Rant: US Silent Hill Downpour Pre-Order Bonuses
Posted By: Whitney February 14th, 2012 | 12:58 am
After seeing Best Buy’s disappointing pre-order bonus today I just had to write this…
The Pre-order bonuses in the US totally suck! We aren’t getting any sort of physical items only a variety of in-game weapons, which is so lame given that the inventory system in Downpour won’t let us hang on to said bonus in-game weapons as we play! What makes it even worse is that other countries are offering some kick ass physical goodies for pre-ordering in addition to the same bonus in-game weapons.
In Mexico they are giving away mugs, flashlights and laptop cases While in Australia two retailers are offering a very cool Downpour t-shirt and poster combo.
I am le sad. I put an order into Amazon so at least I won’t have to pay sales tax, I get the game on the release day with free shipping and a $10 Amazon credit. Also since I pre-ordered HD Collection there as well I can take $5 off my Downpour purchase.
I also put in a pre-order to Australian retailer JB Hi-Fi (who’s willing to ship internationally) so at least I’ll have some cool Downpour bonus items coming for my Silent Hill collection.
So are you guys disappointed as well? If you are pre-ordering which retailer are you going with?
The pre-order bonuses are a slap in the face, period. Seriously, giving us weapons in a game where weapons break? I already pre-ordered from Best Buy a while back as they have always been super-reliable with pre-orders even sometimes getting the orders to me before the release date. Gave up on bonuses when the bonuses were announced for GameStop, but giving Konami’s treatment of the game so far I’m not surprised they chose to cheap out when it comes to the U.S.
This is why I’m getting mine on midnight at Wal Mart. Nobody else will even be around to get it but me and my bro Cinnamontoastken. Small town n such. No need to worry with pre-orders or anything. I’m guaranteed a copy.
I am very disappointed that they are not giving us anything physical. That is just lame. At least… at the very least they could have let us have a digital copy of the soundtrack. But alas, I went ahead and broke down and preordered today March 12th, just incase they actually run out. But mostly so maybe I can sell my stupid digital weapon pack to some schmuck. Can’t wait to get started on it tomorrow….errr today.