| Madword said: What is wrong with giving anyone money before you know about it. I'm sorry, do you ever go to the cinema to watch a film without actually knowing what the whole film is, or perhaps you rent a game or movie without knowing much about it. People are being way more judgemental about gamers pre-ordering a product than they do about anything else. I guess you might have recieved some suprise presents for christmas that you knew nothing about, perhaps you should have asked to try them before getting them. I suspects there are cases in your life where you have ordered something without knowing much about it, did you go to a resturant and order a meal without ever trying it before... there are a ton of similar examples. People are just crap talking... picking out games and game companies as some special case, but ironically, they are just being silly. You know some people have jobs and have to work, so ordering online is a perfectly reasonable assumption than having to drive home from work and then go out and buy it. You are making assumptions based on your situation, not on what others might want to do, this is my point. If people want to pre-order anything, then they are well within their rights, and just because you can pop down the shops on the day of release if you feel like it, why can those who cannot or dont want to, do the same. |
Have you ever gone to the cinema to find out parts of the movie are missing? Or that it sometimes dips below 24fps?
Or received half a Christmas present with instructions to buy the second half separately?
Did you get a Christmas present that doesn't work because they ran out of time to complete it and had to ship it in time for the shopping season?
Have you bought a car with no windshield wipers because they are preorder exclusives from a certain car dealer?
People are singling out game developers because they are the only ones delivering broken products and expecting people not to complain. They are the only ones that think it's OK to charge a full price for half a product, and expecting people to not use the other half until they fix it.
