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Professor Jeff: Batman Arkham City Robin Character Annoucement
When I woke up this morning and fired up the old newsfeeds, the last thing I expected was that within five minutes I would loathe all of mankind. First the good news:
Yes, that's Tim Drake as a playable character for the challenge rooms in Arkham City. Then I read the fine print from the folks at Best Buy:
While supplies last, pre-order the game for an exclusive downloadable Robin character. Robin is a fully playable character in the new and improved challenge mode in Batman: Arkham City. The Tim Drake Robin pack is available exclusively to fans who pre-order the game from Best Buy on Xbox 360, PC and PS3. Robin comes complete with his own unique gadgets and special moves, and will be playable in all challenge maps in the game, as well as two additional challenge maps that are included with the pack: Black Mask Hideout and Freight Train Escape. The pack will also contain a bonus Red Robin character skin.
So now I'm afraid that human civilization will need to be destroyed. Yes, hold your loved ones close and pray to whatever diety suits you, because it is now my duty to usher in a thousand years of darkness and pain.
But let's talk for a second about pre-order bonuses before I unleash Armageddon. Here we are in the far flung year of 2011. I'm still pissed that cars don't fly and I don't have a lightsaber, but that's a whole other rant. Here we are in an age of technological wonder where beautiful, sophisticated content can instantly be delivered to our screens 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and we are expected not only to leave the house, drive to the store, and buy the game, oh no! We are expected to put money down beforehand and then go BACK to pick the game up when it comes in! What other industry does this? Movies don't offer you 10 minutes of additional footage if you buy the new Harry Potter movie six months before it comes out! Brick and mortar stores love to whine and complain about how Steam and digital distribution is killing their business, well I've got news for you folks: this isn't the way to win back the hearts and minds of gamers.
I honestly don't think I'd be this upset if this was just a Best-Buy exclusive. I would go pay an extra $10 from my normal Gamefly purchase to get me some Tim Drake action. Wait a minute, that didn't come out right. But seriously, the mere concept of pre-ordering something has always been totally and completely ridiculous to me. This is a store, right? You guys do sell games, don't you? But maybe I'm overreacting. What do you guys think? I've been anti pre-order for so long now, that merely typing the words makes me feel dirty. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got unleash the Apocalypse. How? Well... let's just say there's a reason I don't shave very often.
Here's a new Terraria Trailer that may save humanity.
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Tags: Arkham City, Batman, Professor Jeff, Rocksteady, Terraria, The Loading Bar, Video Games
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Comment by The GodDamn Fatman on July 6, 2011 at 12:16pm -
I feel the same way. This is Batman arkham city so while I'm sure this will be good plenty bad games pull this bullshit too. You preorder the game and when it comes out and everyone is telling you it sucks your stuck with it. Having some little exclusive this is cool but keeping Red Robin from us because we didn't want to preorder is some ole bull shit. This especially sucks for poor people like me who have to wait till its been out so long half price so I can afford it.
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Comment by Spawn-Taneous on June 24, 2011 at 5:48pm -
Well, Prof. Jeff. I can't wait for Batman: AC to be here - just like you. The more I see of the things it's coming out with, the more excited I get! I don't think they will, but if they tell us we can get Nightwing for this game as well, I'll soil myself. But I digress!
The thing is, I like the pre-order concept - even though I do agree with some of what you said in this article. In these economic times, not a lot of people can afford to pay $59 dollars or $99 for a collector's edition of their favorite game title all at one time - and it's not the consumer's fault. Almost everything just jacked up (gas, food, rent ,etc) but your pay is still the same. And sorry, renting a game for a week doesn't cut it - especially those games with replay value (Batman Arkham Asylum, Uncharted 2, Mass Effect 2, I could go on).
I use pre-order at Gamestop - I put down some money every paycheque so that when the game comes out - I either have less to pay for it when it comes out, or I have it all paid for before the release date and just need to pick it up when it arrives. Because of pre-ordering, I've gotten Assassin Creed 2 as well as Batman: Arkham Asylum Collector's edition (as if no one knew I was a Batfan already. LOL). Without pre-ordering, I wouldn't gotten to play the games I love for at least a year. Although I do hope the offer that Best Buy has for Batman :AC does go to other stores so everyone can be Batman...or Catwoman...or Robin...whatever floats you cape and cowl!
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Comment by BassSamurai on June 23, 2011 at 9:52pm -
Preorder exclusives piss me off, too. I don't preorder games because I wait until reviews come out, and I don't want to waste my money. Most of the time I even wait a couple months for it to cheapen. I'll preorder this because it looks amazing and I want the complete game, but I'm really not happy about it.
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Comment by Pencil Mage on June 22, 2011 at 9:19pm -
To be honest Jeff, I don't understand why preorder and preorder bonuses are such a pet peeve of yours. I like the ablility to buy a game in advance to make sure I get said game on the day it comes out without worry of it not being there when I go to pick it up. Preorder bonueses are just something to sweeten the pot when you pre order a game from gamestop or amazon, besides, most of the time the bonues come out as DLC for the game anyway so would you rather pre order a game and get some DLC as a bonus, or wait a month later to pay 5 bucks for it later. Honestly I find the DLC more irritating that pre-ordering.
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Comment by LempiElinika on June 22, 2011 at 7:30pm -
You people should know if you pre-order a game on bestbuy.com you get it the day of release. Thats what I did with Red Faction. got the bonus and everything. stop complaining.
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Comment by InfiniteRaiders on June 22, 2011 at 2:54pm -
If I could pre-order it on Amazon and get Robin as a playable character, I'd be fine with it. But the fact that it's a Best Buy exclusive is bullshit.
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Comment by It's Just Ryan on June 22, 2011 at 2:41pm -
I have to disagree
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Comment by lexloco on June 22, 2011 at 2:07pm -
I'm not that bothered by it. This type of pre-order bonus is a way to make people buy these games as oppose to simply renting it or buying it used at a discount. The exclusivity of it, I guarantee, will only last a few months if that long. It'll wind up coming out as DLC for a nominal fee. If you want it now buy it from Best Buy and get it for free, if it doesn't mean that much to you either get it later or avoid it at all. Personally I'm just glad its a Best Buy exclusive and not a system exclusive like Joker was in the last one. Those are much less likely to get a general DLC release down the line.
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Comment by Jampolinski on June 22, 2011 at 12:51pm -
@Happy Birthday Roboto yes I do have a deviantart but I don't really update it that often.
Behance.net/jampolinski
Rocknessmonster.deviantart.com
jampolinski.blogspot.com
I've been tapped to work on a webcomic coming out soon so I haven't had a lot of time for personal art.
Thanks for the kind words!
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Comment by Happy Birthday Roboto on June 22, 2011 at 12:46pm -
@Jmpolinski
You rock dude! You on Deviantart?
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