Pre-orders (Official Thread)

I would like to being a Mass Effect fan but I consider pre-ordering games as a bad habit, so no.

Me. CE or Digital Deluxe, one of the two. I am a completionist, and I have to have everything that is in the game, which includes special armor/weapons/whatever they include in those packs. And it's Mass Effect, I would be buying it even if they sold shit with N7 on it.

It's funny that people who are big fans are excited about it. That's precisely why I'm not excited about this. It isn't because I hate Mass Effect. It's because I liked it. And it ended. And in Hudson's own words, he never intended a sequel. Now it's a Bioware team with hardly any of the original members. So I'm cautious. I don't understand what they're even trying to do with this yet.

I'll certainly be picking the game up at launch, but whether I'll pre-order or not largely depends on the content of the CE(s)--I just don't see much point in pre-ordering the regular edition of any game, since it's not like they'll be in limited supply, and unless I'm buying a CE or find a really good deal, I always go digital at this point anyway. If they do a decent mid-range CE - in line with what we've seen from Mass Effect in the past - for a reasonable amount of money, I'll definitely pre-order that - gotta keep the set going - and I'd certainly be willing to consider a high-end CE if it had the content to justify the price.



I like physical items - a model of the Tempest would be just fantastic, or perhaps a more 'Mass Effect-y' take on Halsey's journal from the Halo: Reach CE, which remains my all-time favourite collector's edition - much, much more than in-game exclusive content - weapons, armour, that sort of thing - which almost always feels out-of-place in the progression curve, and like it would've worked much better if they'd just made it part of the standard game, and designed around its presence.

The Fallout: New Vegas pre-order stuff is a great example of this. Cool gear and weapons, but finding it all in your inventory at the start of the game completely messes up the - otherwise fantastic, especially for such a big open world game - early-game progression curve. I'd have much rather they distributed the items throughout the world in the same way as all the other loot, and the easiest way to do that fairly would've been to just make it all part of the base game. Otherwise, you'd get people - perhaps quite rightly - complaining that the game gated access to pre-order content that they were promised when they made their purchase.

I will. Preferabbly the collectors edition but it depends on what the devs will show us now these next six months.

Preordering aside, who are we kidding here? You may be cautious or disappointed by BioWare's decisions and marketing, but 90+% of the people here will play ME:A at some point.

I'm pretty on the fence on most game these days so I almost never pre order unless its worth it. In this case depends on the gameplay whenever Bioware decides to show off something concrete rather than more Dev Diaries here and there

In case there'll be "preorder CE, play 3 days earlier", I will, no matter what.

Sure.
Probably digital.
Don't need any 'toys'...

The reason I'm excited about this isn't necessarily because it's Mass Effect, but rather that it's going to be a space opera in which we get to traverse a galaxy (or cluster) with a new batch of colorful characters, so really, this could have been an entirely new scifi IP and I'd be happy about it. There's not a whole lot of this sort of thing, and most developers don't seem to be interested in trying, so regardless of any reservations on how BioWare is going to establish its new story, that it's another space shooter that's character-focused matters a great deal more to me. Despite loving the original trilogy, it was also a hot mess that suffered greatly from poor decisions and slapdash planning throughout, so whether or not having new faces on the team is a bad thing is yet to be determined. 

On Origin buying game at release is the same as preordering two years in advance, you just won't get preorder bonuses. So if any of preorder bonuses will interest me in the slightest, the sensible thing to do is preorder immediately. By buying physical copy or digital on release, you actually pay more in advance than me preordering. Just FYI.

I see but I'm also making a point here. In my opinion pre-ordering is bad so I don't do that. Once the game is released then I purchase it.