Pre-Order Hell.

I don’t know about you folks, but I am sick to death of competitive DLC for games. What I mean by that is every store that sells games has different DLC for pre-ordering a single game. For an example Batman: Arkham City, has so much shit for pre-order. Best Buy has the “exclusive Tim Drake Robin skin” while the GameStop/EB Games has the “Joker’s Carnival of Horrors challenge map” Amazon it’s self has its own pre-order and so does Wal-mart.

To be honest with you I wanted to pre-order this game, but I had a lot on my plate to begin with so I couldn’t get it done. However looking at all this pre-order shit even if I wanted that Robin skin from Best Buy I wouldn’t get it, I never pre-order anything from anyplace that’s not GameStop.  It’s a matter of convenience, for me and I don’t buy shit online for the most part.

I understand the need to compete for sales, video games are a huge industry that makes a ton of money and everyone wants a part of it. I just don’t like being stuck in the middle, most of all I don’t like being stuck in the middle of a pre-order war that generally ends in Xbox live selling that same shit later.  I remember the big pre-order whoa, over “War for Cybertron” these entire different player skins, from all these different places then they released every one of the skins as a DLC pack.

The release of all the skins pissed so many people off, I remember hearing a story about how some dude drove miles out of his way just to get the Jazz skin from Best Buy only to find out a couple of months later he could have got it with the DLC pack. Also you have the people who order more than one game from different locations just to get all that DLC and I think this is what the parent company of said game company want.

If they can get you to buy two of the same thing just for that little bit of DLC, they got you by the nuts. But then again this isn’t exactly a perfect plan because you can very easily turn around and sell that shit to Game Stop unopened and get a decent trade in and Power up points. Regardless of any thing I personally feel that if they want to offer exclusive DLC I think they should keep it to different copies of the game, like a special Edition or a limited edition. That would give me more of a chance to get what it is I want.

When I do buy Arkham City I will be getting the collector’s edition, because I am a huge fan of “Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns” and as I understand it the collector’s edition of the game comes with that Batman skin and so far that is the only way to get it. I understand that some people think that a little healthy competition is good, and they don’t mind being jerked around by these corporations. Personally I’m about sick of it; I don’t need a trick to make me buy a game if I want it I will get it. Pre-order shit is cool but it’s never enough to make me buy something.