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[–] statiksh0ck@lemmy.usuck.fyi 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ain't no way I was gonna be buying BO7 on launch until I played it and made sure it was decently optimized. I've been baited too often by games running/being fine during beta/open access only for it to be a completely different story on launch day.

I was going to get it via Game Pass for the first month before, now that they lost sales I definitely will be lol

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't this something everyone should do with every game? No pre-order, wait until reviews are out. If not really needed, then wait until patches are out, maybe with a small or big sale on the game price too. Almost all AAA games launch broken or unoptimized.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Pre-orders are bad for players and bad for devs. They're only good for publishers.