Tag Archives: pre-order bonuses

Behind the line: Adobe examines Pre-orders, and other gaming stuff

This week a curious thing came out.  Adobe (yeah, the people behind Acrobat, Photoshop, and Flash) released a report about gaming trends.  I didn’t know they did this sort of thing, but it appears that among their other products they

Point Streak Podcast: Pre-Orders

Point Streak returns and homes in on a target that is scarcely ever boring – gaming Pre-Orders.  Are they anti-consumer?  Anti-common sense?  Is there such thing as a decent/fair incentive to lay dow your money in advance for a game? 

Dying Light of Evolve

The Black Dragon returns to set fire to the popular trends of pre-order bonuses and season passes that have plagued gaming. The recent release of Dying Light and the upcoming Evolve are perfect examples of these ridiculous trends. If you

Point Streak Podcast: Exclusives

The subject of Exclusivity has been covered before at Enthusiacs…but never really goes away.  In this week’s Point Streak we find Jeff, Tony and Brian weighing in on everything from console exclusives to exclusive content – ploys much loved by publishers