Life is Strange fans criticise $30 upgrade to play new game’s early chapters two weeks early
Life is Strange fans criticise $30 upgrade to play new game’s early chapters two weeks early
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>”To avoid getting caught up in spoilers I will be pre-ordering the Ultimate Edition,” another fan wrote. “A very bad decision by Square Enix.”
So it’s working exactly as planned then? Lmfao.
You can’t buy it then voice displeasure. Buying it is actively telling the company, “yes, I want more of this.”
Fans criticize, but also fans buy.
people play this turd?
We have already lost this war folks.
We accepted horse armor and that was the beginning of the end.
Now 70 bucks gets you the po folks version and you need to pony up 50 bucks more for the rest of it.
Now the po folks version comes out a few days late as well wtf, and you guys still buy!!
Cant blame the company for going after the easy money
Quality of the Game aside, what purpose does this serve? Someone planning or interested in this could tell me? Like if you win some kind of prize if you beat It before the Game **official release** or something like that then I would understand but otherwise i see ABSOLUTE ZERO benefits to this (unless there’s something i’m not seeing)
Honestly, I find paying to play early a lot less egregious than locking content behind a paywall in a single player game.
If someone wants to pay more to play it a few days/week sooner it doesn’t impact me at all.
I guaren-fucking-tee you Elder Scrolls 6 will cost double (or more) to play it a month (or more) early. We’re still at the beginning of the slippery slope and it goes all the way down. Everyone who pre-ordered Starfield or Diablo 4 is complicit.
I mean, just don’t buy it then. Thats clearly not worth the money…so don’t do it
Imagine how many people would pay this price if it was GTA VI
I feel like I’m in the minority here but as far as games squeezing money from players – this is by far my favourite. If this stops us getting season passes, micro transactions etc then I’m all for it. We constantly here about studio closures and lay offs but we seem so opposed to developers trying to secure more income for themselves. This doesn’t really harm anyone in my opinion.
Don’t. Fucking. Buy it. How hard is that? Just don’t. If you don’t like the thing they’re doing, don’t fucking pay for it.
Is this a stand alone game? I never played the second one. Meant to it just fell thru the cracks.
the first release of a game, by definition, cannot be “early”. they set their own release date. anything after that is a “late release”, but they’ve figured out how to rewire our brains with fomo so they can trick consumers into paying extra to play the game on time.
Obviously this is scummy and greedy. Are we at the point people can’t just wait two weeks? Like just pretend the original release date is two weeks later?
“Life is Strange fans wake up from coma, suddenly realize premium editions exist and have done for at least a decade.”
This is paying to play it on time. Everyone else gets to play it late.
Didn’t Starfield do the same thing, but just a few days earlier?
How dare Sqenix force me to pay them an extra $30!
…what’s that? They’re aren’t? I have a choice and agency over what I spend my own money on? HOW DARE THEY DO THIS
This is why I don’t like pre-orders with “early access” as a bonus. It’s just a way to get people to pay more to get the game on it’s actual release date. If you don’t pay up, you get penalised.
It’s even worse for story driven games.
But the publishers know people will pay. Even if they complain, they will pay.
Who are these hardcore fans of every game coming out that are loaded with too much money?
Don’t cave to the FOMO, friends. Let your wallets do the talking. If it stinks, don’t pay for it. Simple