Cusith: Doesn't the video explicitly say you can buy the droid yourself without corp aid.
I would have to watch it again, but I don't think I remember such a line.
Dex wants V and Jack to get the bot, but he doesn't offer them the money to buy it (
partly because he is enemies with the gang) - but he gives V the corp contact (
on the shard, that she jacks in) and mentions, it could be useful to go that route.
Apart from that - V and Jack simply don't have the necessary 50k to buy the bot.
When V is with the ripperdoc, she says, she pays him later (
and her wallet contains only ED140,-)
Cusith: That said I do think things going sideways should be a possibility particularly if you don't do work to understand things before going in.
Sure.
But where was a way to "work to understand" things.
How could V and Jack have learned that the chip was rigged?
There is even the suggestion from the narrator, that V and Jack could just keep the creds (
but that would make it much more difficult to get the bot - again, they have not the necessary money).
But now that we know that the credchip was rigged...do you believe we could just take the money?
Or would the game just screw us over in a new way?
I fear, it will be the latter.
But again, as I said yesterday already: it's just a gameplay demo...we'll have to wait and see, how the final game will turn out.