{"id":4520,"date":"2015-10-01T13:44:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aptgadget.com\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2015-10-01T13:44:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T17:44:17","slug":"square-enix-kills-terrible-pre-order-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aptgadget.com\/fr\/square-enix-kills-terrible-pre-order-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix Kills Terrible Pre-Order Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t swing a cat without hitting a pre-order program these days. Often times the pre-order details are released along side the intitial game announcement. \u00a0With Square Enix&#8217;s upcoming <em>Deus Ex<\/em> game, <em>Mankind Divided<\/em>\u00a0the publisher took the pre-order structure to the next level with the ability to &#8220;augment&#8221; your pre-order via a Kickstarter like tiered structure. It was a terrible idea, which Square now apparently realizes as they&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deusex.com\/news\/aypo-cancelled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;augment your pre-order&#8221; was designed, according to the publisher, to give fans more flexibility by giving them some choice as far as what pre-order bonuses they received. This sounds pretty nice on it&#8217;s face. he problem was when they added Kickstarter like stretch goals based on the number of overall preorders. As different preorder levels were hit more pre-order material would be given out, culminating in the game being released four days early if the top tier was reached.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash to this who idea was fairly severe and today Square Enix announced the pre-order plan had been cancelled. Now all of the incentive product is available to anybody who preorders the game or purchases the Day 1 edition. The game will be released on it&#8217;s original date of February 23, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good thing. Pre-orders do absolutely nothing for gamers, they exist only to build hype and put extra money in a companies pocket before they release their game. As <em>Batman : Arkham Knight<\/em> proved even the most successful and top tier titles can have serious problems at launch. Trying to entice fans to pre-order is one thing, trying to draw in people who would not otherwise do so to get in on your scheme in order to &#8220;help&#8221; everybody is something else entirely.<\/p>\n<p>If this plan had worked you would have seen every other publisher following suit. Killing this idea dead is better for gamers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t swing a cat without hitting a pre-order program these days. Often times the pre-order details are released along side the intitial game announcement. \u00a0With Square Enix&#8217;s upcoming Deus Ex game, Mankind Divided\u00a0the publisher took the pre-order structure to the next level with the ability to &#8220;augment&#8221; your pre-order via a Kickstarter like tiered &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Square Enix Kills Terrible Pre-Order Program - AptGadget.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Square Enix ends controversial pre-order program for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aptgadget.com\/fr\/square-enix-kills-terrible-pre-order-program\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Square Enix Kills Terrible Pre-Order Program\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Square Enix ends controversial pre-order program for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aptgadget.com\/fr\/square-enix-kills-terrible-pre-order-program\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AptGadget.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-10-01T17:44:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/aptgadget.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mankind2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Stephen &quot;Dirk&quot; 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