The Game Industry and Pre-Ordering: When Are Pre-Orders Okay?

[Cloudman]

vivster said:

Cloudman said:

vivster said:

Preorders are ok when I do them.

I have currently one preorder running so I don't forget the release. Gonna preorder 2 more as soon as they're available on Amazon.

So should we heed your advice on what games to pre-order? Haha, I joke. These days I don't pre-order much anymore, but I may for things like amiibo in the future.

I don't see the down sides of preordering. I don't buy games that I'm not absolutely sure I will like. So I preorder at Amazon, which has the benefit of possible early delivery and possible lower price. Sometimes there are even bonuses in there, which is nice.

So preordering for me has literally only benefits. Benefits that I wouldn't have without preorder.

I don't quite understand what's bad about pre-ordering either, and yet it as a negative thing comes up sometimes. So I thought it was something worth talking about. Extras them seem very possible to be included in the game at the start, and being kept behind pre-ordering does seem a bit off putting.