Can. But shouldn't.
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Pre-ordering games encourages publishers to release buggy, unoptimized, incomplete, garbage.
And, since there's no scarcity, the assurance you might get from pre-ordering physical goods doesn't exist here.
Please don't do it.
I mean in this situation they're saying outright that they're going to release buggy unoptimized incomplete and maybe garage. So that's just kinda getting what it says on the tin tbh
Well they are competing with Minecraft.
I have been saying this for years.
If a games has is a particulary annoying preorder campaign I sometimes post a thread in their Steam community simple titled "Don't preorder video games". It always gets some interesting responses.
Never pre-order.
I would normally make an exception for indie games when it comes to never pre-ordering games but not here. The development of this was so shaky (if not flat out shady) that I recommend to wait until it‘s actually there and user reviews are flocking in.
for the first year or two after it was originally announced, I was pretty excited about it.
Then I learned that the entire project was started because Mojang changed their TOS to stop hypixel from preying so much on children with their in-server microtransactions.. and so they decided to make their own game where they are allowed to prey on children freely.
no wonder it fell into development hell. that's an awful basis for a game of the scope of hytale.
Thanks for sharing this. I removed it from my wishlist.
I was excited about this project years ago but I am very skeptical of this ever going anywhere after they seemingly made no progress for years doing endless engine reworks before now seemingly giving up on those reworks and returning to their legacy engine?
I've been instead enjoying Vintage Story and it's modding community.
Likewise, the game has lots of depth and mostly satisfying mechanics. Combat is a bit wonky but the creative tools (sub-voxel chiseling and combining block materials) within the game are where it shines. The game structure is built on modding as the main game content and scripts are themselves mods!
I watched the gameplay trailer when it came out and I can't say it was particularly invigorating. It was mostly endlessly slash at zombies then endlessly slash skeletons.
Doesn't exactly scream deep combat mechanics.