Videogames are increasingly trying to get you to preorder or purchase expensive deluxe editions in exchange for “early access” to a game several days before its official launch date. This latest trend is a sure sign that, as publishers desperately try to keep squeezing blood from the same shriveled stone, they’re running out of aggressive monetization schemes.
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We can always count on the Videogame Industry to come up with a new predatory scheme
pay $20 extra for 4k resolution… you know it’s coming
It is a nice jacket
This might be a correction that you want to make. Microsoft doesn’t advertise that all games will have day 1 access. They advertise day 1 access to their 1st party games. From there they will advertise specific 3rd party games with day 1 access, Lies of P being one of them.
Literally the only genre it makes any sense at all to do an early release for different editions is MMO’s purely because staggering players entering the new zones results in a better experience for everybody than just dumping people in all at the same time and causing massive server issues.
Disgusting when you see it with something like Starfield where server stability is entirely irrelevant.
Totally agree. It goes a bit beyond “hey, there’s something I’ll let all people buy in 2 weeks, but I’ll let you buy today for more”. In this day and age, the product you’re getting is objectively worse 2 weeks before. There’s bugs. There’s multiplayer and download infrastructure that people need to properly configure. If you think about it, companies should be paying you to play their game early, since they’re going to use the data for adjustments. That’s what I love about (free) open betas. You get to play the game, devs get to see how it performs with lots of people playing it.
I rarely buy game for the early access. I like to know if its any good before I lay down my cash
The last minute absolutely MAKES this video. I laughed my ass off.
Peasant Edition: 3 days later access
Sounds a bit worse… but honest
The only advantage of preordering is if the offer comes with extra content. But paying in advance in order to play a bit earlier is in itself no advantage at all, it only deprives you of an early warning about shit games.
Do. Not. Preorder. Games. Ever.
It’s gross that playing Mortal Kombat 1 five days early was an option on switch for ONE HUNDRED TEN DOLLARS. The full price port is bad enough, dangling that early access to a near unplayable game is depressing.
This jacket is all kinds of awesome 🙂!
Trrr-Rippple-ay games
This is a weird trend but understandable as companies try to benefit from hype around their games, often created by those same companies. I do not have a problem with this practice in PvE games or games where there is no competitive multiplayer element. I’m guilty of paying this fee myself, Diablo 4 was my failure, but I was going to buy štandard version anyway so paying extra $20 was not material for me. Where I think people should be more reasonable are titles releasing on Gamepass. You are paying full price of the game and extra for early access rather than wait a few daya to play the game practically for free.
PS. Is it just me or the video insinuate that Gamepass/Microsoft is to be blamed for this situation?
Yeah uh
I’ll pass on playing things “early” based on how buggy they tend to be even day 1.
At this rate, companies will be advertising accessing beta for a cheaper price as a revolutionary new feature.
Company’s will eternally demand more money for less product, and so long as those with substantial disposable income and no financial literacy keep paying them it will only get worse.
Starfield is the kind of game you want to WAIT a year before playing.
Bethesda makes games with potential that are invariably filled with dumb decisions. Wait a year for mods to fix them, and buy them in a collector’s edition with all the dlc.
You say most people now agree with you on FFXIII but I have never forgotten how much of a vicious critical beating FFXIII when it was in Japan months before the rest of the world got it and article pieces on how JRPGs and the entire Japanese game industry was dead and that the future was Call of Duty and Fallout. Most people refer to that Zero Punctuation review to validate why they can shit on FFXIII without playing it themselves.
Nowadays, it’s the other way around as that game has received more appreciation in light of FFXV having an incomplete story and especially FFXVI tried way too hard to be like Game of Thrones but also tried to avoid being like FFXIII so hard, it came back the other way around and had some of FFXIII’s problems minus a memorable world and a cast of memorable characters that stood out.
I hope FFXIII can get a proper remaster or even a full-on remake but maybe just have one release date and no early access.
That jacket is FIERCE! 😍