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5 Reminders NOT to Pre-Order Games This Year ~ We used to demand trials before buying before, what happened? ~ Stop Pre ordering Games (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by Frostwolf@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Honestly, if the idea of no trials don’t bother you, there are plenty more reminders why YOU shouldn’t preorder.

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[-] popemichael@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I stopped preordering unless it's a project that I 100% believe in.

Usually it's titles from studios that never miss like Supergiant Games or small dev team projects with a solid demo.

[-] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

CD Project RED used to be one of those studios that never miss, but then Cyberpunk happened. So it's never a true guarantee.

[-] LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

People seem to forget that a good track record is never a guarantee that future games will be good. A company name also isn’t a guarantee either. Since studios are essentially a revolving door of talent.

Companies are ran by people and people can make mistakes or whatever that leads to a botched game. Not to mention the fact that the talent in game studios come and go so the people that made game A so great might not necessarily be the same team that works on game B which makes things more uncertain.

Bioware is another solid example. They had a really good track record for years until they dropped ME:A. Largely (afaik) because a lot of the talent behind their best games had moved on, leaving a new set of talent to work on ME:A and future games.

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[-] 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 😛

[-] Andonyx@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You don't say? 🤔

Sega makes New Game Plus a premium edition exclusive

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

/c/patientgamers

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I made a flow chart for this ages ago...

Will it be legitimately hard to find? (Think Steel Battalion on Xbox.) No? Do not pre-order.

Do you get anything for pre-ordering? No? Do not pre-order.

Cosmetics only? Yes? Do not pre-order.

Is it from a developer with an established track record? No? Do not pre-order.

Is that established track record full of buggy launches (Bethesda)? Yes? Do not pre-order.

Online only? Yes? Do not pre-order.

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[-] talkingcat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My local currency is devaluating by the second, the price I see today may not be the price tomorrow.

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[-] Kgarath@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] majere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've been hearing this since 2010. Nothing is going to change.

EA Sports 2024 is going to come out, it's going to have 40,000 mixed reviews.

[-] oryx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the whole no pre-ordering thing is simply just a personal moral thing. Any amount of people who pledge not to are massively outnumbered by the vast majority of gamers who simply do not care. This simply doesn't matter anymore.

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[-] missingno@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don't often preorder, but when I do it's because I know I won't regret my purchase, and I know I want a physical copy to arrive on day 1. Of course I know there's some risk, but if I felt a game really was that risky then I would wait, I just buy the ones I feel are safe bets.

I know what developers and series I like, and if one of my favorite games is getting a sequel I know I'm playing it. Even if the sequel isn't quite as good as the prior game I liked, they're never bad enough for me to not want to play them at all.

I suppose it helps that my tastes lie far enough outside the kinds of mainstream AAA games that are prone to totally botched launches that I've never been truly burned.

[-] Hazzul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Downvote edit: Maybe you didn’t like that reality with people living through high inflation but it is what it is around here. It becomes still more expensive than a preorder even with a discount after a few months.

If I could spare the cash at the moment, I’d preorder Spidey 2. I’ll preorder Marvel’s Wolverine when it opens as well. I don’t trust EA games to deliver but I’m positively biased towards Insomniac & Naughty Dog, for example. They never disappointed me.

One solid reason for preordering them in my country is the fact that prices go up at least 1.5 to 2x when they release. So if I care about the game, I do so to lock in a much cheaper price. Yeah, inflation and third world problems. So there’s that.

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