Please Don't Preorder This...

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• Jaeger86@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t preorder anything ever

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “you can’t stop me!”

    Switch 2 day one purchasers

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I am constantly in awe of how many people want to watch this cringy dude ramble into a 1080p webcam mounted on the ceiling.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    He’s also in the crop of people who rage baited his audience with nonsense about Sweet Baby Inc.

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• AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  there isnt a limited stock; these are digital goods. there is no point in preordering.

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What about horse armor though? 🤣

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• capybara@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mutahar is a fucking moron.

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• Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t buy games in the first year they are released

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• MangoPenguin@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don't preorder what? The title is missing something lol

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it doesn’t really matter what, but the youtuber almost certainly did that to get clicks.

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• Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Malix@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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

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• ZeroHora@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

      “it’s the culture surrounding preorders that is most responsible for the trail of broken and unfinished games that clutter the sales charts” Kotaku 2015

      “By pre-ordering, you’re also saying that you’re ok with them cutting content, and that you don’t mind the bugs and problems of the launch copies.” Techraptor 2015

      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.

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  • regdog@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who’s this idiot?

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• B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unless its something physical the days of pre-orders are dead.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    but now you get special armors that are only relevant for 10 minutes of game time.

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    • B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I get to play 3 days early, bug test and pay you £80?/Oh boy… sign me up!

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• MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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

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