Yeah. The mantra is ‘no preorder,’ and I can sorta see why. This game screams ‘development Hell,’ the character faces and skins would have looked good in 2016, and there’s just something obnoxious about trying to make a Nosferatu look winsome. I don’t even mean the transgender thing. The World of Darkness has incorporated that stuff since long before it was trendy. But male, female, nonbinary, whatever: Nosferatu are supposed to be ugly. It’s the bloody, ha, point of that Clan.
I’d be looking for a refund from Steam, except I don’t think I can get one without wasting yet more of my precious time, which is worth more than the money I’d get back. Which basically would make my playing VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE BLOODLINES 2 an example of the sunk cost fallacy. I’d be better off just writing the whole thing off as a gambling expense, except that I can’t even do that.
So, hey! I guess they win. Well done, folks. Well freaking done.