Preorder bonuses: Yay or Nay?

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The Fury said:
Nay in general.

Pre-order bonuses should be timed. Tekken Tag 2 did it perfectly, preorder get these characters 3 months later, everyone gets those characters, plus a few more. For nothing.

ME3 did it wrong, preorder bonus was a special gun, I've never seen that special gun. Never will. DLC costs full price still and no GOTY edition. Screw them.

...this turned into a general DLC moan.

I think the general problem is that consumers wait until sales or get games used, which means a lot let profit for the company, especially seeing as digital distribution means that sales can be over 50% just a month or two after the game is released. By bundling in exclusive content, they encoiurage people to get it at full price, and not to wait.

That being said, I wish that they just included physical goods (like an exclusive figurine or something), but companies would rather just give you digital goodies since it's cheaper, so I guess that's not gonna happen very often.