Poll: Do You Regularly Buy Games On/during the First Few Weeks of Launch Day?

[GundamSentinel]

Regularly yes, and all the doom and gloom of new releases notwithstanding, I have seldom been disappointed. Lately I have been trying to buy fewer new releases, but mostly for the reason that I just have too many games I want to finish before starting something new again.

 

[Tilted_Logic]

If it's a game I've been severely looking forward to, I'll pre-order. If it's a game that I didn't really know about, but friends say it's amazing and I find videos to concur, I'll buy it as soon as I can.

These days though I have so little time for games that I've ended up putting them on the back burner. I've been looking forward to Bioshock Infinite for months, but I have to be realistic and realize I just don't have the time right now. That means that I'm probably going to wait for it to go on sale.

In fact... if it's not a game I've pre-ordered, I pretty much wait for it to go on sale.

Edit: Jeez, it took me about 5 minutes just to get through the Captcha. Why on EARTH was there a Toyota ad in French? I couldn't figure out what the heck it wanted as an answer.

 

[Ultress]

I have two reasons two get on launch day: I think it'll have a very limited run(i.e the newer SMT games) and don't want to miss out. The other reason is if the preorder is bitching (for example Cathrine). For either reason I still rarely buy new games.

 

[Lightknight]

Honestly I miss being able to rent games. And no I'm not interested in paying monthly for Gamefly.

Check out Redbox for video games next time you see one. They're likely to have recent big titles.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Nope, never. I've never bought games right at launch. For one thing I'm too indecisive and for another I've got to make sure I have enough funds. Also I can't be bothered to deal with the rush.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

hardly ever, i can't remember the last game i bought for over 30 dollars, probably ME3 (which i highly regret it)

besides that, i have enough of a backlog that i wait for juicy steam deals and such later on, or i just don't get the game, its that simple really.

 

[Something Amyss]

I buy maybe one or two games on/near launch day a year.

 

[Lightknight]

That's the thing. I don't rent the big titles. My console is a Wii and I use a PC for the rest. Meaning that games like Pandora's Tower which I think I might be forced to buy just to make sure I don't get screwed like Xenoblades(stupid gamestop exclusives).

They do occasionally have Wii games, just depends on the area.

As for pc games, I did a lot of renting back in the day and I don't recall pc rental ever really being all that viable. Perhaps I just went to the wrong places though.

 

[Trollthean]

Nope I wait for the price to drop.

 

[Latinidiot]

Most of the time I don't. The last game I bought on release was Skyrim, and after that I haven't had any money. But my parents used to buy me gifts, and I'd take the opportunity to ask for something new.

 

[Fijiman]

I buy games when I have the money to buy them. If there is a game coming out sooner or later that I want and I have the money for it I'll preorder it. If I don't I wont. Same with most game that have already come out. Although, right now I need to look at getting a bigger harddrive for my xbox because I basically have nowhere near enough space left to be able to get most of the games I want and then play them.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

It depends if I can get it for $40 or less at launch. Generally, being in Australia, I can't, but thankfully I tend to be content with the game I have for long enough to remember a game I should play but don't have that came out months or years ago, so that's how that works. I may increase my limit to $60 for an Armored Core game, or Dark Souls 2.

 

[romxxii]

I didn't see an option for my preference, which is to buy only top-rated games with a 15-20+ hour completion time on launch day, and only if it's going for less than $50 at my local retailer. Otherwise, I wait for the Steam/Amazon sales.

 

[Randoman01]

No I do not. I like to wait a week or two after a review of a game comes out untill I buy it.

 

[MysticSlayer]

I generally put it off and wait until the price goes down. Not to mention, by then, you sort of have an idea as to which games continue to stand out and which ones just sort of disappear because they were mediocre at best. Occasionally I do buy a game on launch day or within a week of its release, but I have to have a good reason. I bought Civilization V and BioShock Infinite on launch day because I was reasonably certain that both games would be great and worth the $50-$60 asking price, and I wasn't disappointed. Sometimes it doesn't work out, though. I pre-ordered The Last Story because of the great reviews it got in both Japan and Europe, but it turned out to be a huge disappointment. The thing is, though, it's those disappointments that make cautious enough that the worthwhile moments are forgotten, especially since holding off has saved me numerous times from buying a completely broken game (Call of Duty: Black Ops, Duke Nukem Forever, and Aliens: Colonial Marines being the three most noteworthy).

 

[Brogan Cordova]

I've never really understood this. I mean, I understand the desire to get the newest, shiniest content the second it's available, and I understand everyone wants to be as far ahead of the "multiplayer migration" to the next thing as they can, but......I can't believe people think this outweighs waiting a few months for a price drop. And I only understand launch day in the context of fans of the series.

Skyward Sword was the last game to get my preorder and release-day sale (because I want to experience everything about my favorite series on day one), and before that was Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I'm amazingly patient with some games for prices, and I even denied myself Skyrim until I saw it on an Xmas sale for $40 (still holiday of release though). I didn't even touch Arkham City, Red Dead Redemption, and Fallout New Vegas until their GOTY w/ all DLC versions were $20 on 2012's Black Friday. Yes, Rocksteady Batman, Fallout, and Rockstar games (guaranteed to love), didn't even touch them until GOTYE 2 years later. Heck, I've sworn off the Assassin's Creed series and Bioshock Infinite until I've played and finished AC2 and Bio2, which I already own (and I hold that even knowing Bio2 isn't that good).

What I really wanna know is who are the people who are pre-ordering and buying day-one games like Injustice: Gods Among Us, Army of Two: Devil's Cartel, and Sleeping Dogs; games that (regardless of good or bad quality) are practically guaranteed to not be completely sold out anytime near their releases nor have a rabidly addicted fanbase. What madness possesses a person to buy a game upon release for the full $60 that they expect to only like instead of love, knowing that in a few months the price will drop to 40?

 

[Eddie the head]

I will get DLC or expansion packs on day one, but not full games.

 

[DeadRise17]

Any game that I would want to get on launch day, I pre-order. That and I'm cheap so a big majority of my games are years old.