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Cyberpunk was the nail in my pre-order coffin, fuck those clowns and their shitty releases. I don't want the game to be good and playable 3 years after I bought it.
Oh and for the fan bois if the game was so good when released, why did they have to do a complete overhaul of basically the entire game to make it good?
The release was trash and the game released with as little product as possible while charging people full price.
In what way did they do a "complete overhaul"? I played on PC when it came out and had fewer issues than plenty of other AAA releases in the last few years.
Are you upset about bugs or not getting what you expected?
If it's bugs then I'll assume either that you played it on hardware that it shouldn't have been released on, or you scream about nearly every game you play.
If it was not getting what you expected I'd suggest you disconnect from hype trains. We older gamers learned that lesson long ago when commercials only showed fmv sequences and actual game play was well below.
If I had it to do over again I'd buy CP2077 over Fallout 4 without a second thought, but no one is still whining at Bethesda over that.
Preordering is 100% why the last console gen was full of half-assed releases. It has to stop.
The only game I've preordered in the last like 5 years is Pikmen 4, and only because I enjoyed the demo so much.
The only game I've ever done that for in any way was Pillars of Eternity, and that was because I never expected the Kickstarter to succeed so explosively.
I don't pre-order really but I do get tempted with 18% off pre-order deals at various PC shops online
I don't even play half the games I buy. I just pre-order them so I get the cool goodies that come with the game like art books, metal cases, tapestries, etc.
I used to do that when I was about ten years younger, now I am mostly trying to get rid of them to save some space as all they do is collect dust on some shelf or box.
The last pre-order bonus I got was a pair of socks. That killed my interest in extraneous offers.
Wait, Alan Wake 2 is finally coming? Didn‘t know it was actually still being developed.
Personally, I still preorder games but look to use retailers with easy cancellations that do not bill until shipment, and have lowest price guarantees. I’ve occasionally saved a decent amount of money by preordering on say Amazon because a game I had an order on momentarily dropped right down in price before being bumped back up, and I payed the lower price. Collectors editions for less than the standard, and the like. In more recent times as an example, I got Far Cry 6 Gold Edition (with season pass) for $79AUD day one where the retail was $149AUD for that edition.
It’s quite predatory, but sometimes the preorder bonuses are alright too.
If it’s looking like a game will suck, or my preorder price isn’t good, then I may cancel approaching the release. I do try and stick to developers or franchises I trust...Nintendo and the like.
I’m ordering physical games here rather than digital. In Australia Day one or week physical sales are often cheaper, and then the games jump back up. In the case of Nintendo published games, they then often stay high for a long time and almost never drop dramatically, so I see no reason not to grab those titles early if I’m confident in the game itself, as I won’t save much or anything waiting.