User blog comment:Dorgles/Release Date announced for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided/@comment-3418306-20150901090508/@comment-26955746-20150901123800

I watched TB's video aswell, and it was decent in a lot of ways. I'm still annoyed about the pre-order scheme, but I think TotalBiscuit's assertion that you're getting an incomplete experience by not pre-ordering is exaggerated a bit. The first tier is similar to the one you got for HR it seems, and as you said, is not even beneficial to you since it makes the game less challenging. So I'd consider that tier to be useless anyway. The only other tier related to game content is the exclusive mission which for one, probably won't be any good and, two, may have been specifically created/not scrapped altogether just to act as a preorder incentive. If no pre-order bonuses existed we may have never seen this mission in the game anyway. The 2nd and 4th tiers seem to be digital versions of things they plan to release anyway, except maybe the novella which will probably be released for free in a few years like Fallen Angel was if you can wait that long... I actually thought that the 4 days early release applied to everyone, not just those who preordered, but I might have misinterpreted. I'd like this to be clarified by someone from Square or Eidos. All that being said, I still hate the concept of pre-ordering and hope not many people fall for this scheme.

I don't really want to punish Eidos for something that was very likely Square Enix's decision. I doubt many of the devs supported a scheme like this.. I'm still planning on getting the game even though it has also put a damper on my excitement about it.