Pre-orders (Official Thread)

I finally pre-ordered. I pre=ordered the deluxe edition on the PS store. I have no need for a remote control car, so no collector's edition for me, plus hubby wants to play multiplayer with me. So digital for the win.

I do want the abolish microtransactions, but it's not because I don't want to pay the money.  I'd gladly pay $100 for the base game and a multiplayer so long as players couldn't buy advantages through microtransactions.

I always bring up the baseball comparison.  I wouldn't want to play baseball if every hit a fellow teammate got was an automatic home run, simply because he paid a small fee for the privilege.  Games should reward skills, not pocketbooks. 

I'm reasonably well off, middle class, but to this day I have never made a single microtransaction that impacts the balance of the game; only cosmetic or DLC.  If I recall correctly, I got bonus in-game cash for buying GTA V on PC, and I just threw it away.

Ah well, I've come to accept it.  There's just a wide gap between acceptance and welcome.  And I'll never stop pushing for the practice to be abolished.

Preordering ASAP. I just like being able to walk straight to GS after work to pick it up without any hassle, get home and download the soundtrack and listen to it while the inevitable D1 patch is downloading and installing...

If the were specifically trying to emulate Bethesda's approach to Fallout 4, they didn't do a very good job.

The model used in both ME3 and DA:I does not facilitate pay-to-win behavior. Paying for extra dice rolls is very different from paying for items directly. Both are reprehensible, but for different reasons.

And I did, and with the R/C version.

Preordered on Origin when it was first available. Went with the deluxe pack as I always get BioWare game soundtracks and if the option is available to order it with the game, I'll do it that way. Didn't go the super deluxe route though as I don't play MP and don't really care about the booster packs.

Now that the game has an Official Release Date, pre-ordering makes sense. I will pre-order the game - and I will do that because I want to start playing Multiplayer from Day One.

That being said, I am not going to pre-order it anytime soon. I will wait until the last day or so, as I normally do when I pre-order games. Lots of things can happen between now and March 21st. I am not going to commit my money to buying it just yet.

You're too late, there already was a thread like this somewhere around here

The game title is correct. The title does not imply that we will be traveling the whole galaxy. The title implies that the game takes place in the Andromeda galaxy, which it does. Moreover, the Helius Cluster is a fictional location created by Bioware, while the Andromeda galaxy itself is a real place. Titling the game "Mass Effect: Andromeda" ticks two different name recognition boxes.

I don't particularly care that you canceled your pre-order, in fact it's probably a good thing. But mis-characterizing the game based on what you inferred from its title is not.

nope. That was not it. Like I said, it is because I see only trailers it says 'We have super duper cool photo realistic graphic and explosions'. This was said in 2014 in Inquisition, too. I don't want to pick flowers or collect stones.