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

Que rant about pre-orders, focusing on this absolutely ridiculous concept of ‘augmenting’ your own. To bring you up to speed, I’ll link the video of Square Enix’s pitch …along with a video response from one of my favorite gaming commentators TotalBiscuit, which I’ll highlight presently:
 * The simple fact of pre-ordering a game is quite dubious these days, as you the consumer are giving a developer your money for a product that hasn’t been reviewed or tested in any significant manner, and thus could be completely broken and useless. Just in the past couple years, examples of this from other developers have reached an all time high, along with the increasing pressure surrounding pre-orders.
 * Tiered rewards, based on global pre-orders, meaning it isn’t enough that you pre-order it yourself and register on site, but enough people have to do the same across the globe in order to achieve at least some of the rewards. This gives you an unfortunate motivation to become a free PR machine for the developer …concerning a game that you pointedly haven’t played and don’t have any experience with.
 * Tiers 1, 2, and 4 have multiple choices, of which you can only choose one. This means that even if you pre-order the game and even if the global goal is reached, you literally cannot acquire all the content that has been developed and made available for this game.
 * Tier 3 unlocks a mission purposely cut from the original game.
 * Tier 5 allows you to play four days earlier, which is fairly pointless for a single-player game, except potentially getting the game spoiled if you don’t pre-order and live under a rock.

…so, I’m a long time supporter and player of the Deus Ex franchise, and I honestly let myself get completely immersed in the hype of Human Revolution; I followed their Facebook feeds, had passionate discussions here and elsewhere on various game-related subjects ...I even got both day-one DLC packs (that were originally retailer exclusive), giving me a rather insane advantage in the early game (that I found myself not needing, or even wanting) …none of which was exclusive or unique, aside from a small mission of significant plot that was purposely cut out of the original game for the single purpose of creating DLC. They’re essentially doing this again for Mankind Divided …and somehow managing to make it even worse. It’s all just incredibly anti-consumer; they aren’t rewarding customers for pre-ordering, they’re punishing those that don’t - a punishment merely for being a smart consumer! I had my mind set on a Collector’s Edition, but this is just making me want to avoid going anywhere near this franchise ever again…

P.S. Welcome back, Dorgles...