What's The Point Of Preording KCD?

[Boromir]

I've searched around and can't see the benefit to preordering this game? Am I allowed to play the game two weeks before release or something to that effect, justifying the preorder?

[smoketrees]

Why don't you read the store page?

Pre order bonus is some armour and a quest to get said armour.

You could also get the more expensive edition which gives some other stuff qs well as buying the future DLC up front. Presumably for small saving vs buying the DLC on release.

[Boromir]

Originally posted by smoketrees:

Why don't you read the store page?

Pre order bonus is some armour and a quest to get said armour.

You could also get the more expensive edition which gives some other stuff qs well as buying the future DLC up front. Presumably for small saving vs buying the DLC on release.

I read and saw that part, but it appeared too underwhelming to justify a preorder. Is that truly all that you receive for preordering the game? Is there truly no early game access, allowing you to be privy to the game prior to the official release?

[✟Alistair✟]

Originally posted by smoketrees:

Why don't you read the store page?

Pre order bonus is some armour and a quest to get said armour.

You could also get the more expensive edition which gives some other stuff qs well as buying the future DLC up front. Presumably for small saving vs buying the DLC on release.

"Why don't you read the store page?"
No wonder you're so passive aggressive Smoketrees, I'd be defensive too if the only reward I acquired for preordering a game were digital cosmetics, that'll likely be released a few months after release, like how the Warhorse armour was for the first game!

[smoketrees]

Originally posted by ✟Alistair✟:

Originally posted by smoketrees:

Why don't you read the store page?

Pre order bonus is some armour and a quest to get said armour.

You could also get the more expensive edition which gives some other stuff qs well as buying the future DLC up front. Presumably for small saving vs buying the DLC on release.

"Why don't you read the store page?"
No wonder you're so passive aggressive Smoketrees, I'd be defensive too if the only reward I acquired for preordering a game were digital cosmetics, that'll likely be released a few months after release, like how the Warhorse armour was for the first game!

I don't really like any pre order rewards, unless it's a physical thing.

[zpc]

I see no point ATM - as there is no preorder offer on GOG.

[okda]

it's a scam when you are forced to buy a pre-order to get full content in the game. they have fallen in my eyes. it is dirty low and disgusting. not to mention that they do not have testers instead of which they use the gaming community

[Lutty]

Because its a Masterpiece thats why GOTY

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Early access for money is not a thing you should want as gamer. Especially not in multiplayer games, which KCD isn't, I know. Paid early access is a plague that needs to be purged

[LeftPaw]

I wants it all. The games that I really love you could count on five fingers, this is one of those fingers. I am getting the gold diamond platinum version for Christmas Pre-order.

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by Lutty:

Because its a Masterpiece thats why GOTY

And then some. There is no game quite like it.

[MATEJZAO]

Originally posted by okda:

it's a scam when you are forced to buy a pre-order to get full content in the game. they have fallen in my eyes. it is dirty low and disgusting. not to mention that they do not have testers instead of which they use the gaming community

Did anyone hurt you, why are you so sour? It was said above you that the bonus DLC will be available later on. If they used gaming community as testers, then I would be a tester. I tested their DLCs but now I was not invited.

[MATEJZAO]

I think it will be a little bit cheaper in a bundle, if you ever decide to buy Base game and then DLCs separately. Besides obvious bonus DLC.

[EricHVela]

Pre-order is not something understood by those who don't pre-order.

I used to do it as a nod to developers with early $$$ for them. After too many disappointments from developers who I once trusted, there's no chance I'll preorder. When a privilege gets abused, everyone loses the privilege. My good will is spent. I'm not into cosmetics. Early access is for testers imho. Now, it's a "proof-before-purchase" no matter how good a game looks or how a developer has performed in the past.

(Several highly anticipated, recent games that I didn't pre-order seems to be not worth the $$$ they are asking. So, I still don't have those game. Refusing to pre-order saved me some $$$. If I get early access, it's for an application that's in development, not jumpstart access. I know what I'm getting into as I'll do a lot of digging into the current state of the game and the developer's history. There's a developer with 2 early access games out and a statement that the 2nd game which seems more popular was to provide funding for the first that hasn't seen an update in a good while. That's a Nope! for me. When are they going to abandon that 2nd popular game for a 3rd early access just to fund the 2nd one's development?)

I understand why people pre-order, and I'll let them. It's my choice to no longer do that.

[okda]

Originally posted by EricHVela:

Pre-order is not something understood by those who don't pre-order.

I used to do it as a nod to developers with early $$$ for them. After too many disappointments from developers who I once trusted, there's no chance I'll preorder. When a privilege gets abused, everyone loses the privilege. My good will is spent. I'm not into cosmetics. Early access is for testers imho. Now, it's a "proof-before-purchase" no matter how good a game looks or how a developer has performed in the past.

(Several highly anticipated, recent games that I didn't pre-order seems to be not worth the $$$ they are asking. So, I still don't have those game. Refusing to pre-order saved me some $$$. If I get early access, it's for an application that's in development, not jumpstart access. I know what I'm getting into as I'll do a lot of digging into the current state of the game and the developer's history. There's a developer with 2 early access games out and a statement that the 2nd game which seems more popular was to provide funding for the first that hasn't seen an update in a good while. That's a Nope! for me. When are they going to abandon that 2nd popular game for a 3rd early access just to fund the 2nd one's development?)

I understand why people pre-order, and I'll let them. It's my choice to no longer do that.

bro modern developers save money on the number of employees and underpay them, today they don't even develop their own engine but take ready-made or even completely free LOL without even using all the capabilities of these engines. I don't see any point in supporting lazy and greedy capitalist marketing companies with money

[okda]

it's the same as if you went to a car dealership and bought a car that hasn't even hit the market yet. What's the point of this?