I avoid buying games on release, here are my reasons

[Nuvendil]

Preorders and day-one purchases should, imo, be treated like Kickstarter backing. You are purchasing without proof of quality of the product (or limited proof if reviews are on time), so it should be based on earned trust. You gain little to nothing from this practice so it should be a reward for publishers who have earned it. Have the publisher's previous games delivered? Are their games up to your technical standards at launch? Those are the questions you should ask. If people would just do that, we would probably see a lot of things change in this industry. Shoot, Ubisoft and WB might start behaving themselves for a change.