If there’s one thing the modern triple-A industry loves to push, it’s pre-orders for games. Despite how you should never fall into that trap, sometimes a big game comes around that you just really want to get your hands on. If that big game happens to be Marvel’s Avengers for you, Square Enix has some really dumb-looking collector’s editions that come with 72-hour early-access periods to the “final” game.
The second is the more ridiculous “Earth’s Mightiest Edition.” Retailing for a stupendous $199.99, this will include the DLC skins and early-access from the deluxe version along with a 12-inch statue of Captain America, a steelbook game case, a Hulk bobblehead, a keychain of Mjolnir, Black Widow’s belt buckle, a blueprint for Iron Man’s prototype armor, Kamala Khan’s honorary Avenger pin, and a commemorative Avengers group photo. That’s certainly a whole lot of nonsense.
Far be it from me to tell you what to spend your money on, but this doesn’t seem like a good deal. Not only do collector’s editions like this tend to fall in price rather quickly, but the plan with Marvel’s Avengers is to support the game for many years as a live-service type of game. With no real announcement of how DLC is going to be handled, what is spending all of this extra money really going to get you?
Most modern games launch in troublesome states, as well. Just last year, Ubisoft launched Ghost Recon Breakpoint a few days early for buyers of the $100 “Gold Edition” and it was a total mess. Square Enix might have a better track record with launching games, but getting things on day-one has slowly become pointless.
Source: IGN
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