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Pre-Ordering Games, or: How The Bad Practices of the Gaming Industry Are Winning
MackTheHunter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5Uj4XIT1Y
Not only this video, but your opinion on pre-ordering games.
In my humble, honest opinion: I couldn't agree more with what TB says in the video. I have only pre-ordered one game (Counter Strike: Global Offensive) and I had decent justification to do so because I know Valve would never forget me over. Even in that case, the game is good but still has a lot of flaws. Nevertheless I would never, and have never ended up pre-ordering games because I want extra content, even CS:GO never offered that - I simply pre-ordered it because I didn't want to have to remember to go and buy it, and just have it download the minute it was released (also to avoid long download times due to heavy traffic).
But, in this thread, I will allow and request your opinions on the matter of what I believe, and many others believe, is what is slowly murdering the gaming industry.
I'll add a poll. Try to keep this to a mature and reasonable debate.
uno_da_cat:
Poll doesn't work for me. I've preordered games but I don't support the extra content bullstuff.
Extrude:
Poll is horribly biased.
DestroyerOfBlocks:
why anyone would buy something without knowing it will be good or bad is beyond me
it's like going to a restaurant and ordering the mystery meat
Awdax:
--- Quote from: uno_da_cat on February 20, 2013, 01:51:52 PM ---Poll doesn't work for me. I've preordered games but I don't support the extra content bullstuff.
--- End quote ---
Me too.
I despise it when the developers create content for the game, but the only way to get it all is to buy it from multiple stores. Even then it's not worth it.
I've pre-ordered GTA V from the Rockstar Warehouse, partly because that's my favorite franchise and I just love the stories they tell. I'm not getting any special content from doing that, whatsoever. Come around September, it will be shipped for arrival on the 17th. There's also the chance that when they ship it anticipating the release date, I could get it a day or so early.