It's simply not enough that GameStop and Steam are offering preorder bonuses for Dragon Age: Origins, or that there is a standard edition, Collector's Edition and Digital Deluxe edition to choose from. Nope, now Amazon has joined the party, offering its own set of exclusive goodies in exchange for buying BioWare's next RPG through them.
Amazon is offering a $10 gift card along with the Lion's Paw Boots, an in-game item that adds to the player's armor, dodge and missile evasion attributes. Remember, preordering through Steam gets you the Wicked Oath Ring, while preordering through GameStop gets you Feral Wolf Charm. Nearly all retailers are offering the Memory Ring as well. You are pretty much spoiled for choice.
I'm not sure if that much choice is a great thing, either. I mean, EA and BioWare seem to be taking the idea of exclusive bonuses and going mental with it. I dread to think what will happen with Mass Effect 2. Will we get to the point where every different retail chain will have something unique to offer? The idea of preorder exclusives has potential to get pretty ludicrous if this carries on.
Ah well, doesn't matter to me. This game is going to be awesome and you're going to agree.
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And then it turned out to be a pricing mistake :/
As per his e-mail:
[i]Always go for the PC over console. With DA on 360 and PS3 we've been testing it out and it's ok but DA is very much a PC game (esp if you're a PC player!!) from what i know they're actually are going to shove the DLC stuff onto PS3/360. So all be the same.
Speaking to me DA buddies, they said get it on PC if you're a PC player. always better. Plus you get to use the toolset! We made it on the PC, we tested it on the PC we had some guys port it to PS3/360! so us as developers never got to test our content on the console. So that would be another reason i wouldn't get the console.[/i]
Amazon's pre-order for the Collector's Edition is currently at $129 for PC and $145 for consoles, yet the same Collector's Edition directly from EA is only $65 for PC and $75 for consoles! I don't give a shit about boots! I'm ordering directly from EA with that much of a price difference!
I just looked at Amazon and it's the other way around. The EA copies are $129 and $145.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_3_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=dragon+age+origins&x=0&y=0&sprefix=dr
Now I'm all paranoid.
I don't trust preorders.
http://ctolpin.googlepages.com/dragonage_contentlist.jpg
http://eastore.ea.com/store/ea/en_US/DisplayCategoryProductListPage/ThemeID.718200&categoryID=27986100&childCategoryID=27986100
I do not work for Amazon.
I do not work for Amazon.