I don't live in NA. Cars aren't really a luxury, they're a necessity, even in urban areas (except I'd say Paris and London).

No, people who use crowd funding are clever. People who buy into it are fanatics. It's not even like a store preorder where there are certain guarantees in place (like being able to cancel, or if the game never comes out you get your money back). The definition of a fanatic suits people who purchase things on…

"when nobody cares!"

Free DLC is free when it isn't paid in advance. New content like vehicles, cars, play modes, creation modes, missions.

Pre-ordering was mentioned by someone saying "they're not getting what they ordered".

Bzzzt, nope. Preorders are not counted in first week sales. They're split into four categories. Preorders, first week, first month, tail.

You can make lovely loops into antonyms of a starter word through synonyms too. We're talking about the word you keep misusing - "Promise".

Except they did, everything they said has come to pass. And was thoroughly enjoyable with no gated DLC blocking people off parts of the game.

That makes no sense. Why? I'm not misusing a word.

No, because like I said, for every game I've worked on or examined, first-week sales of a game eclipse preorder sales.

Equally as good, plus if your shower is the right size; excellent acoustics..

We're not talking about synonyms. A promise is a explicitly stated guarantee of something. You can't say "because X mentioned something" that it's a promise. That isn't how it works.

In the run up they constantly said Online wasn't coming at launch, but to happen soon after. And they were right. They said Online Heists were coming but didn't give a date. Then they did, twice, and went past it, but they never said they weren't coming.

Yes by all means take an exception to the rule and consider it the standard.

That's it - if you take a risk the onus is on you. If you buy a game expecting something, and you don't get it, then it's your fault for letting yourself be swayed. Those things are great for sucking up money from those more foolish with it.

Are you not aware of how a promise works? What "coming this spring" is, is a statement. Not a promise. Like I have to keep reminding you - promises cannot be guessed like that. It's kind of their defining feature you know.

Boom. Perfect.

Where were they promised? You have to be precise now. A promise must be implicitly stated as being a promise.

So then you sound like a fool if you think what was good before matters now.

"pre-orders, crowd funding, early access, season passes, or a myriad of other things" Exactly, those things are built to extract money from fanatics, not normal people. Normal people get opinions, reviews. Seriously you're telling me you're in 2015 and you rely solely on what a marketing department tells you?