Pre-ordering helps fund games. Also TB is an overly cynical starfish. He just goes with a "screw the system" attitude and because he has an accent, people eat it up. Of course don't pre-order a game you don't expect will be good, and of course there are incentives for pre-ordering digital downloads, the developer wants more money to work with, so they try to persuade you to pre-order the game with a discount or bonus.
Not really, pre-orders are mostly available when the game is almost ready for release or even when they are ready for release.
If they really funded the game with something like that, it would be a kickstarted game.
These games actually get funded with pre-order like things.
However in this case you actually fund the game.
Real pre-orders are just early sales.
Sales before the game even came out.
Chances are that some people wouldn't have gotten the game if they had seen a review of it, but they already preordered it, because the game looked cool or something.
The biggest example and the main reason for the time of TB's video is of course, Aliens: Colonial Marines.
I have played AVP and i quite liked it, though it had some bugs and other stuff that just didn't make it a game which i really liked.
The concept behind it, the whole idea of being a marine fending off aliens who try to kill you in that style was really something i liked.
When i heard about Aliens: Colonial Marines and heard it was from Gearbox (the guys behind a game which is pretty solid IMO: Borderlands), i was really excited.
Not only was it an Aliens game, but it was from Gearbox!
I expected good things!
I nearly pre-ordered it if it wasn't for a friend of mine to tell me to wait.
That and the price was a bit steep, so i just waited until after the release, maybe it would go on sale next Steam sale or something.
But when i heard so many bad things about that game...
I really knew i escaped blowing like what,50 to 60 bucks away to something i wouldn't like after all!
I already have had bad experiences with pre-orders.
I pre-ordered Saints Row the Third.
From what i had seen and heard it was going to be amazing.
But afterwards, it wasn't really how i expected it to be.
If i had seen reviews of it, i would've avoided it, 100% sure.
So yeah, pre-orders are quite bad.
But if they really would fund the game, it would be good.
But now they are just.. Pre-sales.
Now if Age of Wonders 3 is going to be a pre-order type game, i am certainly going to pre-order it.
That is because i am a fan boy of the genre and i expect good things.
However, some rumors i have heard were not really appealing.
However, the concept of the game, a fantasy strategy game with heroes to level up and spells and stuff, really appeals me.
I expect good things, but who knows.
I might be very disappointed afterwards.
That is the risk with pre-orders.
The game might end up sucking and they do not fund the game mostly.
It is just being used as a way to sell the game before it is out.
And in the case of Aliens: Colonial Marines, they really seemed to have tricked people into pre-ordering the game, since what they showed beforehand, didn't match the game after it's release at all.
Some say the demo was even something completely different, like it was developed aside of the game, just to make sure that people would love it.
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