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Publishers accept pushed pre-order incentives for years. In the early days, consumers typically earned rewards past pre-ordering any edition of a game from whatever retailer. In recent years, the situation has grown more complex with specific editions of games featuring exclusive content. Stranger of Paradise: Terminal Fantasy Origin joins this growing list of digital-sectional bonuses via its Digital Deluxe Edition.

Every bit revealed today through the official Stranger of Paradise Twitter account, customers that pre-order the game's Digital Deluxe Edition get admission to three bonus missions: Wanderer of Rift, Trials of the Dragon King, and Different Futurity. The post states that these missions will not exist available separately, significant concrete owners are left out in the cold.

The tweet's phrasing is peculiar as information technology specifies users go the missions "when they arrive," suggesting that they're more pregnant pieces of content than you lot might await. Looking through the official website's Digital Palatial Edition listing, this version of the game includes a season pass consisting of iii missions, indicating that the season pass is locked backside the Digital Deluxe Edition. This information is farther corroborated with the PlayStation Store and Microsoft Shop listings denoting the same missions equally part of the season pass. The flavor pass is currently not bachelor as a separate purchase.

Stranger of Paradise: Concluding Fantasy Origin officially releases on March 18, 2022 on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, with digital versions getting 3 days of early access. This is yet another bonus that concrete owners miss out on, which is slowly condign an industry trend. In cases that a specific version doesn't lock content behind its paywall, chances are growing that any digital edition may offer some form of early access. Many publishers are seemingly pushing consumers away from physical purchases with these kinds of practices.