It's interesting topic , so many opinions ..... I think it's kinda silly but to each their own. It said Pre-order bonus not pre order exclusive, who cares if its available now especially if available as a small DLC like $5.99 US or if you want to go higher like $9.99. If it was offered for free in less than a year i could see an issue. . If you bought the pre-order you had exclusive use for 7 or 8 months now plus it was free Why would anybody care if it was available now at a price? .With the rocky start PC2 had why not try to gain as many customers as possible why discourage new players? You know there are tons of new players or players that may have not known about the pre-order, its not like game was announced a year in advance. Many new customers may say ehh if I can't get it all I'm not gonna bother. Why would frontier turn down any type of extra revenue stream? But I could see the other point of view , but I'm not wired that way. An example would be say a product shows up on store shelves and its a package deal with some cool extras included maybe gear or branded items but its a premium price right now because it's new and production is low, you gotta have it now so you purchase. Six months later you find out your neighbor just bought that same item on sale at a lower price and all that extra same stuff he bought online . Are you gonna be mad that he has the same thing ..... No your gonna be happy you got it when you did because you had time to enjoy it for 6 months. And waiting 5 years? is that read not sure sorry if not , at that point don't even bother. I thought if I remember Zoo came out with the pre-order stuff in the 10th month or maybe it was a year or so I thought.
why should we be punsihed because frontier made this absolutely bad decision of locking base game content behind a preorder bonus? basically your whole text sums up the whole point we all agree on: rides and such important part of the game should never have been put into a preorder bonus set.
now why should the people who preordered only for this reason get punished by taking that exclusive content away so shortly after release? yes we had the content for quite some time now, on the other hand many other players got 5 sales of the game, the deluxe package and its dlc in the meantime.
and your are correct, nowhere does it say the preorder bonus is exclusive. but as is literally not included in the standard game, it makes that content "exclusive" you know. its pretty self explanatory.
and its funny cause you claim its ok to release it 10 months after the games release but 5 years is to much. so we can clearly say the problem you have with this is the duration it takes to make it available for others. so on one hand you expect your opinion to be respected because you want it now, on the other hand you say its "silly" by other because they say give it to others after 5 years... doesnt realy make sense does it?
anyway, i think we all agree this kind of content should never have been made a preorder bonus. and we all agree that it can and should be made available to all. the only debating point is the "when" and i think that comes down to personal preference and opinion, which differs from person to person. no need in fighting and keeping running around in circles only to come back to this exact verdict that we already pinpointed like 20 posts ago...