Bizarre Pre-Order Incentive
Pre-order incentives have always been strange in concept, but overall pretty harmless. Drop a few bucks on a game, guarantee yourself a copy, and get some cool little incentive from time to time. Over time however, this “incentive” has turned into something more akin to an advantage.
For those who pre-order Evolve, players will be rewarded with a code that unlocks all unlockables in the game, thus bypassing the ability to earn the new characters, monsters, and upgrades altogether.
This is utterly ridiculous. What makes the pre-order advantage even more frustrating is that the only way of earning said unlockables is through grinding each and every character class. Normally, unlocking things the slow and steady way isn’t an issue, but in Evolve, the progress of completing the various challenges just isn’t fun. It feels as though the grind to earn the unlockables through the legit method is purposefully frustrating and tedious in the hopes of pushing players to pre-order the game. In essence, players are being bullied into pre-ordering the game with monotony and tedium.
Oh, players who pre-order will also receive an additional monster, pushing the total amount of playable monsters in the game to four.
