I avoid buying games on release, here are my reasons

[Nuvendil]

Mar1217 said:

Nuvendil said:

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.

That's why I honestly can buy games from Capcom ( Monster Hunter, Ace Attorney ), Atlus ( Megaten series ), HAL (Kirby, SSB), EDA ( Zelda, Mario ), Monolith Soft ( Xeno series ) without worrying myself too much, 'cause they earned my trust with great quality games already :)

Exactly.  Same reason I am fine buy Bethesda games day one.  While I know not everyone has had the same experience I have, for me they have always delivered.  On PC anyway.  But another company I love but will never preorder or buy day 1 is Creative Assembly.  I love Total War but after my preorder of Rome Total War 2 bit me in the butt they are off my list essentially forever unless they do something amazing to win it back.  I'll still buy their games, but not day 1 and certainly no preorder.