It's funny that Jim is slowly souring on all his "moderate" positions that he used to hold.
Preorders are indeed utter bullshit. At this point I only preorder under two conditions.
1. Niche game I was going to buy anyway (JRPGs usually) that has real risk of physical copies being nonexistent.
2. Game I was going to buy Day One anyways, and has a discount for preordering on Steam.
The second example is Valve basically spitting in the faces of Gamestop and friends. "You can't even offer them anything real for preordering - we can. Cold hard cash."
I will never preorder for "exclusive DLC" or any other such idiocy. In fact, those things will not only get me to not preorder, but not even buy the normal game day one because I sure as hell am not going to be denied content because I didn't preorder. I'll wait for the "Complete DLC edition" you'll inevitably release later for half the price. You lost money because you couldn't provide me the full game for the full price.
Preorders are indeed utter bullshit. At this point I only preorder under two conditions.
1. Niche game I was going to buy anyway (JRPGs usually) that has real risk of physical copies being nonexistent.
2. Game I was going to buy Day One anyways, and has a discount for preordering on Steam.
The second example is Valve basically spitting in the faces of Gamestop and friends. "You can't even offer them anything real for preordering - we can. Cold hard cash."
I will never preorder for "exclusive DLC" or any other such idiocy. In fact, those things will not only get me to not preorder, but not even buy the normal game day one because I sure as hell am not going to be denied content because I didn't preorder. I'll wait for the "Complete DLC edition" you'll inevitably release later for half the price. You lost money because you couldn't provide me the full game for the full price.