Retail-Specific Pre-Order Bonuses
For some reason, this trend has slowly evolved into more of a plague over the past few years. People are always going to want physical copies of their games, there’s no doubt about that. In an act that comes from either petty revenge or one drunk night at the office, publishers decide to split up their various DLC bits like weapons and armor and give one pack each to a different retailer. So if you want that super ultra powerful gun or those armor sets and they’re not at the same retailer, you’re going to have to play Russian Roulette.
Of course, there’s always the possibility that it’ll be bundled together available to buy on a digital marketplace later. But, and hear me out on this, wouldn’t it just be easier to have everything be the same no matter where you get the game from? If the retailers are demanding that this happen, just let them solve this argument the same way game developers do: bare knuckle, anything goes cage matches at 3 AM.
