What's with pre-purchase rewards...

I think it's stupid. If you want to reward your customers do it, but don't add some stupid system where they get rewarded by how many people pre-purchase your game.

1- Add more bonuses via that method

2- Put Tf2 items in Midtier/high tier unlock

3- ????

4- Profit

So they are asking 50€ for game and it has pay to win stuff in it?

Because customers are good little sheep and when they see the "free stuff" tag they will pre-order it now with out knowing anything about it for the full price instead of waiting for those pesky sales... also prevents them from not buying it at all if it turns out to be shit. Bonus points if the system is being cleverly manipulated so the level needed for the free game is never reached(cough XCOM cough). Ok, ok, that last one might not be true, but hey, pessimism! :D

Um, if you meant about the XP boosting stuff in particular, simple words can't describe how lame that is so I'll just call it ridiculous and leave it at that.

Yeah I noticed this too just today. The "in-game currency" bit in the Features section sounds like they added microtransactions for the multiplayer part. Could anyone confirm? I hope we're not there yet, this isn't even a MMO, things are really getting out of hands...

They want people to pay that overblown $60 or more price. So they add crap to make it happen. I'm not affected but such games however. Most I ever paid for a game was $30 for Warcraft 3 Collectors Edition about six months after the game came out.

They should do it like what happened with Torchlight 2. Pre-order and you get the original

I completely see your point some of the pre order stuff is stupid, in my opinion the best for the customer and developers would be to give the first game if its a sequel, as if you have not played it you get to see the story for the first or give it to a friend who might then end up picking up the second. by the way I already pre ordered CoH 2 because if you played the first and like RTS its an absolutely amazing game

Well, there's plenty of time for people to make those rewards happen. It doesn't release until sometime in "early" 2013.

just say thanks for anyway you get that reward and end of story -.-

What I remember from gamescom is that all games will have some micropayment feature or atleast booster packs (e.g. battlefield 3) with addition to some "social" integrity.
Luckily it will not touch indie developers, atleast now.

I think that company of heroes will have stronger rpg features than before.

About pre-purchase rewards … I dont know, for me sounds third reward from XCOM better – Civilization 5

Men of War > Company of Heroes Nuff said. The 1st one was really meh, I don't even feel like I'm playing a WW2 RTS. It doesnt even feel like they didnt try to make it dawn of war except for the setting.

I don't mind pre-order bonuses. It is a cheap and effect way for developers to give back to their loyal fans, and some bonues are get pretty damn cool(aka playing as Stan Lee in the Amazing Spiderman game). Also there are a few developers and a few publishers(ok there WAS a single publisher) I will always support with pre-orders. I want these companies to get the full value of the games they are making so I can keep enjoying new games as they come out. Working Designs was a company back in the day(and was the only publisher I would pre-order all their titles) that always had a niffty pre-order bonus. Granted their pre-order swag was actual watches, clocks, and other goodies, but the fact remains that they never disappointed me with the quality of the games they brought over and since they were a small company they actually needed the upfront support to keep them going.

I finally actually preordered my second game, xcom and it better be be xcom, I swear if it's xcom enforcer again I will be pissed. And the only reason I own enforcer it came with the bundle.

Having pay-to-win stuff as a pre-order bonus is idiotic at best.
Yes, there is going to be people who want pay-to-win because they prefer to spend more money to get through a game faster, but most of those people are certainly not going to pre-order the game...

It's the most fucked up pre-order system , why the fuck would you buy it now and get shit when other buy it a week later and get a free game + tf2 hats + other benefits.

It's lame and its sounds like a gamble ,you're pre-ordering to get a specific reward but if there aren't enough pre-orders you wont get it and then you're disappointed and frustrated.

I thinks its a terrible idea but anyway most pre-order offers are good like borderlands 2 come with golden gun pack, vault hunters relic, golden key, mechromancer etc. But I still wish borderlands 2 came with some tf2 items :c

Game can turn out to be bullshit. Why waithing for bad reviews and ranking at Metacritic? You buy a full game without konwing if it's actually good just to get some cool stuff. Greedy ones.

It's the Kickstarter model of building hype and attracting dollars. If it works, they'll keep doing it.

You saw it here first and I still think this new system is bullshit.