PREORDER Yes or No

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Pro and Cons?

[๖ۣۜF๖ۣۜI๖ۣۜR๖ۣۜE]

Originally posted by harisenvin:

a big fat NO. it doesn't even have system requirements on the steam page

yes that is true but hey we know the Price for the Game

[cucamonster]

Why would you pay money for a product you can't enjoy yet?
Wait for reviews, ask friends to share their gameplay and keep an eye on the forums.
Why the rush to spend money with zero return for now?

[Always Feral]

Originally posted by ๖ۣۜF๖ۣۜI๖ۣۜR๖ۣۜE:

Pro and Cons?

Pros: You get to blindly spend money with no assurance or guarantee that the game will actually be good or even completely functional upon release.

Cons: If the game is bad and you miss your refund window, you're just stuck with it because you didn't wait around for reviews to see if the title is worth purchasing.

There are no "Pros" to pre-ordering in 2024. Unless it's to secure a copy of physical media of some kind, it's pointless. They're not gonna sell out of digital copies of anything.

[Tyvolus]

Originally posted by ๖ۣۜF๖ۣۜI๖ۣۜR๖ۣۜE:

Pro and Cons?

I wont be pre ordering. But i never pre-order.

[Otrain56]

Just pre-order the day before it comes out simple.
There is a event coming up on the 20th or 21st, would def watch that before even considering.

[Kaschperle]

Originally posted by Eidrog:

Pro: There's perks that come with the pre-order, and if you don't like it before 2 hours are up, you can get a refund.

this is always the best take I have slow ass internet and I preorderd it for the sake of pre loading it and worste case refund time

[The_Dipl0mat]

Originally posted by Otrain56:

Just pre-order the day before it comes out simple.
There is a event coming up on the 20th or 21st, would def watch that before even considering.

I think that event is going to determine if I preorder or not, as I've been tossin it around my head on why I should or shouldn't do it, myself

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by Bargrith:

I am convinced that preordering is destroying games and gaming, it allows companies to release unfinished unpolished games that lack content and make there money before you even play it. then if your lucky they release patch after patch slowly bring it up to where it should have been in the first place and then they sell you everything they can as an expansion. Remember when a game got released and it was a big well done play tested game with very few bugs, and expansions were like whole new games that added to the first. I believe pre ordering is what allowed gaming companies to move to the sorry state of affairs we have now so.

Pro: you own a game you can buy after its release for the same price, its digital so its not like they will run out of copies.

Con: 1: you don't know if its any good
2: you may actually be enabling them to release an unfinished game (just look at what happened with DOW 3)

How does that ruin gaming? If they're releasing an unfinished game, the pre-orders still play it (usually) on day 1 along with everyone else. I don't think we can blame pre-orders any more than we can blame buying on release.

That said, I never preorder. It's better to be patient and wait for early reviews, updates, or even discount.

[Kaschperle]

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Originally posted by Bargrith:

I am convinced that preordering is destroying games and gaming, it allows companies to release unfinished unpolished games that lack content and make there money before you even play it. then if your lucky they release patch after patch slowly bring it up to where it should have been in the first place and then they sell you everything they can as an expansion. Remember when a game got released and it was a big well done play tested game with very few bugs, and expansions were like whole new games that added to the first. I believe pre ordering is what allowed gaming companies to move to the sorry state of affairs we have now so.

Pro: you own a game you can buy after its release for the same price, its digital so its not like they will run out of copies.

Con: 1: you don't know if its any good
2: you may actually be enabling them to release an unfinished game (just look at what happened with DOW 3)

How does that ruin gaming? If they're releasing an unfinished game, the pre-orders still play it (usually) on day 1 along with everyone else. I don't think we can blame pre-orders any more than we can blame buying on release.

That said, I never preorder. It's better to be patient and wait for early reviews, updates, or even discount.

I might be wrong but pretty sure preordering in the earlier days also gave you a fully working game. It's just nowadays the scope of games is to big and instead filled with passion it is filled with money givers who wants their share therefore rushing release.

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by E-Girl with no job:

Originally posted by RasaNova:

How does that ruin gaming? If they're releasing an unfinished game, the pre-orders still play it (usually) on day 1 along with everyone else. I don't think we can blame pre-orders any more than we can blame buying on release.

That said, I never preorder. It's better to be patient and wait for early reviews, updates, or even discount.

I might be wrong but pretty sure preordering in the earlier days also gave you a fully working game. It's just nowadays the scope of games is to big and instead filled with passion it is filled with money givers who wants their share therefore rushing release.

Pre-orders have been a think for 40+ years. Back in the days of physical media, pre-order made sense because it put you at the front of the line to get a limited number of copies.

These days, except for a very small number of exceptions, the game doesn't unlock til the release date so pre-orders start playing at the same time as day 1 buyers.

[Kaschperle]

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Originally posted by E-Girl with no job:

I might be wrong but pretty sure preordering in the earlier days also gave you a fully working game. It's just nowadays the scope of games is to big and instead filled with passion it is filled with money givers who wants their share therefore rushing release.

Pre-orders have been a think for 40+ years. Back in the days of physical media, pre-order made sense because it put you at the front of the line to get a limited number of copies.

These days, except for a very small number of exceptions, the game doesn't unlock til the release date so pre-orders start playing at the same time as day 1 buyers.

well I'd say preorder is more of a preload (at least for people with piss poor internet) that's my reasoning of preordering. tbh

[HAPPY]

no...
why would you pre-order anything... you think that games on steam can be sold out or something?

[The_Dipl0mat]

Originally posted by E-Girl with no job:

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Pre-orders have been a think for 40+ years. Back in the days of physical media, pre-order made sense because it put you at the front of the line to get a limited number of copies.

These days, except for a very small number of exceptions, the game doesn't unlock til the release date so pre-orders start playing at the same time as day 1 buyers.

well I'd say preorder is more of a preload (at least for people with piss poor internet) that's my reasoning of preordering. tbh

I think it also can boil down to "Can I afford this currently, and do I know that I'll buy this in the future"
In which case you have to decide if it's worth the launch risk to get extra goodies you'd miss out on. I'm leaning towards a preorder myself, and I'll just wait for the gameplay on the 20th to make my choice

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by The_Dipl0mat:

I'm leaning towards a preorder myself, and I'll just wait for the gameplay on the 20th to make my choice

Where I'm at.

[pixel.was.taken.so.i.used.this]

Never buy something you don't know the quality of. Preordering has rarely ended well in recent memory. Most notably being games like SSKtJL. Moreover, GW is doing some really weird things with the brand behind the scenes, and I wouldn't be surprised if GW is heavily involved with this game too.

I am no expert, but I do recall a poor writer was heavily involved with this game's narrative. For reference, look at Gotham Knights' story, and you'll see the quality I'm referring too. She was a lead writer for that. She also has ties to SBI, which are known for drastically harming games during development and release. The first space marine game was nothing super special either, but it was still enjoyable and memorable in the classic warhammer style and story. It should also be noted that GW is currently employing poor writers to write their novels too. Which would support the theory that they care less about narratives and an agenda in some form or another.

All in all, don't preorder the game. Wait for it to come out, and see if it has chops. If you just have to have that space marine experience, go play the first one again and relive the fun that game has proven it can give.