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OMG, Squeenix hits a new low on hating its customers

Among my circle of friends, it's taken as established fact that Squeenix hates its players. They haven't released a game since the departure of Hiromichi Tanaka that didn't contain something that showed this.

Certainly the last Deus Ex title amply demonstrated the hatred, with the stupid "what, you were playing a stealth game? Naaah, it's an action game!" boss fights and, even worse, the grotesquely non-closing final voiceover in lieu of an actual ending cinematic and the parody of having multiple endings (you push one of four buttons, all next to each other on a console, and what difference it makes to the stupid final voiceover is too insignificant to spot).

But the announcement this week about the pre-order "bonuses" for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided are a new low. The initial structure is the already-annoying "you only get a pre-order bonus if enough people pre-order" system, which is a travesty to start with. But even if you do play along with that crap, you will only get one choice from each of the early tiers of "if enough people". If you want to get all three bits, you have to shell out more than 250% of the normal edition price for the "collector's edition".

And the top tier, get this: They will release the game 4 days earlier. Think about that. Does that mean that they'll magically finish it faster? No, it means they are going to hold it back for four days unless enough people cough up the bucks for the pig in the poke.

To me, this strongly suggests that the game sucks in some horrid way that will become obvious as soon as people start playing it, and they know it.

This is definitely one game not to pre-order!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJkzcQDqbpE

https://www.deusex.com/augmentyourpreorder

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