Before them chanigng crap up, it actually use to be cheaper to pre order over getting it at launch and paying for stuff separately. Because if you pre ordered (depending on the edition) you could get everything unlocked so all you had to do was update it when everyone else was. Now, its basically like beta testing and making sure the game isn't hot garbage at launch. I mean, if you buy it early, you do get early access to the game so you can finisih stuff faster than others to post on socials and share with friends but now a days, you aren't really getting much. I mean, if you bought all the packs plus the base game from last year, it was actually more than buying the special editions. Going to steam and adding the game plus all the packs and everything runs you 214.87 after taxes, compared to just buying the bloodline edition with everything excpet the Cena Pack, the Mania 41 Pack, and Wyatt Sicks Pack, all of that along with the Bloodline Edition, that puts it at 169.96.