What happens when you pre-order a game digitally
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in the past, it made a lot of sense to preorder, if you used the trading market (which valve recently killed). i bought witcher 3 for like 16$ or something last year. so i saved a lot. that was maybe 11€ at the time. now i would have to pay 50€. Comment has been collapsed.
You mean 16$ from a Russian Trader.. just be happy those were aloud to start with. Comment has been collapsed.
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Voted for potato because there are no options like "I used to... but..." Comment has been collapsed.
also, it gets super annoying that every super-pro-core-gamer thinks, it is his duty to keep everyone from preordering. sorry, if that sounds harsh. don't necessarily mean you with that. but we had so many of these threads already, in so many forums. and they escalate so quickly. if you post there and say you like preordering - prepare to be called a dumb idiot. ^^ if you don't like preordering (for understandable reasons), don't do it. but let people their opinions. ;) Comment has been collapsed.
I don't hate preordering, I WOULD preorder IF you give me a reason to.
Look at Evolve, best MMO model here, it's able to make a profit with about 1000 devoted players payers Comment has been collapsed.
i gave you an example. is saving 70-80% money for the full game not a good reason? funny that you mention Evolve. i preordered it, when there was a price error. i paid less than 8$ for it. ^^ Comment has been collapsed.
I've only pre-ordered one game (Witcher 3). Though, the amount of pre-orders can have a pretty large impact on how much developers get from their publishers. Eh, 70-80% is pretty good, though if I like the dev I want to give them some bread :). Comment has been collapsed.
Well, if the publisher doesn't
provide a good deal or a price error you don't really save much. If you miss the price error for Evolve, the game is just a "Pay 55€ to pay 15€ for for each class we release along the way" The GTA V model was pretty good though: "Pay $60 to get the game on day one and an extra classic GTA as an extra". Although a classmate did pre order it (retail, ironically) and didn't play yet, his rig can't handle the game and he didn't even get the extra San Andreas Comment has been collapsed.
only a few months ago, there didn't have to be a price error or publisher deal. all games were cheap (in russia). and preordering made a lot of sense. we preordered, before they region-locked the games. this way we paid maybe ~30% average of the normal EU price. yes, sometimes a game was not as good as we thought. but in total we still saved a lot of money that way. so preordering made a lot of sense. that is what i wanted to tell you. and should make it obvious that there can be good reasons for preordering. i just dislike the whole "i am a core gamer, i understand the industry, everyone who preorders is a douchebag and gets flamed like crazy by me, because he destroys my market!!11". again - i don't necessarily mean you with that. that's just how many guys behave on the internet. Comment has been collapsed.
Nah, judging people based on how they buy their games is something I understand (it's human nature to judge) but it's something we should stop doing. Games are a commodity, and commodities are not priced as they are worth, they are priced on the point we are willing to pay. I, for one, the only game I got full-price was Skyrim LE, got it on retail when I could get it on a sale on Steam a week later (or before) and I already finished the Skyrim: Pirate Edition (rrrrwar) before. I told people I thought it was worth the price, so I'll buy it. I actually just wanted the achievements and the easy download (+sync) on Steam. Was the first game I voluntarily DIDN'T pirate and I never pirated a game since. :D In my country you are judged for paying anything for anything, so buying a game is an instant "Why the f*** did you do that?" from pretty much every non-Dota player (those are linked here for an obvious reason aka Steam) Comment has been collapsed.
I thought it was the "super-pro-core-gamers" that were most likely to pre-order games. Sure, if you have the money and the compulsion, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with doing so. On the other hand, pre-ordering games in many cases (see the big publishers) help support shitty business practices such as store exclusive in-game items, releasing unfinished/buggy games and so on. Comment has been collapsed.
Ok, made a thread here, but I hate not having anything to give away to the community here, so I'll just drop an Echo of Souls beta key (you redeem it on Aeria, I think, puzzle) Comment has been collapsed.
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And the 300+ people that voted on the poll. Comment has been collapsed. This comment was deleted 3 years ago. Comment has been collapsed.
For me preordering bonuses are a bunch of crap. Comment has been collapsed.
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i preordered witcher 3 because i could get it for a sweet price before valve closed off russian trading :D honestly, a great price or needing to spend credits before they dry up, are the only reason i can think of to preorder something... Comment has been collapsed.
For how much did you get it? o: Comment has been collapsed.
it was 7 or 8 keys back then. Comment has been collapsed.
WOW, that is indeed an amazing price. Comment has been collapsed.
;_;... just wow. miss our old russian traders Comment has been collapsed.
Witcher 3 is the only game I preorder, and I did it because I bought the collectors edition, which was super limited. Other than that I would rather wait price dropping. I also got Batman Arkham Knight preorder by trading, which is nice. Comment has been collapsed.
Speaking of Witcher 3: I preordered it almost a year ago, since then all the steam prices in my country have increased dramatically due to currency exchange rate. It's like I got a 50% discount from its current (full) price. Comment has been collapsed.
The two games I ever pre-ordered were the PC version of Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2. Although I knew exactly what I was buying by then. For a completely new game… would never pre-order. Although it is funny to see the reactions of people who did for such much-expected flops and bad games like Titanfall, Watch_Dogs, or Destiny, to name a few from recent times. Comment has been collapsed.
Nope. No preorders. None. Na-ah. No sir. Not all of them even deserve to be bought on release day, for example, If it's a UBISOFT game - stay the f@&k away from that game for as long as you can, because it usually takes them a month or so to make a game properly playable (while still buggy). It's a sick concept, encouraging devs to release bad / unfinished content, while still bathing in money tube. CoD half-year-before-release preorders payed for as much as a new CoD game development ever needed, and still they make a copy-paste game, even worse than previous one. And after all this CoD's, Colonial Marine's and other s@&ty games people preordered, they never learn and keep giving money for a cute little trailers and game concepts they're seeing. Very few devs can be trusted these days, and yeah, RockStar one of them. But still didn't preorder :D Comment has been collapsed.
When I pre-order a game that means I have no doubts it will be good and I want to support the developers by paying the full price and showing my confidence in them. I do this whenever I can afford it, sadly not as often as I would like to. I have never regretted doing it so far. Comment has been collapsed.
Pre-orders in the digital world are for the benefit of the publisher, not the consumer.Since indeed, supply is infinite when the game gets released. Comment has been collapsed.
"We are now selling the hype" should be the new version of "Game XYZ is now available for pre-order" Comment has been collapsed.
Also why do you hate ALL pre-orders? You should hate those broken Early Access games, which will never be finished. Most of them are more broken than AC:Unity was on release. Comment has been collapsed.
Not ALL, I said it above, Rockstar nailed it for GTA V on Steam, and The Witcher 3 is doing it OK right now (if I had the money and time and the rig to run it right now, I would buy it, even as a non-hardcore-witcher) Comment has been collapsed.
If you pre-order a digital game, you can pre-load it a week before release. Isn't it good, that when it finally gets released, you can play it immediately, and you don't have to wait for installing from disc or downloading 40-60GBs? I pre-ordered The Evil Within Limited Edition, and it arrived with 4(!) double layer discs (8,5 GB each), and it wanted to install 40GB. It arrived afternoon (1 or 2 PM), and thanks to my "super fast" internet, it took 7-8 hours to download. I had that whole afternoon to play it, but nope. It had to download 20 GBs, plus decompressing and such. Not everybody in this world have super fast internet, that can download a 40-60GB game in an hour or less. So in my opinion, digital Pre-orders are good, because you can play the game (in most cases), right when it comes out. Comment has been collapsed.
Playing a game on day 1 is, like Nanabanana said above, "buying into the hype" If it makes you feel any better, 40GB takes about 20 hours on my Internet, add the overhead on the Hard drive+install on 5400rpm HDD, just leave the PC there for the weekend... Comment has been collapsed.
Where did you read, that I have optical drive? I didn't have, and still don't have, because digital games are the future. Also it wasn't compatible with my new rig. Also playing a game Day 1 doesn't mean that you are "buying into the hype". It means, that you have faith in the developers, and you trust that it will be a good game. Also developers are people too. They have to eat, pay bills and so on. If you don't buy games full price, you will not support them, and now I'm not saying that you must buy all games for full price, but at least if you can, buy 1 per year. If you don't support the developers, they will not be able to make games, because they have to find another job. Yeah, that 60$ or even EUR may be expensive, but you are supporting them with it. Of course mega-companies can live without full price pre-orders, but for a smaller company, even one full price pre-order can decide between success, and failure. I pre-ordered The Evil Within for full price, and even if it gets discounted by 90%, I will never regret my decision. Same goes for Borderlands The Pre-Sequel. There are many good games that are worthy of pre-order, but you always remember the bad ones. Comment has been collapsed.
When I started collecting and playing games on Steam, I thought digital games are the future, but I still look at my PS2 collection and the retail PC game collection which is right in front of me all the time and I miss CDs (the collection and sort aspect, not the "WHY IS THERE A BROKEN CD IN THE COMPUTER?" talk I had with my dad a while ago because I forgot a CD in) Comment has been collapsed.
" Also developers are people too. They have to eat, pay bills and so on. If you don't buy games full price, you will not support them, and now I'm not saying that you must buy all games for full price, but at least if you can, buy 1 per year. If you don't support the developers, " By the way is a good way to illustrate my point "to bring in money sooner and reduce financial risk that way." from the developer's/publisher's point of view. Now that I'm looking back, apart from Borderlands 2 all my other pre-orders (including
backing the kickstarter for Shadowrun Hong Kong & early access purchase of Carmageddon Reincarnation for convenience) were for smaller companies. Comment has been collapsed.
And were you happy with it, or you feel like you burned money? I really wonder, especially seeing how everybody says TEW turned out to be really medicore, at best. Comment has been collapsed.
I will never, ever regret my decision. The Evil Within was an amazing game for me. People were mostly bitching about graphics, and performance issues. I'm immune to these things, because a year ago, I had a really crappy computer. It ran Borderlands 2 in 800x600, everything on low with 20-30 fps. Graphics can't be a decisive matter in video games, especially since TEW has really good gameplay mevhanics, and a really good story. I am still thankful, that I could get the Season Pass for 3 keys. Comment has been collapsed.
I preorder if I want to play it as soon as it's released (and if a price is affordable for me), since it's usually slightly cheaper.I could wait few months for a better deal, true, but, sometimes, it's just not worth it. My last preorder was Talos Principle, due to it having a lower price in my regione (EU2) and a -15% discount, it was quite affordable, I really wanted to play it right away so I preordered. Comment has been collapsed.
Yup, Talos Principle was worth it, providing the public test is probably the best way an indie game would be able to launch at such a high price (I wanted to buy it, but the price just gave me a shock) Comment has been collapsed.
+1 for Talos. And a huge +1 for Croteam, for thinking about european customers! Comment has been collapsed.
agree i also loved the sillyness and epicness of 16 player co/op Serious Sam 3 bfg edition :) Comment has been collapsed.
the same for Binding of isaac rebirth Comment has been collapsed.
Never pre-order and never pay full price :) Comment has been collapsed.
I never preordered a game , and i never will. So yeah , DONT Pre-Order games... Comment has been collapsed.
I preorder from time to time, sometimes you get burned, sometimes everything works out alright. Main reason for my preorder is the anticipation and the ability to preload stuff. I used to play on console too (360), where another reason for preordering (not in a digital way though) was to ensure to get a copy on release day (I see though that this is a nonconern for digital media). There was a shop that still managed to hand away my preordered GTA 4 copy though, which was kind of a bummer, I never purchased anything from them afterwards. I don't see into the hype and antihype about preordering itself, people generally should be responsible enough about their purchases to know if something is worth (to them personally) to buy before release or not. Comment has been collapsed.
i tend to pre order if i have the disposable income at the time, for instance if ive done a lot of overtime one month. overtime isnt always guaranteed and i might not get any when a game is released so for me it makes sense to buy it when i have the money rather than leave myself short. Comment has been collapsed.
Only preordered few games from Russian Steam when it still was cool. Will never preorder digital game for more than around €25. Comment has been collapsed.
I make pre order only if very much want this game my pre-orders: Comment has been collapsed.
Digital games dont have a higher price... and preordering digital games isnt anything different than preordering physical games, now that I think about it, they are different. With digital games you can preload and play the game on the minute the game releases and you dont have to wait for the game to come in the mail. Comment has been collapsed.
Just looked at Witcher 3 price to check. 38.26€ retail (no shipping fee), 45.29€ gog, 49.99€ Steam, and the retail is not even on sale. Also, retail comes with a map, stickers, manuals, compedium. AND IT'S CHEAPER, FFS. But Romanian retail prices are all over the place Edit: this is not an argument against pre-ordering, this is just me saying retail pre-orders are probably a bit more worth the money. Comment has been collapsed.
The only 2 pre orders I did were because I really wanted the game
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It's simple, because I want to... now what kind of games I pre-order... well mainly from devs/publishers I like . Every year I pre-order maybe 2-3 games and yet to regret any of those purchases .. For this year I already got GTA V, was thinking to get Trine 3 but because they went into Early Access I'm skipping and now waiting for SPAZ 2 release. Honestly, atm I rarely play any games, especially the ones I get on sale xD but pre-ordered games are rushed once released xD Comment has been collapsed. What happens when you preIf you pre-order a game, you are paying money for a product that is not yet released. Often this will include a release date, so you can know when to expect the game to be available. When you buy a Pre-Order, you will receive a blank download page that is awaiting content.
When you preorder a game does it download?Yes you can usually when you preorder a game it will download itself and have a little tag on the title saying “Pre-ordered” when you attempt to play it, it will say “Please wait until the release date” or something similar to that.
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