Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will be released on October 21, 2025. The action-RPG video game is the sequel to the cult classic Vampire: The Masquer...
I’ve preordered games before and not regretted it.
This is definitely not going to be such a case. The amount of development hell this game has gone through, it’ll be a miracle if it even ends up good enough that I decide to buy it at all. I’m certainly not buying it sight unseen.
They don’t even seem to be offering any incentive to pre-order? Which honestly might be a good thing. It reduces the accusations of gating content…and they’ve got enough to deal with on that front already, considering two clans and a heap more content are gated behind day-one DLC. $45 day-one DLC, in fact (in Australia at least). That’s as much as a full game in many cases. (Including all of the other games in the VtM franchise. In fact, of the 20 other games in the World of Darkness franchise linked in a collection on Steam from this game’s Steam page, only 2 are more than half that.)
I’ve preordered games before and not regretted it.
This is definitely not going to be such a case. The amount of development hell this game has gone through, it’ll be a miracle if it even ends up good enough that I decide to buy it at all. I’m certainly not buying it sight unseen.
They don’t even seem to be offering any incentive to pre-order? Which honestly might be a good thing. It reduces the accusations of gating content…and they’ve got enough to deal with on that front already, considering two clans and a heap more content are gated behind day-one DLC. $45 day-one DLC, in fact (in Australia at least). That’s as much as a full game in many cases. (Including all of the other games in the VtM franchise. In fact, of the 20 other games in the World of Darkness franchise linked in a collection on Steam from this game’s Steam page, only 2 are more than half that.)