Thoughts on Preordering/PreOrder Bounuses

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Thoughts on Preordering/PreOrder Bounuses

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A new game comes out, you want it as youve been waiting for the game for awhile. You order the game at ShopTo because its 24.99 instead of the £34.99 price tag that game has stuck on it. However, it gets announced that GAME will be getting exclusive preorder bonuses like a whole new part to the campaign.

From recent memory, people preorder alien colonial marines and well...look how that turned out :S

This brings me to my question, does this piss you off? Do you think preorders are a good or bad thing? Disscuss (or else >:3 )
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If the preorders are crap, what's the point. Honestly, I don't mind preorder bonuses....but if the game is complete crap..then yeah.
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I only get certain Pre-Orders, like the KH 1.5 HD ReMix that comes with a limited edtion artbook.
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The pre-order bonuses has to be worth the price. If they tend to be lackluster and doesn't continue the experience of that particular game, it's money basically wasted.

If I wanted to pre-order a game I'd first make decisions on whether the game itself is good from others or through demos and the like, just enough to consider me pre-ordering it.
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Preorder bonuses are fine, in theory, sadly in practice they're nearly always tied down to retailer. Mostly GAME who are overpriced or Zavvi who have the worst delivery.

Still, sometimes it allows for unintentionally funny shit like when Zen take forever to get Persona 4 Arena over here and then somehow think people will appreciate them giving GAME an exclusive preorder bonus.
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I personally cant stand retailer exclusive editions. I'm a huge fan of deadpool, so im forced to buy the game from GAME as its the only place that does the special edition :S
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Reknoc wrote:Preorder bonuses are fine, in theory, sadly in practice they're nearly always tied down to retailer. Mostly GAME who are overpriced or Zavvi who have the worst delivery.
Spot on.

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GameStop always have these exclusives that no other retailer seems to have. Sure there's places like Target & Best Buy that have pre-order bonuses, but GameStop will up them with theirs.
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Personally I like pre-order bonuses. Especially with Japanese CDs, since the price is usually the same as the normal.
With games I don't tend to do it very often. I don't even see many bonuses around here in fact to get. Not even in GAME.
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It's hard to avoid them nowadays. S-E, Tecmo-Koei and NamcoBandai (jesus are all japanese publishers partnered with each other now? lol) especially seem to give all of their games pre-order bonuses. Even Steam and PSN have pre-order bonuses, either in a discounted price or a game for free (usually any sort of predecessor). Nintendo also seem to be a fan of Grainger since I know a couple of their 3DS games have had pre-order bonuses.
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