Games

Remember shareware?

Pepperidge farm remembers

I recall pre-ordering EA's Battlefront back then. I only played it for 4 hours at most. Should have pirated it.

I love this advice for 99% of games, but I pre-ordered Baldur's Gate III around three years ago now and have been able to play Early Access as a result.

/c/patientgamers

I don't pre-order really but I do get tempted with 18% off pre-order deals at various PC shops online

I don't even play half the games I buy. I just pre-order them so I get the cool goodies that come with the game like art books, metal cases, tapestries, etc.

You don't say? 🤔

Sega makes New Game Plus a premium edition exclusive

Preordering is 100% why the last console gen was full of half-assed releases. It has to stop.

I'm relying on some of you folks to do a "trial" for me and let me know. Your efforts are appreciated 😛

The only game I've preordered in the last like 5 years is Pikmen 4, and only because I enjoyed the demo so much.

What about pre-ordering for pickup? That way you have a guaranteed copy, but don't have to put anything down.

I have never pre-ordered a game.

I have however pre-ordered collectables which "come with a game" (despite the collectables likely being more than the game) or the privilege of being able to hang out with my friends at midnight to collect a game on release. And of those games Halo 2, Halo 3, and Battlefield 3 were the only 3.

These days there is even less reason to pre-order, but where I lived and the local small game shop, sometimes the only way to get a game within the first MONTH of release was a pre-order, where the store would literally..... Pre order. Its not a pre-order for you at the store, its the store ordering it from the distributor / publisher.

The very first game i ever purchased on Steam was a game where i went in for the 3rd week in a row and they said "sorry, still not had any come in for re-stock".

And now even more than ever is a BETTER time to pre-order. "Back in my days" good fucking luck being able to return a game if the 7 seals of security purity were not damaged. now, almost universal refunds for digital goods from most of the major game platform hosts.

Cyberpunk was the nail in my pre-order coffin, fuck those clowns and their shitty releases. I don't want the game to be good and playable 3 years after I bought it.

Oh and for the fan bois if the game was so good when released, why did they have to do a complete overhaul of basically the entire game to make it good?

The release was trash and the game released with as little product as possible while charging people full price.