I don't understand pre-orders. Do you preorder?

I recently went to Epic to get my weekly freebie hit and was asked in a
banner at the top of the page if I wanted to 'pre-order' Civ VII.

Why would anyone do that with Civ? Civ has a storied reputation for being
unfinished at release and only being worthwhile when DLCs drop.

In this case, you get an extra Civ that isn't even an exclusive. You can
buy it in the Deluxe version. If I like a Civ game, I tend to eventually
buy all the add-ons.

It's also a general question for any game at all.

For competitive FPS, I get that you want to get to be part of the
community ASAP. Especially if you're a pro or semi-pro. Maybe for a
sports title too, as it's a seasonal thing and you might have a yen for
'live sports.'

But everything else? Why buy on day 0 when you can buy on day 1? Is it
really the ability to 'pre-download?' Is there value in being able to
click 'play game' the second the official release drops? How does this
benefit anyone but the publisher?

I guess what I'm really asking is does anyone here pre-order... and WHY?
Do you get anything out of it?

--
Zag

I thought I could organize freedom, how very
Scandinavian of me. ...Björk