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

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 16:03 this Friday (GMT):

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.
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Why would anyone do that with Civ? Civ has a storied reputation for being
unfinished at release and only being worthwhile when DLCs drop.
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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.
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It's also a general question for any game at all.
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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.'
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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?
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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?

I think the only game I've pre-ordered is Paper Mario TOK (which was
a..fine. game. not really a PM game tho). TBH I'm just not insanely
interested in modern games anymore.
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