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Old 11-14-2014, 03:00 PM   #93
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This is one of the most bullshit marketing moves ever. It's like ordering a rack of ribs and having it delivered to your table, but you can only sit there and stare at it for another 2 days. Those bastards are just leveraging our childish excitement.
I don't think it has anything to do with marketing. It's technical. Allowing people to download early means we can all start playing the day physical copies of the game are available in stores, and there's little to no risk of the download servers going down. Basically we don't have to wait to play on launch day. And it's certainly not specific to dragon-age: I've preloaded every game I've preordered going back several years.

People are going to get street copies early too. Amazon in particular is notorious for shipping games to people before you can play them (ostensibly for launch day delivery) and it's occasionally brick-and-mortar stores stock games early.
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