Dragon Age 2 bonus DLC opens the Black Emporium for business

@Chewbetcha

i absolutely did. I even got the mod that let you always have the dog in the party as a 5th member so i would never have to leave it behind ever.

@Chewbetcha

Lol. That's an interesting way to play the game! Sadly, I rarely used him, mainly because he couldn't hold as much in inventory as a person (prior to playing Warden's Keep).

@Chewbetcha

I personally thought he was a terrible party member.

In fact, anything but a mage was pretty terrible. I played as a mage, with morrigan as dps, shale as tank, and leinina as lock-opener

@Chewbetcha
Actually the Mabari War Hound was one of the better tanks in the game. Not only that but any decision you made didn't affect his feelings toward the main character. Which helped when I did my 'evil' run through.

In Origins, the game "pushes" you to play a Mage. In Awakening, it pushes you to pick a 2H weapon using Warrior (which becomes downright godly once you get the quested legendary sword whose name I can't remember off hand).

@Meghterb1985
I dunno. It's not just restricted to them. All sorts of jerks are doing this crap, segregating content to being exclusive at certain retailers. It's really God damned irritating. Especially when different retailers have different exclusives.

@Demaar EA's the one who perpetuates it.

@Demaar Especially where I live retailers don't even normally do pre-orders

They want you to buy it, and buy it brand new. Hence the "bonuses", which in fact are fragments of a full game that are stripped to devaluate used copies.

@thesage42

Good. Teach you for using a shitty system like steam.

@thesage42
Agreed, I love the customer Reps in Bioware's forums trying to say that it just "happened" to finish negotiations a day after signature edition. As if Steam would have ANY complaints about selling the Special edition, on Steams side of the table they only lost money by not offering it, because fans DID go to other sources simply on the basis of not having signature edition available.

I can accept not offering it since it is a big potential money loss for bioware (every SI sold meant they wouldn't buy the first few DLCs). But at least have the slightest backbone and say "Yea, we did the math and decided not to" and don't try to feed BS like some part of the steam system wasn't ready for it despite steam having obscure games available for preorder half a year in advance.

@wcarnation

What $10 down payment? Buy the game new and you don't pay anything.

As for pre-order exclusive content, that has been around for a very long time.

@DaDragonsFire

Your lose. Enjoy missing out on one of the best games for a long time.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is

Yeah it lasted 2 months as one of the best RPG's until Mass Effect 2 came out :P