I realized that I wasn’t entirely opposed to the idea of doing away with the whole pre-order schtick. ![]() I don’t usually give much thought to any sort of bonus pre-order content. Usually I only pre-order games if I’m sure I’m going to buy them no matter what, & even then it’s usually just so I can have the game on release day. Apparently someone somewhere on Reddit took it upon themselves to declare this year “Pre-Order Free 2015.” I’d never really given much thought to pre-ordering, or how much hatred the practice seems to be garnering these days. Like most things on the internet, I wasn’t aware this was a thing until I stumbled across it.
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