Preordering a cool indie game by backing it on a crowdfunding site where the creators get paid well and they put your name in the credits or something.
I love buying a console once it’s old. I bought the ps4 way after the ps5 released. Cheap games, i know which are flops, no spoilers for me, and usually i get the best releases dirt cheap.
Same thing for phones.
Only ever pre-ordered 2 games. One of the 3ds Pokemons, and Skyrim. Skyrim was ordered at my college campus’s GameStop. Went to pick it up, and they asked me for my ID to verify my age. Funny enough they didn’t need my id to refund me. So I took my money to best buy and got some extra free swag.
GTA 6 is something like 200Gb, pre-ordering it means you can pre download the game and install it before the lock is lifted on the release date. That’s the only reason to pre-order a game nowadays.
Oh no, you have to wait a whole extra day to play a video game…
If that is a reason for you, you’re a moron
Why the name calling? People like you are turning Lemmy into Reddit
Better hope they don’t come out with a day 1 patch and push the update with the base game.
pirating a 17 years old game?
Pirating a game that releases next week
Pre-ordering games used to be cool.
You’d show up to the game store for the midnight release, pick up your copy, then head back to your buddy’s place and play until 9pm.
You’d get a physical copy of your game and some cool shit too.
No install times either.
Just plug and play.
It was the style of the time.
Nowadays you get a code in a box (at best) and some cheap trash.
I haven’t pre-ordered a game since before 2012.
In the case of GTA6, you don’t even get the cheap trash. The paper map you used to get as a bonus in the box is missing, and you need to buy it separately
Pre-ordering a game? Is this a beta-release?
I don’t really understand preordering digital products. They’re not going to run out of stock. At least with physical games, you can get limited edition physical goodies with it.
I’m probably going to pre-order GTA 6 sometime this week because preloading is already available and I don’t want to be trying to download the same 200gb game at the same time as hundreds of millions of other people. I’m sure the servers can handle it, but I’d still feel better just downloading earlier. I’d like to be completely sure that I’ll be ready to start playing after work on Thursday, and I’ll feel more confident in that if I already have it downloaded in advance.
I think it’s just simply impatience
What’s the next level of this so I can repost it about pre-ordering an early access game like what just happen with ArchAge Chronicles. Posts full of people proudly announcing their prepurchase and defending it only for it to be a probable review-botted quick cash scam.
You guys buy games?
I can’t wait to play GTA 6 in 2028, assuming we haven’t blown up the planet yet.
I cant wait to play the decomp on November 21st (mostly joking)
Fit girl reading this comment
Just think of how good the mods will be by then, if we’re still around!
Buying indie games day 1 hits different tho.
especially after playing the demo
me buying Deltarune on day one without a single bit of hesitation :D
Even managed to get it to crash somehow XD (and because of the game’s 4th-wall-breaking nature, it took me a minute to realise that this is, in fact, not intentional)
Submitted a bug report, it worked flawlessly when I continued playing a day later. I want to believe that the bug report helped somehow
My favourite is discovering that developer also added my language.
Goddamn Ubisoft has two offices in the country and “there isn’t enough market demand” for them, and years earlier they would also do asshole shit like region locking game copies to only have Russian and Chinese languages.
And yet some studio of 5 folks thousands of kilometers from here just cares.
What dev/game?
Songs of Conquest by Lavapotion is an example. Funniest part - it’s a “Heroes-like”, like franchise Ubisoft killed at some point. 🌝
crysis
I envy the people who played Undertale when it released! I’m just glad to be playing Deltarune before it’s complete.
Why is that?
It was different in the old days. Midnight release parties at the game store, rush home, put in the game, immediately start playing.
Nowadays they can’t even ship a functional game day one half the damn time.
And that’s assuming it even “ships”, in a physical sense.
and then you put the disc in and for some reason it still takes hours to download something
That download is the game
You often times get effectively a code on a disc. Other times it’s just like a fraction of the game’s code so that early copies that leak can’t be played before launch (something that for a very brief moment in time was happening a lot)
i pre-ordered witcher 3, cyberpunk 2077, and crimson desert. i enjoyed/am still enjoying all three, but the practice of pre-ordering really is devilish. the witcher 3 version was even on a ps4 which i don’t own anymore, so i had to rebuy the game on steam years later for like 15€ with dlc. i don’t really regret pre-ordering, not even cyberpunk. i liked it at launch, and like it even more now. the quests, side quests, and world building are decent to excellent, and those were for the most part already there at launch. it was just very buggy, and some things just didn’t work.
