Preordering a cool indie game by backing it on a crowdfunding site where the creators get paid well and they put your name in the credits or something.
I did this once for the Kickstarter Special Price
Then they released it. A the Special Price.
Oof.
That’s not the same as preordering though, that’s financing an indie project
Preordering a game that’s in kickstarter:
I love buying a console once it’s old. I bought the ps4 way after the ps5 released. Cheap games, i know which are flops, no spoilers for me, and usually i get the best releases dirt cheap.
pirating a 17 years old game?
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I still play Lemmings from time to time. 35 years old at this point. If I want something new I’ll play Lemmings 2: The Tribes.
Pirating a game that releases next week
Pre-ordering games used to be cool.
You’d show up to the game store for the midnight release, pick up your copy, then head back to your buddy’s place and play until 9pm.
You’d get a physical copy of your game and some cool shit too.
No install times either.
Just plug and play.
It was the style of the time.
Nowadays you get a code in a box (at best) and some cheap trash.
I haven’t pre-ordered a game since before 2012.
The ones I enjoyed the whole pre-order process for were WoW’s TBC and WotLK. But they did have install time and server issues at launch.
It was fun overall but I remember waiting for a server queue only to see a huge mass of people in the starting areas, waiting for quest mobs to respawn to race to get the first hit on and the relief that came with finally getting ahead of that pack. They didn’t have digital versions despite the game being completely online and blizzard probably being one of the few that had the bandwidth available to run an online store at the time.
In the case of GTA6, you don’t even get the cheap trash. The paper map you used to get as a bonus in the box is missing, and you need to buy it separately
“Welcome to the future, that’ll be $99.99 please.”
“Mountain Dew is good for me and you.”
GTA 6 is something like 200Gb, pre-ordering it means you can pre download the game and install it before the lock is lifted on the release date. That’s the only reason to pre-order a game nowadays.
Better hope they don’t come out with a day 1 patch and push the update with the base game.
There will be a day -1 patch for sure.
Oh no, you have to wait a whole extra day to play a video game…
If that is a reason for you, you’re a moron
Why the name calling? People like you are turning Lemmy into Reddit
It would have been a reason for younger me. I walked 5 or 6 miles to a midnight release of Halo 3.
Same thing for phones.
The only problem with phones is software. They still get supported only a few years after release and even if you can install a custom Rom you might have a security problem with closed source firmware blobs.
Even Android phones now get supported for up to 7 years though. At least flagships, but I’m sure midrange phones get a decent amount too.
I don’t really understand preordering digital products. They’re not going to run out of stock. At least with physical games, you can get limited edition physical goodies with it.
They give you limited edition digital goodies I think
Not that that’s worth paying double for a product you haven’t even seen yet
I think it’s just simply impatience
I’m probably going to pre-order GTA 6 sometime this week because preloading is already available and I don’t want to be trying to download the same 200gb game at the same time as hundreds of millions of other people. I’m sure the servers can handle it, but I’d still feel better just downloading earlier. I’d like to be completely sure that I’ll be ready to start playing after work on Thursday, and I’ll feel more confident in that if I already have it downloaded in advance.
this you?
Only ever pre-ordered 2 games. One of the 3ds Pokemons, and Skyrim. Skyrim was ordered at my college campus’s GameStop. Went to pick it up, and they asked me for my ID to verify my age. Funny enough they didn’t need my id to refund me. So I took my money to best buy and got some extra free swag.
You guys buy games?
What’s the next level of this so I can repost it about pre-ordering an early access game like what just happen with ArchAge Chronicles. Posts full of people proudly announcing their prepurchase and defending it only for it to be a probable review-botted quick cash scam.
Buying indie games day 1 hits different tho.
especially after playing the demo
me buying Deltarune on day one without a single bit of hesitation :D
Even managed to get it to crash somehow XD (and because of the game’s 4th-wall-breaking nature, it took me a minute to realise that this is, in fact, not intentional)
Submitted a bug report, it worked flawlessly when I continued playing a day later. I want to believe that the bug report helped somehow
My favourite is discovering that developer also added my language.
Goddamn Ubisoft has two offices in the country and “there isn’t enough market demand” for them, and years earlier they would also do asshole shit like region locking game copies to only have Russian and Chinese languages.
And yet some studio of 5 folks thousands of kilometers from here just cares.
What dev/game?
Songs of Conquest by Lavapotion is an example. Funniest part - it’s a “Heroes-like”, like franchise Ubisoft killed at some point. 🌝
crysis
I envy the people who played Undertale when it released! I’m just glad to be playing Deltarune before it’s complete.
Why is that?
Pre-ordering a game? Is this a beta-release?
I can’t wait to play GTA 6 in 2028, assuming we haven’t blown up the planet yet.
I cant wait to play the decomp on November 21st (mostly joking)
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Just think of how good the mods will be by then, if we’re still around!
It was different in the old days. Midnight release parties at the game store, rush home, put in the game, immediately start playing.
Nowadays they can’t even ship a functional game day one half the damn time.
And that’s assuming it even “ships”, in a physical sense.
and then you put the disc in and for some reason it still takes hours to download something
That download is the game
You often times get effectively a code on a disc. Other times it’s just like a fraction of the game’s code so that early copies that leak can’t be played before launch (something that for a very brief moment in time was happening a lot)
Couple years ago my mom gifted me KC:D, it came on seven disks I think xD Not sure if you could play without tying it to a steam account first tho, so I don’t actually own it anyway…
