Overreactman wrote:It is not necessarily something that merrits attack on someone because they are excited about a game. I refuse to pre-order games these days, and the recent track record has Ubisoft being the worst company as they lie about graphics and features and then release broken games.
The only difference between pre-ordering a game and buying it on launch day is that you don't get the pre-order bonus. That's literally the only difference.
Overreactman wrote:
Is unlocking the FPS really a sales ploy in hopes that more people will buy this game for multiple systems? I doubt that. It does show that they understood what fans wanted and were willing to give it to them. I am sure there is a good bit of complex things that are needed in the coding that allows for such a change.
It shows how gullible you are if nothing else...
First of all, it's harder to add a framerate cap than to unlock it (or leave it unlocked, rather). And neither of them really take several freaking months to do.
Second, let's pretend for a second that they are justified in delaying the game. Even if they are, I'm willing to bet that if the console versions needed delaying while the PC version were ready for release, they wouldn't hesitate to delay the PC version too until the console version is ready.
Delaying the PC port guarantees nothing from a technical standpoint, it wouldn't be the first nor the last horrible PC port to get delayed. It does however benefit EA a lot. Not only does it increase sales (as you've kindly demonstrated, you're not the only one vouching to buy the game twice) but it also helps build hype. If anything, we should be more skeptical about the port now. More hype means more impatient fans, more impatient fans means more pre-orders, more pre-orders means the publisher has to worry less about sales. And it's been proven many times before that if a publisher doesn't have to worry too much about the sales, they are more likely to try and pull a fast one on us by releasing a low-budget port.
Just look at GTA IV. It's considered by many the worst port ever, did that cripple it's sales? In the long run, maybe, but Rockstar still made a killing at launch because many people had already bought the game by the time the world found out how bad the port is.
Overreactman wrote:
This is not day one DLC, it is not a massive bonus for pre-ordering the game, and it is not a season pass. This is a company making a change and a consumer that wants the game badly enough to be willing to buy it on multiple systems.
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It will have day-one DLC, rest assured. Same for season passes. As for pre-order bonus, that ship has sailed.