8 Video Game Pre-Orders That Made You Say WHAT?!
4. Ranger Mode - Metro: Last Light
Don't you hate it when you're looking at an object that's clearly well made and with a huge amount of care, and then you notice a dirty great mark that looks like someone's unclean arse took a scoot over one part of it?
It suddenly becomes less a showpiece you want to share with your friends and more a blight you can't ignore, and have to ask why the hell is it even there in the first place.
Such was the case of Metro: Last Light's incredulously rubbish pre-order idea of taking a much requested and indeed much-loved difficulty mode (known as Ranger Mode) and only offering it as a pre-order bonus.
This stinky business decision caught the flak and ire of the community who couldn't believe an entire difficulty mode was being effectively pay-walled.
We're used to scrounging in the post-apocalypse of the Metro universe but even this was too desperate for many, making the backlash to the announcement pretty considerable.