Jimquisition: Previewed, Preordered, Prescrewed

[Jabbawocky]

This video has made me think about games I've pre-ordered. All have been for this generation:

Alan Wake - Loved it. Bought based on Remedy's Max Payne games.
Bioshock 2 - Mildly disappointed. Bought based on previous game.
Mass Effect 3 - Mostly liked it. Bought based on previous games.
Max Payne 3- Loved it. See Alan Wake.
Resident Evil 5 - Liked it. Sold by a pre-release demo.

Curently have a pre-order on GTA V.

I tend to pre-order only if I trust a developer/publisher or have good experiences from previous games in the same series. I tend to be way of unproven IPs.

 

[jpoon]

Excellent video Jim, well spoken. Stop preordering shit, it's a stupidly unnecessary habit that people have got themselves into. I've avoided preordering for the last year and it has hurt me not even a single day.

 

[viranimus]

LOL Jim Jim Jim.

You should know better. You would have better luck asking gamers to stop using Steam.

You seem to forget. Ignorance is bliss. Gamers typically dont care what damage they do to the industry or other gamers. So long as they are happy, to the individual thats all that matters.

And you cant blame developers for being this fixated on preorders. How else do you get a chance to get people to pay full price for mediocre content that will have to be dropped in price within the first week due to horrible ratings? I mean the movie industry does similar things, so its not surprising publishers do it too.

So while your fanbase with all applaud you for saying it and attest to how they personally never contributed to this problem, you arent going to see any sort of effect for an impassioned plea formed out of logic and reason. You might as well have been speaking in binary.

 

[WolfDude191]

I think the only three games I've ever pre-ordered were Left 4 Dead 2, Aliens vs Predators and Borderlands 2.

Thankfully, I didn't make the mistake twice by pre-ordering Colonial Marines.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

I don't get preorders. There are very, VERY few games that I buy immediately on release date because I know that I can't live without them and that I know are going to be extremely awesome. Hell, I'm one of the biggest Halo fanboys I know, and I never bothered to get the Legendary editions for 2, 3, or Reach, because I'm not a bloody idiot and I don't think that the content, kinda cool as some of it is, is really worth the extra asking price when I can be buying something else, like a Fallout game or something.

Call me crazy, but I don't think I need the Valkyrie Assault Rifle to kill the Reapers, or need the special Arctic Camouflage suit to prevent myself from being assassinated from a rank 130 Spartan-IV. To date, developers haven't made it so that preorders break the game.

... To date.

... Now because I said this, game balance is gonna be thrown right the fuck out the window.

 

[Drejer43]

The only game I´ll pre-order now a days is the totalwar series. Because I know what I get, an arcadedy grand strategy, that is extremely buggy on release. But I love that series to much, damn it.

 

[Sateru]

:T I have little faith in pre-ordering anything, but I'm more than happy to never pre-order any game until they've earned it. Then again, I don't pre-order purely because I just want to wait for the price in the game itself to come down. They always do... they go from $50 to $15. You have to spend like around $35 dollars just to have the right to play it immediately. :T I've yet to find a game that has been worth that much extra money to play it.