Pre-orders (Official Thread)

Because that will let developers know you trust them no matter what crap they have done in the past. I'm not specifically talking about Bioware atm, but generally. Which means they can do whatever they want and get away with it, because they know people only complain, but can't walk the talk. That's why companies have no problems resorting to shady business decisions like day one dlcs, microtransactions in single player game (*cough* Deus Ex *cough*), selling cut content that should be part of the package for extra money (*cough* Total war series *cough*) etc etc... Many companies were doing so fine not that long ago without these stupid greedy decisions, otherwise they wouldn't come so far and even make a big name of themselves, but all of sudden they can't make money without being greedy assholes?
If you really like game, you can always buy it after release. If enough people would do that, companies would see they can't sell so many special/limited editions anymore, they can't get money in advance anymore, they are losing trust of their customers, their customers are getting more cautious with their purchases which could mean they could eventually even stop buying from them etc. Then maybe these companies would think things through and decide to make quality products again that are worth your money and not try to milk every penny out of their customer while releasing half broken and half finished games.
Again, this is not about Bioware specifically or about what happened to ME3 (because I know people will accuse me of that). We had plenty of terrible and disappointing releases lately. It's not even just gaming industry. Every company in any branch have to respect their customers and provide quality products if they want to  be competitive.
But of course people make that more and more easy for them to play dirty, so there you go. There are tons of games out there, but no, you gotta get this certain game at exactly that date and hour. You waited years for the release, but you can't possibly wait another day or few hours.
Also, I had a giggle at your quote "Why would you wait to buy this game? What I mean by this is you either like something or you dont." You know, people also liked NMS, but they were very unpleasently surprised once they got the game in their hands. If you think you know the game by one trailer, then i don't know what to tell you. I thought every gamer figured by now it's impossible to judge the game by trailer alone. For me, trailers just help me determine if game looks promising or not. If I like trailer, I know I'll keep an eye on that game, not that I will surely buy it.
I can understand if you preordered Dark Souls 3 for example, since streamers could play big chunk of the game and show it to whole world like it is, two weeks before release. Or Star Citizen, on which you have insane amount of all kind of videos talking about the game, showing gameplay and you had a chance to even try it for free at some point.
Anyway, you'll do what you'll do, I'm just giving my opinion and wondering how people can get fucked the same way multiple times.

Whilst MEMP has had its quiet patches, it soldiered on throughout the 5 year period and is even getting more active again.
DAIMP was active enough through the supported event period (about a year), but not so much now...

Unless the mode is a car crash it will easily sustain 20 active weeks.

I suspect the 'super-duper' version is for people who:

• Are sure they will enjoy it for 20 weeks, or
• have enough money that they don't care

I suspect the 'super-duper' version is for people who:

• Are sure they will enjoy it for 20 weeks, or
• have enough money that they don't care

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Also, the price gap might be more lenient for the majority of the playerbase presumably living in the first world. I live in a third world country and the prices, when converting to US dollars, are $59, $74 and $100 for Standard, Deluxe and Super Deluxe respectively. I am torn between the Deluxe and the Super Deluxe, but honestly either choice for me will be a small investment and I can't afford to spend that much literally in the dark.

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Now if these packs are Guaranteed Ultra-Rare packs, then they make a little more sense at least for casual players, as they can boost one's progression indeed. Yet they don't seem to be different from Commendation Packs which in ME3MP we used to get after a Weekend Challenge completion for free.
For hardcore players, even if these packs award a guaranteed Ultra-Rare a week, they won't make a lot of difference. Hardcore players will unlock everything there is to be unlocked just by playing the game. I personally maxed my ME3MP inventory in 24 weeks, playing 4-6 hours a day. 20 weeks of 'who knows what' Packs won't affect the progression of a hardcore player.


At the end of the day, I just think Bioware/EA decided to come up with a U$100 edition of ME:A without having anything meaningful to include there.