Don't preorder anything ever
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there isnt a limited stock; these are digital goods. there is no point in preordering.
What about horse armor though? 🤣
I am constantly in awe of how many people want to watch this cringy dude ramble into a 1080p webcam mounted on the ceiling.
He's also in the crop of people who rage baited his audience with nonsense about Sweet Baby Inc.
Don’t buy games in the first year they are released
Don't preorder what? The title is missing something lol
the principle applies to literally all games anyway, but the youtuber almost certainly did that to get clicks.
Pre orders and games as a service are scams from corporations that don’t give a shit about games besides how much money they can make releasing unfinished garbage.
Unless its something physical the days of pre-orders are dead.
but now you get special armor that's relevant for a whole 10 minutes of game time.
I get to play 3 days early, bug test and pay you £80? Oh boy.... sign me up!
Controversial opinion:
Pre-ordering or not make no difference.
You can search for it, in 2014 they have reports of a declining in pre-orders industry wide, they don't give numbers of pre-orders but even if you look at the ranking of sold games in online platforms people buy more days after the release than before or in day of the release.
The boycott of pre-order kinda of worked, more people avoid pre-ordering than before and did that make any difference in the quality of game release? Hell no, they still release game with bugs, not finished with need of day one patches, the entire boycott made 0 impact on this shit.
i think you are misunderstanding the point of the no preorder movement. There never should have been an expectation for it to improve the Day 1 quality of game releases.
The main benefit of not preordering is consumer protection, so we can judge a game's quality after people who we trust have played and review it. That protection is worth more than whatever paltry nonsense publishers bundle with preorders.
i think you are misunderstanding the point of the no preorder movement. There never should have been an expectation for it to improve the Day 1 quality of game releases.
And many other articles or reddit discussions about the topic. That's what game journalist told the gamers and what many believe. The consumer protection was always the part that made sense, but they tried to push this idea of we could fix the broken release culture by not pre-ordering.
The difference is that if you don't preorder a shitty game you won't hate yourself afterwards.
This effect is hard to quantify in numbers, but it is very much real.
You can't convince gamers not to pre-order. I'd bet the guy in this very video will pre-order it. I have not ever witnessed a hobby community that gets so uppity about pricing yet continues to pay. Maybe Warhammer fans can compete but I feel like they are well into the acceptance phase of buying into predatory business practice.
In defence of Warhammer-fans, at least with physical products scarcity can be a thing, and as physical goods they do have resale value.
But yea, plastic crack is expesive. Wish I had a space to use a 3d printer. :P
Honestly i was looking at Dune awakening today, but just before i pressed purchase I remembdered the last game i pre-ordered and how dissapointed i was once it came out and none of the features promised were present.
Not saying the Dune devs would do that but its just not worth it anymore
Mutahar is a fucking moron.
Who's this idiot and why does anything he say matter?