Continuing gaming’s worst trend, you can play Avowed five days early as long as you’re willing to pay over $90

My least favorite gaming trend is Avowed, which means you can play it five days early if you’re willing to pay some extra money for it.

Video game company executives really do try to get you to pay more for their games, don’t they? They can’t just leave it with microtransactions, live service models, expansions, deluxe editions, all that crap, they have to add some incentives like paying more so you can play before everyone else. “Oh, look at this, you can brag that you played the latest hit game first and it only cost you a day’s salary!” Jog! However, the same trend will appear in Avowed, as Obsidian recently detailed a premium version of the game, and yes, you can play the game five days early if you’re willing to pay $90.

Yes, that’s right, if you do want to play almost a week early, you’ll have to spend about a day’s salary on the premium version. That’s not all you get, you do get two premium skin packs, as well as the game’s digital art book and soundtrack, but if we’re serious, spending that kind of money is a bit of a pantser, right? Do you want me to spend so much money in vain? Yeah, I think I’ll give up on the premium version, but good luck to those who get it early and hopefully this Elder Scrolls-like RPG doesn’t suffer from Elder Scrolls-like game-breaking bugs.

If you’re using Xbox Game Pass, you don’t have to pay for the game at all, since it’ll be available on the service from day one (on the Ultimate tier, anyway), but you’ll still need to purchase the game if you If you are eager to play as soon as possible, you can choose the premium version.