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

On 2/13/2025 10:00 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Mike S <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote at 14:32 this Monday (GMT):

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:04:02 +0200, Anssi Saari
<anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:
>

My other near addiction to a franchise has been GTA since Vice City but
I didn't preorder any of the titles. Unless you count buying the game
and the console to play on before the PC release and then buying the PC
release as well. But I didn't preorder either version.

>
When you talk of 'franchise addiction' I immediately thought of Diablo
for me. I played the first three games to death. I never bothered
getting the fourth game though, so maybe my addiction has ended.

 Good thing too, I heard that the 4th game was microtransaction hell.

Assuming you mean Diablo 4, it's actually not.  You can only buy cosmetics with MTX.
The 3rd one was another matter because of it's real money marketplace, Blizzard didn't actually sell the Pay to Win aspect there, but profited off every sale with their vig.  At least until they eventually killed the marketplace.
I actually found the in game money marketplace quite nice, and missed it since they just ended both when they killed it.
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