I officially hate everyone who preorders digital games. There is absolutely no justification for it. If you preorder, youre the reason modern gaming sucks.

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Wish people would wait to see what the game is actually like rather than blindly trusting a corporation… Consumerism sucks

The funniest thing is seeing the rage from Star Citizen fanboys about all this. They keep saying “it’ll be buggy and awful on release” like SC isn’t already. I know with Bethesda, they’ll fix it up and the modders will go wild with patches and add ins, delivering all the stuff Chris Roberts said they would. Meanwhile, I try and play Star Citizen and i’ve died or failed a mission due to glitches any time i’ve tried to play this past week.

Star Citizen still has fanboys?

Star Citizen delivers just enough to keep people super invested, their recent server rework is actually a really cool addition but every time I consider trying to play it again I realize how shallow and broken it is as a videogame.

This have looks fabulous to me, but there’s no way I’m preordering. I don’t have a lot of experience with Bethesda, but I thought the overall picture painted was a pretty gorgeous one. Hopefully they can deliver. That being said, I just started playing Fallout76 about two weeks ago, so I don’t mind waiting until they work sone things out. Overall though, what they are promising looks incredible. Probably too good to be true :)

SkillUp said it quite nicely; Never preorder, never ever preorder. And finally, never preorder.

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I learned that from TotalBiscuit a long time ago.

I won’t even consider buying until it’s been out for at least a year or two. By then the major bugs will have been fixed and all the content added.

!patientgamers@lemmy.ml

It looks good in the marketing (it always does) but we should all remember that it’s Bethesda making this. Then again, I can’t even name a developer that I would say “hell yeah, this is gonna be awesome!” at this point. The very sad state of the industry.

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Stop preordering omg

I don’t really care that people throw away their money like this. Because I am now always looking forward to the always very entertaining youtube clips of how much off a disaster the lastet AAA videogame release is.

won’t preorder, but i so do hope that it’s gonna be good and worth the wait …

People will never learn to not preorder games. I have no hope for humanity at this point.

Queue the “internet people are a vocal minority” saying. Unfortunately, it really is true. How anyone can pre-order after fo76 is absolutely bonkers to me

Stop. Preordering.

Why are people advising against pre-ordering? Is Bethesda known for not meeting expected release dates?

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Why are people buying products that they can’t even have until release day?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5Uj4XIT1Y

Basically, preordering incentivizes companies to release games that are not finished. In general, companies will always maximize revenues while minimizing costs. If they can release a game that didn’t cost them as much to produce (getting massive preorders through good marketing but pinching development and quality) then they absolutely will. look at any AAA released this year

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The people that preorder clearly aren’t listening

Like at least find out if the planets are any good first and not just 2000 procedurally generated flavors of bear asses to collect.

Hopefully there’s a whole RPG game in there and those are just side stuff to muck around and get some loot.

I don’t get the appeal of preordering a game months before it comes out when there isn’t even a discount for doing so. At least Steam has 2 hour returns, but why money upfront so far away from release?

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If this gets us another Internet Historian video on the fallout, then this is worth it.

  • Pun unintended.
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His video was great. Not sure if anyone noticed when they were showcasing the game they were showing console games and cut off right before they fully showed F76 LMAO

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I noticed that as well, made me laugh lol

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Do not preorder ffs…

Preordering is dumb, preordering in 2023 when it’s 50/50 whether any given PC port is going to be a total mess is dumb

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