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.

[–] messem10@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Danatronic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

/c/patientgamers

[–] MusketeerX@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

misread instructions, preordered all the games for those sick skins

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[–] Kgarath@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

In what way did they do a "complete overhaul"? I played on PC when it came out and had fewer issues than plenty of other AAA releases in the last few years.

Are you upset about bugs or not getting what you expected?

If it's bugs then I'll assume either that you played it on hardware that it shouldn't have been released on, or you scream about nearly every game you play.

If it was not getting what you expected I'd suggest you disconnect from hype trains. We older gamers learned that lesson long ago when commercials only showed fmv sequences and actual game play was well below.

If I had it to do over again I'd buy CP2077 over Fallout 4 without a second thought, but no one is still whining at Bethesda over that.

[–] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly every game I pre ordered I have been happy with especially bg3.

[–] quatschkopf34@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait, Alan Wake 2 is finally coming? Didn‘t know it was actually still being developed.

[–] Kittenstix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

After Control's success it shouldn't be too surprising, im looking forward to it but probably won't play until a year or two after release, im still playing control and Quantum Break is on my to-play list.

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