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CaptainBasculin, 3 godziny temu (edited 3 godziny temu) do games w Do you preorder games?

I always wait for release, even if I’m planning it to be a release day buy. Early Access could be an exception if the product they offer is good even in that stage, like how I got Rhythm Doctor when they finished Act 4. (The game has recently came out of Early Access and it’s really good). A demo could incentivise me to preorder, a game I could give example for that is Diesel Knights. While it’s not available for pre-order yet, I would absolutely do so if it did. But nothing released : no preorder

Strictly against it in AAA titles, anything above 60 is a never buy in the first place for me but a putting a preorder for a game in that price range is something that is straight up NOT happening under any circumstance.

IEatDaFeesh, 3 godziny temu do games w Do you preorder games?

I stopped after Cyberpunk.

echodot, 3 godziny temu

I stopped after No Man’s Sky.

msokiovt, 2 godziny temu do games w Do you preorder games?

This I don’t do. If anything, I’d rather have all the content in one purchase, DLC included, before doing so.

mohab, 2 godziny temu do games w Do you preorder games?

I don’t even order games 😂 Deep sale or no buy.

Brewchin, godzinę temu do games w Do you preorder games?

I never pre-order nor pay for early access. Examples are plenty, but a couple that spring to mind are New World and Ashes of Creation. (Even excluding the infinite early access of PUBG, and whatever the hell Star Citizen is).

For the former, their “beta test” was “yeah, it runs: ship it” and ZERO feedback was noted or actioned. The release day was The Single Worst game release I’ve ever seen, and 4 years later when Amazon decided to kill it, ALL of the beta bugs were still there. To be fair, it was a “pay once” game. With MTX, of course.

For the latter, people started by paying $300+ for “alpha access” and more recently $100 for the same thing. And it’s clearly 2-4 years away from being remotely ready for release. Those people are paying to do QA. And it will be pay-per-month on release, as if it was 2010.

If your FOMO overrides your other faculties, and you’re willing to put up with all of that, then fine. You do you. 👍🏻

Every pre-order bonus I’ve seen is a skin, title or other tat that doesn’t have any value beyond signalling that you pre-ordered the game.

Me? I’m done playing these financial games with video games. Until a game is released/GA, it’s vapourware and non-existent. But again: you do you.

TheGreenWizard, 59 minut temu do games w Do you preorder games?

I try not to pre-order or get early access. However I am not perfect, I did pre order Dragon Quest 11 when it came out.

EncryptKeeper, 44 minuty temu do games w Do you preorder games?

I often preorder games that I know are sure bets. I won’t preorder games that I’m not sure I’ll like or by a developer with a rocky reputation (Ubisoft, etc).

I love buying early access games. Many of the best games ever made spent a lengthy time in early access, and it was worth every penny. Some I’ve bought 2-3 times in early access on different platforms just to support the developers (Satisfactory, Factorio, Rimworld, Baldurs Gate 3). I just bought Satisfactory for the third time and it was worth it.