{"id":3809,"date":"2018-02-28T21:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2018-02-28T21:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:33:57","slug":"day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3809","title":{"rendered":"Pre-order Baits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wonderful temptation of pre-ordering games online is an excellent venus fly tray I\u2019ve avoided for years.\u00a0 Gamers are baited with extra goodies for parting with their cash as an early adopter of the title.<\/p>\n<p>As a rule, I never do this but for FarCry 5 I\u2019ll make an exception rather than a habit of it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3808\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FarCry5_preorder.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3808 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FarCry5_preorder-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FarCry5_preorder-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FarCry5_preorder-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FarCry5_preorder-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FarCry5_preorder.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Money or your life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Streamers, however, are pulled into this to boost their viewing and subscriber numbers and people naturally want to see the actual gameplay before diving in.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t catch a Beta for FarCry 5 but already had some hands-on gameplay at a Gaming conference late last year; the look and feel is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the pre-order options are more attractive for the digital version so you are literally playing on Hour One of the new release.\u00a0 Predictably, the very same title will be available for 30-40% lower a few months later.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3807\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StarWars.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3807 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StarWars-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StarWars-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StarWars-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StarWars-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StarWars.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On sale already?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wonderful temptation of pre-ordering games online is an excellent venus fly tray I\u2019ve avoided for years.\u00a0 Gamers are baited with extra goodies for parting with their cash as an early adopter of the title. As a rule, I never do this but for FarCry 5 I\u2019ll make an exception rather than a habit of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pre-order Baits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-money-and-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3814,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}