Ah, well I don't have a problem buying things sight-unseen, as long as I know what I'm getting myself into. Drakengard 3 is about the only game I've bought recently on a whim, and it turned out to be the best game I've played in a very long time. Watch_Dogs, I pretty much expected to fail to live up to the retarded amount of hype Ubi generated for it, and bought a cheap Nvidia voucher accordingly (sadly, even $25 felt like too much spent on it in the end).
This game was an extremely ambitious concept, developed by a unproven studio, and when S-E saw the final product they apparently felt that it was deserving of zero promotion or advertising whatsoever. The massive disappointment of Beyond: Two Souls left me rather wary of games in this genre too. So yeah, I didn't pay for it. Had reviewers been wrong about the game I'd happily have paid, or at least bought an AMD Never Settle Silver/Gold voucher off Ebay, but unfortunately they were right.