From this side of the argument? Yes. If you want both (books AND OST) it is expensive as hell...

No blindbuy here, as there seem to be no update paths. If you buy the wrong collection now, you are screwed...

@HunchBluntley: 80 minutes pressed CD for 15 bucks? Yeah. 15 bucks for DIGITAL music only? Nope. Sorry.

Just watch the last video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajy6H05bCHQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ged_Grimes

That pretty much explains the price of the soundtrack, and Simple Minds being one of my all time favourites, the price is reasonable - for me :)

Another backer here

Does Unreal 4 comes with telemetry like Unity 5 ?

Do I get it right pre-order offers no price cut? No deal (I don't care about special pre-order items).

This game looks amazing, I've been watching a few gameplay videos since the announcement. The character customization and turn based combat is enough to consider me sold, the pretty graphics are just a bonus.

Und wann ist bald? :)

I was about to pre-order, but paid in-game items are a no-go for me. Bye.

Thing is, they already permanently reduced the price to 34.99 based on a wishlist campaign, that might explain why there's no discount in this case.

Wait, not saying you're wrong but I'd be pissed if there were in-game items that could be purchased for money given InXile's stance on this (see the whole Red Boots DLC recurring joke).
Did I miss something? Would you mind pointing me to the part that mentions such items?

Are there any preorder bonuses? As I unterstand, these extra contents are only dependent on which tier you choose. You can also get them after release.

+1!

I will rather fire up my old C64 (or play the original BT using DOSBOX on the PC) and play Bard's Tale 1 to find a "Kael's Axe" in one of the dungeons at no additional cost before I pay EUR 80 for the ultimate platinum xxx-large BT4 version here!

Collector's editions of games including (real physical) goodies made sense as long as you received a limited boxed edition of a game, including maybe a real cloth map, a hardcover book printed on paper, sometimes even a clue book thrown into the box for those who wanted to have it a little bit easier.

That's one of the downsides of digital delivery: they expect you to pay premium for a game they can sell as often as they find someone willing to pay for it at no additional cost for the seller although these goodies are not limited at all. As long as this scam is limited to maybe the availability of an art book or the sound track that's not a problem because only those who really want to have these goodies will buy them.

But when the basic version of the (still quite expensive) game is missing content for which you have to pay another 50 % compared to the the base game price (EUR 34.99 in my case and EUR 49.99 for the platinum version with just a few more in-game items thrown in) I will just say NO and they have lost another customer.

Yeah. It is a bard skin. The rest you can find in the game. (The red boots DLC is a joke btw there is nothing in it, just to show that they are not going the way like other publishers.)

If the skin as preorder bonus is enough to don't buy the game, than this is very sad.

Baker myself I have such a fun with the remaster version of the old game right now.

Thank you for this clarification but are you sure regarding "The rest you can find in the game"? Why would they sell these items with a separate (premium) version which costs 50 % more than the standard version if these items can still be found in the (standard) game? What's the difference between the game versions then?

I remember that e.g. for the buyers of the ultimate edition of "Dragon Age Origin" you also got some bonus items at the start of the game but if I remember correctly they were not available for other versions (you had to download them from the game website and install them after game installation).

game looks fun and i do like the series, will wait and see how the actual gameplay mechanics go, it could get old fast or be really fun