The 4 day "Early" access

[TheDoctor123]

WARNING: OPINIONS BELOW

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I am so sick and tired of games releasing "early" for those who pay and extra 1/3 of the price and trying to prey on your FOMO.

RELEASE THE GAME WHEN IT"S READY AT THE SAME TIME FOR ALL PLAYERS FOR A REASONABLE PRICE!!!!

Super scummy and frustrating, for all those thinking of purchasing the pre-order, DO NOT purchase the gold or ultra editions. Let's make a statement against this malpractice.

(8/14/24) EDIT 1:
I am adding in this for 2 reasons.

1. I am seeing people mention that most people are not buying the gold+ editions for the 4 day early unlock and consider it a bonus. While I agree that this is true, this does not account for everybody. IMO, I believe that a different bonus should have been offered instead. If they wanted to stress test servers, they could have done so with a beta. I think to properly run a stress test, they need to have all players involved, not just the minority who are willing to spend high dollar on some higher edition.

2. I am seeing some people echoing the argument "It does not affect you". I think that this argument is fair, but it overlooks some of the main criticisms that I would like for people to consider when deciding to purchase. For those who want to avoid spoilers for the campaign from news articles, Reddit, or the main steam page (like myself) it becomes extremely difficult. Additionally, this is a title that features not only a single player experience, but a multiplayer one as well. People getting early access with have more time to find out META strategies for COOP and PVP before the massive wave of "4 day late peasant unlock" players come. Possibly (and most likely) harming the experience of others who are not joining in on the action right away.

Aside from these 2 main points, I just overall do not like the trend of game companies finding more and more ways to squeeze money from consumers. I do not like the trend of "paying for convince" that these new practices encourage. I believe that this is something that almost all AAA release games will be doing after the wild success of other titles doing this. It is something that is here to stay, but in my opinion it just leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

(8/30/24) Edit Final:

I did not think I would be editing this post again, however I think many people are reading this post and then misconstruing what I am trying to make a point with here, so I want to make 1 final edit here to put this to bed.

The price is not something I am frustrated with. I think my original wording was bad when I made this post initially (I would edit it, but I do not want to change the post so people can see it in it's entirety) and I am willing to admit that it was a poor choice of words and I should have been more constructive. I am willing and able to pay the 30+ dollars for the upgrade, but I still will not simply because the early access is part of the edition. Money was not something that ever mattered to me here, I was making a general statement about the games industry as a whole.

Finally discussing what I think matters here, which is early access as a general thing. Sure, 4 days isn't a big deal, but I think that the business practice as a whole is just a bad idea. IN MY OPINION, I do not like the precedent this sets, as it has been proven successful for worse. it leads me to ask questions for the future of games like: "what kinds of things will the games industry do next to abuse sketchy marketing strategies?".

All of this is strictly my opinion. I did not intend or want this post to blow up like it has, I simply wanted to state my opinion to a few people and have a cordial discussion about it, but this is not what this post has become. I only wanted to leave this post in the best way I could so that others can try and have valuable discussion here. I will not be editing this post again or contributing to further discussions here due to the toxicity this post has been festering. If you wish to get a hold of me and have a chill chat about it, feel free to reach out.

[Bray of Cats]

I don't see the point of getting that edition, it will be at it's buggiest. Not sure why we would need to pay to be QA for the devs.

[TheDoctor123]

Originally posted by Bray of Cats (Pron in Bio):

I don't see the point of getting that edition, it will be at it's buggiest. Not sure why we would need to pay to be QA for the devs.

In addition to this, you're not paying to get early access, as much as you are NOT paying, to get the game later than everyone else.

It isn't fair and it's the dumbest ♥♥♥♥ that has come to video games in a LONG time.

[Daminionz]

That's the sad reality, they could make ultimate edition cost 500$ and those same people who paid 100$ would still pay the 500$
Why? Because whales. Kids that just have rich parents, have never had to lift their small finger in their life, just splashing mommy's and daddy's cash - then the greedy game corpos just take advantage of that. Guarantee you, this is only going to get worse not better.
But yea, the moment I see ''get X days early access'' for ANY game I just instantly skip it, even if it's mega goty I just don't care. Having this in your game you could even argue is a good thing, it shows everyone instantly all you care about is money and nothing more and dgaf about the game,community or feedback.
You're getting robbed blind by paying for this and people just don't care.

[Raven]

At this time, a game is released for wealthy people. The rest of the beggars receive the game after the release in а three days

[Blackguard]

What, don't you want to pay a 100 extra v-bucks to play as the black samurai from Assassins Creed Shadows like 3 days before the game launches for all those normies that didn't pay that extra cash?

[wizard master結城晶子リ]

Originally posted by Daminionz:

That's the sad reality, they could make ultimate edition cost 500$ and those same people who paid 100$ would still pay the 500$
Why? Because whales. Kids that just have rich parents, have never had to lift their small finger in their life, just splashing mommy's and daddy's cash - then the greedy game corpos just take advantage of that. Guarantee you, this is only going to get worse not better.
But yea, the moment I see ''get X days early access'' for ANY game I just instantly skip it, even if it's mega goty I just don't care. Having this in your game you could even argue is a good thing, it shows everyone instantly all you care about is money and nothing more and dgaf about the game,community or feedback.
You're getting robbed blind by paying for this and people just don't care.

dude its just a bonus your paying for the extra dlcs season pass etc also just cause other ppl have the money to by what ever edition they want doesnt means there rich kids dude it means they have higher paying jobs then you to spend on what they want if ur cant spend itlike that just get a better job but dont get mad just cause other ppl have it better then you all it is is a bonus not like its disadvantage for you in game

[TheDoctor123]

Originally posted by wizard master結城晶子リ:

Originally posted by Daminionz:

That's the sad reality, they could make ultimate edition cost 500$ and those same people who paid 100$ would still pay the 500$
Why? Because whales. Kids that just have rich parents, have never had to lift their small finger in their life, just splashing mommy's and daddy's cash - then the greedy game corpos just take advantage of that. Guarantee you, this is only going to get worse not better.
But yea, the moment I see ''get X days early access'' for ANY game I just instantly skip it, even if it's mega goty I just don't care. Having this in your game you could even argue is a good thing, it shows everyone instantly all you care about is money and nothing more and dgaf about the game,community or feedback.
You're getting robbed blind by paying for this and people just don't care.

dude its just a bonus your paying for the extra dlcs season pass etc also just cause other ppl have the money to by what ever edition they want doesnt means there rich kids dude it means they have higher paying jobs then you to spend on what they want if ur cant spend itlike that just get a better job but dont get mad just cause other ppl have it better then you all it is is a bonus not like its disadvantage for you in game

The fact that it is even an option to upgrade to get the game on time is completely absurd. Money grubbing corpos are just doing this tactic because it makes them SO MUCH more money. It's wrong, it's disgusting and it IS a disadvantage. Getting into the game late because we pay a fair price means that everyone else figures out the game entirely before the people who payed full price get a chance to learn the game.

[BoydofZINJ]

I was about to create a post to rant on this advance purchase..... ughhhhhhhhh. Companies are so quick to do anything for a buck

[Tyvolus]

Originally posted by BoydofZINJ:

I was about to create a post to rant on this advance purchase..... ughhhhhhhhh. Companies are so quick to do anything for a buck

thats how they can bring you games to enjoy.

[Lebowski]

It's not early access, they are charging people more to play game in actual release date.
Very scummy

[Tyvolus]

Originally posted by Lebowski:

It's not early access, they are charging people more to play game in actual release date.
Very scummy

you dont have to do it. for those that want to, they can. games cost $$$ to make, and again this is optional.

[Hag main]

Originally posted by TheDoctor123:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I am so sick and tired of games releasing "early" for those who pay and extra 1/3 of the price and trying to prey on your FOMO.

RELEASE THE GAME WHEN IT"S READY AT THE SAME TIME FOR ALL PLAYERS FOR A REASONABLE PRICE!!!!

Super scummy and frustrating, for all those thinking of purchasing the pre-order, DO NOT purchase the gold or ultra editions. Let's make a statement against this malpractice

I think its perfectly valid that a private business is able to sell their game however they want too. No one can cry anyones being a whale by buying it as there isnt like "oh you can get a 3000% exp and combat boost by preording it with ultra edition!" Some of us have jobs and instead of waiting for a monday to play we can play thursday and friday and then be able to enjoy it on the weekend.

[wizard master結城晶子リ]

Originally posted by TheDoctor123:

Originally posted by wizard master結城晶子リ:

dude its just a bonus your paying for the extra dlcs season pass etc also just cause other ppl have the money to by what ever edition they want doesnt means there rich kids dude it means they have higher paying jobs then you to spend on what they want if ur cant spend itlike that just get a better job but dont get mad just cause other ppl have it better then you all it is is a bonus not like its disadvantage for you in game

The fact that it is even an option to upgrade to get the game on time is completely absurd. Money grubbing corpos are just doing this tactic because it makes them SO MUCH more money. It's wrong, it's disgusting and it IS a disadvantage. Getting into the game late because we pay a fair price means that everyone else figures out the game entirely before the people who payed full price get a chance to learn the game.

so how does that hurt u if ppl are playing before u

[wizard master結城晶子リ]

Originally posted by TheDoctor123:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I am so sick and tired of games releasing "early" for those who pay and extra 1/3 of the price and trying to prey on your FOMO.

RELEASE THE GAME WHEN IT"S READY AT THE SAME TIME FOR ALL PLAYERS FOR A REASONABLE PRICE!!!!

Super scummy and frustrating, for all those thinking of purchasing the pre-order, DO NOT purchase the gold or ultra editions. Let's make a statement against this malpractice

so what makes umiss out on just by playing the game early what u missing out on if udont play it early

[RenTed]

I want the edition:
"Buy it a year later if you want most of the bug to be fixed. And, take this 25% discount too."