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Greedy Publishers Have Won And Normalized Paying To Play Early (kotaku.com)

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've been buying the base-game ON launch day for a several years now for any games I've wanted to play ASAP.

Obviously if pre-ordering comes with pre-loading the game, that can be advantageous for some players, but with gigabit fibre I downloaded Forbidden West on PC in half an hour. And even with pre-loading, you could be buying a day or two in advance, not a year like I've seen some friends do.

Buying as late as possible, and hovering you finger over the refund option for the first two hours, you don't really miss out on anything. I don't think pre-order bonuses and such have ever been anything worthwhile. And any future content is something you can spend on when it comes out, IF you're still down to play more of the game.

It's kinda sickening how common it's become for special editions to just be pre-orders for content that doesn't exist yet, and 50% of the time it gets produced with 25% of the effort of the base game.