Sujet : Re: I don't understand pre-orders. Do you preorder?
De : rstowleigh (at) *nospam* x-nospam-x.com (Rin Stowleigh)
Groupes : comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.actionDate : 07. Feb 2025, 20:48:09
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 09:36:12 -0700, "rms" <
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wrote:
I guess what I'm really asking is does anyone here pre-order... and WHY?
Do you get anything out of it?
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This gets asked periodically, and I have pre-ordered various title over
the years. Anything kickstarter is a pre-order, with the attraction being
actually helping a project you like get funded, such as System Shock Remake,
Overload, Woolfe. I pre-ordered Cyberpunk due to all the hype, pre-ordered
Stalker2 via a greymarket site to get a hefty discount. You can see that
some of these weren't in true release condition for years, was that a huge
deal, well not really. The last couple years in particular, with its
tsunami of 'free' games from retailers and release debacles has made us more
blasé and cynical, but pre-ordering can still be fun
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rms
I'm generally not a pre-order guy because (1) rarely do SP-only titles
excite me enough to want to be an early adopter/beta tester and (2) I
can only determine if an MP game is worth owning if it already has
enough players to fill sessions, and that rules out any real reason to
pre-order.
Now I will say I did purchase Red Dead Redemption II (both SP and MP
title) through the Rockstar store, even though I didn't want to
because Steam just seems to have faster updates and does a lot of
other things better. It wasn't a pre-order situation as much as a day
one....
... but the Rockstar offering at the time was that you got immediate
access to a particularly good horse if and only if you bought straight
from the Rockstar store. That turned out to be one of the best
decisions I could have made, because that horse had particularly good
performance characteristics that allowed me to win a lot of PvP races
in RDR2 online. Imagine the old motorcyle game "Road Rash" on
horseback... it is a tremendously fun game mode (or at least it was in
the first couple of years, not sure how active it is now). Horse
racing was one of the best ways to generate in-game currency, which is
required to have any kind of fun in the game and it is harder to come
by in some games. So by winning lots of races I was able to build
wealth in less time, and that made the game more fun overall.