Don't do it! Don't pre-order or get season passes or reward any company for proving literally nothing! Make them earn the moneys!

On the other hand, Bungie hasn't really let me down yet, and I'm getting Destiny 2 on day one without reading reviews anyway, so why not preorder and get some goodies along the way?

I would argue that your reply is also totally valid. I loved me some Destiny 1 even with all of its problems and lack of story. But I'm not pre-ordering the sequel, and I won't be buying it on day one. I'll probably wait a bit, hear what people irl, here, and on Xbox Live have to say, maybe consider PC, etc. But I won't reward that lack of story and all of the issues from the first game with a pre-order, if at the very least to spite Activision and whatever they're looking at.

Meh. So far I've seen:

• A great, hour long reveal event with some fantastic cutscenes and a good bit of awesome looking gameplay.
  
• A full recording of a cool looking Strike beginning to end.
  
• The recordings and impressions of multiple people who played multiplayer at the reveal event.
  
• A pair of podcasts that were decently informative
  
• And now, a nice end of a cutscene where the villain has more lines of dialogue than all of Destiny 1's raid bosses combined.

That, and I have three years with the first game that I greatly enjoyed. I think it's much safer to preorder Destiny 2 than it was for me to flip flop five hours later when I went from cancelling a preorder to upping it to the Ghost Edition.

Besides, Kahzgul told me preordering is ok now. :)

I can confirm that it's okay to pre-order as long as you can get a refund if the product isn't to your liking :)

The whole reason to be anti-pre-order is because you're buying something sight unseen with no recourse if it isn't as advertised. Having the option of a refund means you have recourse. Personally, I think that lends itself more towards pre-ordering, since it will help the devs figure out how many servers they need by launch, get better pre-launch beta data (or at least more of it), and let them know that X number of people will be returning their product if it stinks, which makes their sunk cost in infrastructure that much more painful if the product doesn't measure up.

So... Only pre-order if you know you can get a refund. Otherwise, wait for the reviews. Those six hours won't kill you.

And, really, if devs want to see bigger pre-order numbers, they should unmuzzle reporters a week or so before launch so you can have reviews before release.

I have to say though that the video was super cliche. The music, dialogue, all of it. Not that it matters for the game, but it's just another "counterfeit" trailer from Activision.

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Love ya, Raga, but I can't relate (and I've tried). There were probably technical reasons as well as business reasons for limiting the alpha to the PS4. I can understand disappointment and jealousy and railing against exclusivity in the video game industry as a problem. I can't understand treating it like a personal betrayal by Bungie. The alpha access was a very short-lived bonus.

The worst part about exclusives seems to be their reveal. Or, the anticipation. For example, once XBox got access to the previous exclusives (i.e. the 1st round exclusives like Hawkmoon) I found out I did not care.

And I never cared. I mean I almost always played strikes as part of a playlist, so on the PS4 I'd get an exclusive strike every once in a while and think: this is something I haven't played very often. But I never recall missing anything on the Xbox. It might have been different if I'd become attached to the exclusive exotic or something, but half the time I didn't get those anyway.