Hello everyone!
 Thanks for reading this.
 
I would like to talk about pre-order bonuses today.  
I think they are a sham, I don't think there should be a lack of content for those who purchase the game new but not necessarily on the launch day.  This seems to only reward the zealots of the product and punish the ones that don't know about your product, or weren't interested until the reviews come out.  I much prefer the mass effect 2 approach where if you buy the product new you get extra content but if you buy it used you have to buy into that extra content.  I know that mass effect 2 used pre-order bonuses as well but those just extra suits and such, not as big a deal as access to their ciberus network.
 
Thoughts???

" This seems to only reward the zealots of the product and punish the ones that don't know about your product, or weren't interested until the reviews come out.   "

they want to reward the people that preordered it. i think that they shouldn't have rewarded things like a better gun. i forgot what it was but if you preordered it you got some guns that you get after playing of 24 hour gameplay. that is kind of cheap thing to do. the people that preordered it have better guns in the beginning. 

Pre-order bonuses are a little annoying but I think the EA practise you talked about of putting codes for extra content in with their games is far worse. Pre-order bonuses allow companies to reward those who are most dedicated to their products, putting codes in with games however is an effort to make it so that the publishers control the vast majority of the games market.

I can see I'm out numbered.  
Perhaps I feel this way because I buy so many games and I cannot get all of them day one, but I follow the industry so close that I usually know about these bonuses and I am sad I miss out.  I can understand why companies do it, but I wonder if anyone feels the same way I do, or if a majority of people think that the studios/publishers are justified?