Elder Scrolls Online Preorder out, rage incoming
 

https://account.elderscrollsonline.c...b2ff1dc1fb9671



http://youtu.be/-G4CFCU0fWM


essentially: XP bonus, exclusive race for pre-order only, exclusive mount for a pay to play game. Youtube video explains why this is a bad idea.

Prepare yourselves for a wave of "I told you so's"

I like the irony that Imperials are for pre-orders only.

I don't understand all the rage over this. Plenty of games have the whole "you only get this if you pre-order" or exclusive items if you get the collector's edition.This isn't something new. If anything I would be more worried about the seemingly bland combat.

I'm kinda okay with this because I thought they wouldn't have imperials at all and that sort of half-ruined the game for me. At least I get to play my favorite race now :/

The "rage" about it is because it's shady as hell. It's like when you buy a new xbox game on the first day it's released and find out there's already a DLC out...but wait, it's not a DLC. You just have to pay to unlock something that is already on the disk you just purchased.

It's charging for a whole product and then saying "But wait! You actually have to pay us more or you can only use 85% of what you just paid for."

They haven't charged you for anything yet so I'm not sure how they are charging you and then asking for more. This is an upfront pre-order bonus for a collectors edition, except instead of out of game swag like a keychain or some other stupid shit it's in game content that might not even be exclusive to the collectors edition down the line. It's actually not like anything you just listed at all because they are upfront about it. What you're talking about is actual shady practices.

Box price + sub = access to all content.

Not having access to all races unless you pay more than box price + sub = shady bullshit.

You guys won't have time for other MMOs when you're beta testing Velious in a few months, anyways.

It's a collectors edition, it's a different box price but it's still a box price. There's nothing shady about it. It might put a bad taste in your mouth or whatever but it's 20$ for some extra goodies because you paid for a digital collectors edition. It's the same as getting a statue or whatever, it's all pretty meaningless. There are people who don't even care to be an imperial getting all whiny about it, it really doesn't matter in the long run. But you can call it shady if you want, it has nothing to do with the above scenario of buying a game only to have extra content being hidden behind a price tag after purchase. This is upfront and clear.