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Do you preorder games? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by W3dd1e@lemmy.zip to c/games@lemmy.world
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  • What about Early Access Games?
  • Do you feel differently about Early Access vs traditional preordering?
  • If you are open to the idea in specific circumstances, what are those?
  • How do you decide if a game qualifies?

I’m interested in the community thoughts on preordering and I’d love to have a thoughtful discussion on the matter.

Personally, I’m against preordering, except in specific situations where I want to actively support the development of a game.

I have been thinking about this because there is a game I’m considering preordering from a medium sized studio, but the reason I want to preorder is for the IP, rather than the game and it goes against my typical stance on this. The game is based on my favorite book series and part of me wants to encourage more games be made based on this series. At the same time, the book series has found commercial success and as a whole does not need my help.

I did name the specifics here because I’m hoping to encourage discussion on preordering as a whole, rather than my example, but if you want to know, I’ll drop a comment and we can have a discussion in the comment thread. :)

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[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I never pre-order nor pay for early access. Examples are plenty, but a couple that spring to mind are New World and Ashes of Creation. (Even excluding the infinite early access of PUBG, and whatever the hell Star Citizen is).

For the former, their "beta test" was "yeah, it runs: ship it" and ZERO feedback was noted or actioned. The release day was The Single Worst game release I've ever seen, and 4 years later when Amazon decided to kill it, ALL of the beta bugs were still there. To be fair, it was a "pay once" game. With MTX, of course.

For the latter, people started by paying $300+ for "alpha access" and more recently $100 for the same thing. And it's clearly 2-4 years away from being remotely ready for release. Those people are paying to do QA. And it will be pay-per-month on release, as if it was 2010.

If your FOMO overrides your other faculties, and you're willing to put up with all of that, then fine. You do you. 👍🏻

Every pre-order bonus I've seen is a skin, title or other tat that doesn't have any value beyond signalling that you pre-ordered the game.

Me? I'm done playing these financial games with video games. Until a game is released/GA, it's vapourware and non-existent. But again: you do you.