Pre-Order Cancelled?

Cool. Its good to know that the gaming community will push back if something is freaking egregious like that.

Seriously? That's actually great news!

www.deusex.com/news/aypo-cancelled

Here is an article confirming the cancelling

Link

All the content that was in the Kickstart program will now be available to everyone who pre-orders or purchases day one.  I'll still wait because Square-Enix loves releasing "enhanced" or "Complete" versions of these games later on.

Here is the official Release about the cancelling of the program from the official sire:


Official response from Game Website (not linking it because I don't feel like giving there website traffic at the moment)
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Shutting Down Augment Your Pre-Order
2015-10-01 12:53:50

At both Square Enix and Eidos-Montréal, we’ve been listening to everything you’ve had to say about the Augment Your Pre-Order program. When it was first conceived, we wanted the program to give you more choice about what you received in terms of pre-order incentives - because we've seen in the past that when we choose those packages ourselves, and split them across regions, it has caused frustration. We quickly noticed that this approach created even more frustration than before, resulting in a resounding amount of negative feedback.

We’ve spent a lot of time reading through all of your comments, working to understand how we can try to make things right for you. After much thought and reflection, we decided to close down the program and make all of the incentive content available to anyone who pre-orders Deus Ex: Mankind Divided or purchases a Day 1 edition of the game. Additionally, the release date will no longer be changed in accordance with pre-order numbers, and everyone will gain access to the game on February 23rd, 2016.

Your feedback and input is of the utmost importance to us-- as it’s your loyalty and passion for our franchises that gives us the opportunity to continue providing you with great gaming experiences.

To our faithful fans who’ve already pre-ordered: we will be taking care of everything necessary to ensure that all of the changes to the program will be automatically applied to your purchase. Meanwhile, we'd like to thank everybody for their feedback - we know this wouldn't have happened with a game that nobody cared about, and we're just focusing now on delivering a game that lives up to your hopes and expectations.

Thanks for your support!

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I do love the parts where they are saying the program was a benefit to the players by giving players choice. Of course the main issue here is:

- This isn't really choice, the publisher is still locking off content to the customer meaning they would still need to purchase multiple copies of the game to get all the pre-order content.  this is no different than having store exclusives except that what content you get is dependant on the number of pre-orders received.

- the content is restricted by the number of pre-orders, this feels intentional to get customers to promote the game and get more people to pre-order just to unlock the content.

You should never buy any AAA game at launch.

Eh, I have enough games anyway that I don't get around to buy new games at release. Plus, not all AAA games I bought at release day turned out to be unpolished turds, though that number has been steadily increasing across the industry.

But I have a couple ironclad rules, like not buying anything Square Enix that isn't a Definitive/whatever edition, not buying anything Ubisoft period, not buying a MP focused game if the release of the prior game by the same developer was botched (looking at you DICE) and not preordering anything EA.

Actually, the only game in my radar right now that's still getting a free pass is XCom2 ...

Now I'll actually pre-order.

Yup.

And totally not gave it for free even if players already owned the base game and TML, still charged everyone at least ten bucks.

For a downgraded game build, which is funny because the original reasoning why TML was a standalone DLC has been that it's based on a newer version of the game engine and as such not compatible with the base game. The ONLY thing they didn't totally rip people off with was they actually reworked the boss fights to givee players more gameplay choices, but even that isn't much considering they simply copy/pasta'd those changes from the, what was it, WiiU version of the game.

Dick move SqEn, real dick move.

But whatever, nearly every publisher somehow thought it'd be real cool to fuck over their customers ever since DRM became a thing and by now, it's finally coming to bite them in the ass after people are progressively having enough of it and simply not buying their crap anymore.