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

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:38:01 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:35:56 -0800, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Justisaur wrote:
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On 2/7/2025 8:03 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
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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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Nope, closest I've come is buying Fallout 3 on day 1, and I sure feel I
would've been better off waiting.  I do have a lunchbox and bobblehead
for my trouble though as they only had whatever edition had those extras
at the Gamestop I bought it from.

Please tell me it came in the lunchbox.

Heheh. I have that lunchbox! I'm a sucker for game-boxes made out of
metal.  ;-)

I don't know if I got it on launch-day, but I definitely didn't
pre-order it. I do recall they were available for long after the game
came out, sitting dustily and unwanted on store shelves, waiting for
some sucker (like me!) to buy them.

I was always tempted to use the lunchbox for its intended purpose
(carrying a lunch!) but I never did. Not because I thought it was
silly, but the damn thing was just too bulky. So, like its unpurchased
brethren, my box sat on a shelf collecting dust ;-)

The game was fun, though.