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Wait, what??? What kind of person does this? When Rock Band 3 had pre-order bonuses, they at least programmed a code to obtain them for the people that got it elsewhere.
It's rare, but it does happen every now and then. There have actually been petitions for the company to release the locked data for everyone, but, clearly, they're not listening. I missed out on Mons like BlackWarGreymon for a while before I "learned" of the aforementioned trick and exploited it in order to finally complete said game properly. I really don't know why anyone would do that, but I have seen/heard of cases in the past where pre-order codes were the only way to unlock certain data that was necessary for the game to be completed. I don't know many other cases, as I have narrow interest searches, but I have heard of it popping up every so often. Again, they're kinda rare, as only very select games tend to get hit with it, but it has happened, which is why I often dread that if I don't get a certain pre-order game ASAP I might have some content locked away, as Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth proved.
EDIT: Forgot to mention something. This was back at least a year ago when I was looking into it, and they recently re-released Cyber Sleuth and Hacker's Memory as a "complete edition", so that may no longer be the case now (at least in the re-release's case, anyway). But during that time I ran into maybe one or two other examples, if memory serves, while hunting for a solution, so the cases of it happening are very far and few between. But, it proves that it has happened before. And, besides, given the fact that some games actually got the green light despite being either unpolished, unfinished, or riddled with bugs (Sonic 06 comes to mind), it can mean that such situations can arise, which is unfortunate for gamers (and their wallets) who get stuck with such issues.
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