It would be kind of funny if you get home/to work and find a giant pile of 100 boxes just waiting for you stacked up around the front door.

Reggie?...

Xbox owners are now getting to experience what Apple users went through when M$ purchased Bungie pre-Halo.

when you play the Game of Pugs, everyone wins.

I feel like this game could easily be a Yes, it really depends on what you want out of the experience. If you go into it just wanting a world to have fun and a variety of things to explore, you can have fun and I'd recommend checking it out.

"But how long until games start segregating major characters or important sequences between editions, with the explicit implication that you're meant to buy multiple copies of the game, like some form of expensive digital gashapon?"

Some of the older games might remember the Escape Velocity series that was published by Ambrosia Software, back when they produced games exclusively. This looks like it could be a spiritual successor to those games!