To pre-order or not to pre-order. (the voices...they won)

[AllergicToBrainRot]

That is the question....

RAHHH

I couldn't help myself. I did the thing I said to myself that I wouldn't ever do again but the voices in my head kept getting louder and louder. I felt the walls closing in on me.
Losing my thoughts and concentration. All feelings, thoughts and emotions were gone. As I pulled out my cc with my hands shaking. Sweat covering me from head to toe. Looking behind me to make sure no one is watching me.


I did it.... I pre-ordered... the voices.. they finally stopped.. but for how long? How long until they come back to whisper into my ears to pre-order another game.

[Tenoshii]

Always pre-order so the company has enough money to print out all the disks and purchase cloud storage for download space.

[CawsMeCal]

Unless you're struggling with money so much that being without it for extended times you can always preorder to secure you get a bonus and then see if the game is good and runs on your system. If not you refund it. If you are struggling like that, you can't really afford to buy a new game on release anyways, unfortunately.

[Tomatokek]

why not? if you dont like it, just refund it on steam.

[wesnef]

Well, the pre-order bonuses aren't particularly compelling, so that's not a reason to do it.

If your internet is slow and you want to take advantage of pre-load, might be a reason (if you know you're going to want to play day 1).

[Dungeoncrawler69]

I'm worried my version of w11 insider edition will fail the drm. It was weeks before a update dropped to skull and bones drm that allowed me to play the game. Older titles aren't an issue, but newer games are starting to fail checks. To revert back to the retail version of w11 will require a hard install.

[J.M.]

Steam does have a return policy.

[Dungeoncrawler69]

Originally posted by J.M.:

Steam does have a return policy.

True but right now i cannot even run the character creator. I've d/led and installed it, but my library doesn't show it active nor can i uninstall it since it's not showing in any of the lists.

Update: Got the creator to finally run. Steam is acting wonky because it still doesn't show it being installed. I had to run it via the .exe in the game folder. BUT both my main and pawn have been created (yipee). Now to checkout the preorder bonuses.

[Humble]

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

wait for reviews/bugfest reports/performance verification ...

That's would be useful for someone who don't care about pre order bonus but on other hand, if someone care of pre order bonus, then this is hard vaild question, whatever pre order or not.

It's would help look at past and whatever enjoy game in the past by same company but it's not always help, like skyrim, people enjoy skyrim, but same company create starfield, people might think it's worth it to pre order, but that might not always case. It's hard to whatever pre order or not when one do not had power to see into future whatever game is good or bad, whatever it's worthy or not.

[Dungeoncrawler69]

As mentioned by someone else its really not an issue now that steam has refunds. See my update above.

[Humble]

Yes, I guess one could pre order, yet not play till they watch someone playing youtube and look at review before 14 day is up, if one don't like what they see in youtube or reviews, they could refund without playing game, Even so, there is computer issues that can run or not, if one try out free demo to see game run good or not, but demo is not always same thing as full version game. Only time tell.

I must remind that steam policy might not like refund too much in past like 6 month or something like that, but this is no issues if people are rarely pre order new game and refund if need to be and rarely refund at same time.

[AmnVoss]

Preordering made sense when you only had physical copies to ensure you did not have to wait for sometimes months to play. Since companies only do digital for PC now I say no. Plus almost every single AAA game released in the last four or five years has been a bug filled and/or unoptimized mess that is another reason not to.

[wasabi™]

At least on Steam you don't have necessarily much to lose when you pre-order since you can refund it at any time, even if you manage to pre-order a game years in advance you can safely refund it two weeks after release (provided you have under 2hrs of course).

In saying that it's really just up to you and personal preference. I Pre-order when I have the extra cash on hand to make it easy for myself so I can budget beforehand, but more importantly for the ability to preload it as soon as it becomes available.

Most games these days provide some form of preload system and being able to do that whenever it becomes available is a big help for people like me who don't have the best Internet speeds.

The Internet speeds in Australia can be pretty horrendous at the best of times and with this one releasing on the same day as Horizon Forbidden West it's going to take me a couple days to fully download both of them but like I said it's really each to their own, you should just go with whatever works best for you.

[Madao]

Originally posted by FEAR:

That is the question.

the answer is always NO, never pre-order anything mate. That being said, if you are a fan of the series or capcom and you know you will buy it anyway, that is the only reason it makes sense to do it.

[AmnVoss]

Originally posted by Madao:

Originally posted by FEAR:

That is the question.

the answer is always NO, never pre-order anything mate. That being said, if you are a fan of the series or capcom and you know you will buy it anyway, that is the only reason it makes sense to do it.

I still so wait until day one and I have purchased DD:DA for the 360, ps4 and pc and based on the leaked footage unless the game is a bug filled mess on PC I will buy it day one. I mainly refuse to preorder any more because 1. no physical copies so no need 2. to wait to see how the game launches and 3. this preorder incentive stuff is beyond out of hand (get a really bad skin or a weapon and/or armor that is only better than the one you start with and can not be upgraded so even the starter weapon can be better or you can play three days early so our investors see our launch was amazing).

I am not disagreeing with you just agreeing in a very long complainy way.

[crawlord]

post cyberpunk ill never preorder.To each their own as its your perogative.