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Why are people dumb enough to preorder when unsure about it?

Cassidy

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I really don't understand such kind of behavior. Besides the likelihood of the first release version of a game being a bug-ridden nightmare even if it is otherwise enjoyable, are SPECIAL BONUS FOR PREORDERS that much of a big deal for you to gamble your money on whether that game random person in the Internet or "gaming journalists" claimed to be good will be fun for you without playing at least a demo first? Nowadays everything is like a box of potentially undesirable surprises and there is far less good games than ten years ago, coupled with the fact there is no truly reliable media to trust on whether a game is good or not, and yet a few people, right here, in the Codex, are sheeple enough to fall for the bait and hype and preorder a game without trying it first through a demo.

This kind of concept would be totally off-place in sectors that deal with more tangible products. For example, isn't preposterous the idea of preordering a flavor of pizza that isn't even available on a menu yet? Or a car?

Sheeple consumerism at its finest.
 

Bruticis

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Patience, I have none of it. If there's a game coming out that I want to play, I want to play it as soon as I can. I don't give a shit about extra crap and I'll get it from whatever source has it cheapest but I can not will myself into waiting for some magical period of time when it becomes acceptable to buy it.
 

Gord

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Don't understand it either.
Sure, you get some bonus (i.e. usually some kind of cheat-imba-items) and a small price drop, but compared to the risk of buying some shit it doesn't seem worth it.
 

sgc_meltdown

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new things are shiny and my status in the pack will rise with this acquisition
 

Orgasm

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They dont perceive the act properly. Just like most morons on the forums including OP cant judge a game properly.

To them, spending money on a game, preorder or not, is not buying an objectively good product but a gamble in a casino, or taking a ride in a amusement park. You didnt like it? Oh well, other people did, its all subjective anyway, right!

To me, spending any amount of money on something which turns out to be shit is a sign of failure on my part to gauge the quality of the object and an insult, a spit in the fucking face on the sellers part. Its like ordering a burger at burger king and getting a sandwich with shit smeared all over it, eating it!, and not getting any money returned. Hell, they even laugh at me!

I honestly, personally, coldblooded'ly gas every fucker who bought Oblivion or liked it. The gaming world would be far better to me then.
 

Phelot

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I normally download the demo or the "demo" of a game before buying it. Seriously, no excuse not to have a demo for your game especially in this age where you can download anything at lightning speed. It was near impossible to download a 10mb demo on dial-up, but a 2gb demo via a torrent or something isn't a big deal at all. No excuse.

Anyway, as for OP. I think the only game I pre-ordered was Amnesia and only because it genuinely seemed to help out the devs which I like and also because it was only $10 (which was cheaper than when it was released) If it was $50? Don't think so.

I've never had any interest in statues or dictionary size manuals. If you want to put some goodies in your game box, I do appreciate it, but I ain't gonna spend extra on that. Just not my thing.
 

Metro

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It's a herd mentality/status thing. Pre-ordering is just the 'thing to do.'
 

oscar

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Even quite a few people on the 'Dex seem to do it.
 
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Admiral jimbob said:
I don't even buy games new at all now, pretty much everything is £10 within a year of release. Buying before that is just terminally stupid.

Yeah, this. Wait 6 months more and you get all the DLC included for free as well. Seems stupid to buy a game when you know the full version is going to be released a year later and will cost 1/10th of what the original game + all DLC individually would be. Not that I'm against buying a game at full retail price, but it has to obviously be really good from demos/"demos"/recommendations from people who aren't getting paid to suck cock.

The problem probably comes mostly from the teenaged crowd who don't care about cash so long as daddy is paying, and then the 20+ crowd who still haven't figured out how to manage their finances and hold off on their silly impulses.
 

Metro

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Waiting for sales is basically how I pace myself, not really a matter of whether I can afford something or not. I already have about a dozen unplayed games on my 'to do list.'
 

Ruprekt

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If it turns out to be shit just return the thing? And as has been said preorders do help small developers and sometimes confer a discount.

Preordering something via steam though seems a strange behavior. You can't return (or cancel your order even I think in some cases?) and steam discounting is poor vs hard copy retailers.
 

sgc_meltdown

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yeah, I have the feeling that a large portion of preorders come from people who play a very narrow subset of games and therefore can't wait for new releases of their stuff as they've played 800 hours of call of duty black ops ordy cant w8 4 MW3 AWWWWW YEHHHH
 

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I'll preorder a game if I'm really interested in it or have a lot of faith in the dev (I pre-ordered Sengoku, and will probably do the same for Magna Mundi and CK2), but beyond that, unless I'm planning on getting it at release anyway, I don't. Really, nowadays, I only trust Paradox.
 

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Orgasm said:
I honestly, personally, coldblooded'ly gas every fucker who bought Oblivion or liked it. The gaming world would be far better to me then.

You may be taking your gaming too seriously, just sayin'
 

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