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spaceguy on 27 June 2012
Slimebeast said:
spaceguy said:
Slimebeast said:
XCOM because it's a deep gameplay experience in a genre uncommon on consoles.

Dishonored because it's a thinking man's shooter.

But why do you pre-order in the first place? What incentives do you have to pre-order? In my country it's meaningless to pre-order unless the publisher tied an in-game exclusive to a pre-order (get this suit and weapon if you pre-order), which is rare and pretty much useless anyway.


I have a room that is entirely dedicated for gaming. I even got glass shelfing up for all my limited edition gaming stuff. So if I really like the game I do usually get the add on's. Like dead space 3, I will for sure be getting what ever they want to give. I have a sh-t load of stuff I have gathered over the years. Including things people buy me for christmas.

Also yes some store's like best buy give you a lot of points and I am a silver card member, which mean anyone of my family that goes to best buy uses my card and I get points LOL. I really don't spend the 2500 a year to keep it. Others always have something they want and it is my card they use. I do buy stuff but hardly what they think. I'm building my surround sound and all I need next is my center speaker. All polk audio and a Klipsch sub woofer that shakes my neighbors house. However I have been building this for almost a year. Everytime I pay off my credit card I use it again to buy a speaker. I'm trying to build better credit. It's not that bad but needs some work.

I know you did not ask for all this info but felt like going on, My bad.

lol, it was an interesting read. I love surround systems too.

But back to incentives, that Best Buy silver card, you probably get points even if you decide to buy the game on release without a pre-order, correct?

So it boilds down to the pre-order incentives that some publishers put in, sometimes tied to a particular store, correct?

Now let's say you go to Best Buy and they tell you game X has no special exclusive items tied to it, why would you pre-order it?


No actually last year if you pre-ordered 5 games and then bought them, you got $100 worth of points. So that was a good incentive. Not sure what there doing this year but I will check it out today.

EDIT: also to add to that if Best buy does not have any good deals. I can do it at gamestop, which just makes it like layaway. So when the time comes, I will have paid a majority of it off.



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Slimebeast on 27 June 2012
spaceguy said:
Slimebeast said:
spaceguy said:
Slimebeast said:
XCOM because it's a deep gameplay experience in a genre uncommon on consoles.

Dishonored because it's a thinking man's shooter.

But why do you pre-order in the first place? What incentives do you have to pre-order? In my country it's meaningless to pre-order unless the publisher tied an in-game exclusive to a pre-order (get this suit and weapon if you pre-order), which is rare and pretty much useless anyway.


I have a room that is entirely dedicated for gaming. I even got glass shelfing up for all my limited edition gaming stuff. So if I really like the game I do usually get the add on's. Like dead space 3, I will for sure be getting what ever they want to give. I have a sh-t load of stuff I have gathered over the years. Including things people buy me for christmas.

Also yes some store's like best buy give you a lot of points and I am a silver card member, which mean anyone of my family that goes to best buy uses my card and I get points LOL. I really don't spend the 2500 a year to keep it. Others always have something they want and it is my card they use. I do buy stuff but hardly what they think. I'm building my surround sound and all I need next is my center speaker. All polk audio and a Klipsch sub woofer that shakes my neighbors house. However I have been building this for almost a year. Everytime I pay off my credit card I use it again to buy a speaker. I'm trying to build better credit. It's not that bad but needs some work.

I know you did not ask for all this info but felt like going on, My bad.

lol, it was an interesting read. I love surround systems too.

But back to incentives, that Best Buy silver card, you probably get points even if you decide to buy the game on release without a pre-order, correct?

So it boilds down to the pre-order incentives that some publishers put in, sometimes tied to a particular store, correct?

Now let's say you go to Best Buy and they tell you game X has no special exclusive items tied to it, why would you pre-order it?


No actually last year if you pre-ordered 5 games and then bought them, you got $100 worth of points. So that was a good incentive. Not sure what there doing this year but I will check it out today.

EDIT: also to add to that if Best buy does not have any good deals. I can do it at gamestop, which just makes it like layaway. So when the time comes, I will have paid a majority of it off.

$100 worth of points for 5 games is fantastic. That's like $20 off of a $60 game. But that's only because you have that Silver card? A random gamer cant just go into Best Buy and pre-order any 5 games of his liking and get $100 worth of Best Buy points?



spaceguy on 27 June 2012
Slimebeast said:
spaceguy said:
Slimebeast said:
spaceguy said:
Slimebeast said:
XCOM because it's a deep gameplay experience in a genre uncommon on consoles.

Dishonored because it's a thinking man's shooter.

But why do you pre-order in the first place? What incentives do you have to pre-order? In my country it's meaningless to pre-order unless the publisher tied an in-game exclusive to a pre-order (get this suit and weapon if you pre-order), which is rare and pretty much useless anyway.


I have a room that is entirely dedicated for gaming. I even got glass shelfing up for all my limited edition gaming stuff. So if I really like the game I do usually get the add on's. Like dead space 3, I will for sure be getting what ever they want to give. I have a sh-t load of stuff I have gathered over the years. Including things people buy me for christmas.

Also yes some store's like best buy give you a lot of points and I am a silver card member, which mean anyone of my family that goes to best buy uses my card and I get points LOL. I really don't spend the 2500 a year to keep it. Others always have something they want and it is my card they use. I do buy stuff but hardly what they think. I'm building my surround sound and all I need next is my center speaker. All polk audio and a Klipsch sub woofer that shakes my neighbors house. However I have been building this for almost a year. Everytime I pay off my credit card I use it again to buy a speaker. I'm trying to build better credit. It's not that bad but needs some work.

I know you did not ask for all this info but felt like going on, My bad.

lol, it was an interesting read. I love surround systems too.

But back to incentives, that Best Buy silver card, you probably get points even if you decide to buy the game on release without a pre-order, correct?

So it boilds down to the pre-order incentives that some publishers put in, sometimes tied to a particular store, correct?

Now let's say you go to Best Buy and they tell you game X has no special exclusive items tied to it, why would you pre-order it?


No actually last year if you pre-ordered 5 games and then bought them, you got $100 worth of points. So that was a good incentive. Not sure what there doing this year but I will check it out today.

EDIT: also to add to that if Best buy does not have any good deals. I can do it at gamestop, which just makes it like layaway. So when the time comes, I will have paid a majority of it off.

$100 worth of points for 5 games is fantastic. That's like $20 off of a $60 game. But that's only because you have that Silver card? A random gamer cant just go into Best Buy and pre-order any 5 games of his liking and get $100 worth of Best Buy points?


I don't think it had anything to do with the silver card. I think they just wanted to get you in there 5 times. However I don't think they are doing it this year. Maybe they where hoping that most would not get the 5 games and most did. I just read it, here it is.  

Now apperently you can join the gamers club for $14.99. pre-order & purchase a game from there list of pre-orders and get $20 in reward certificates.

You have to print out the certificate and bring it into best buy.

Benefits IncludeFree$14.99 Gamers Club Unlocked
Get 2x points on new game software, digital content and game accessories
Get 2x points when you trade in games¹
Get points on gaming consoles
Redeem Rewards Certificates on nearly everything at Best Buy®
Special money-saving exclusive offers
10% bonus trade-in credit on your game software trade-ins¹  
10% off pre-owned games  
Buy two, get the third free on pre-owned games via a special welcome coupon  
Save 50% on a new strategy guide via special welcome coupon  
One year subscription of @Gamer Magazine the Best Buy exclusive gaming magazine  
Get at least $100/issue in valuable coupons with your subscription of @Gamer magazine  

 

¹Games you can pre-order

  • NCAA Football 13
  • Madden Football 13
  • Far Cry 3
  • FIFA Soccer 13
  • Borderlands 2
  • Resident Evil 6
  • NBA 2K13
  • Dishonored
  • Medal of Honor: Warfighter
  • Assassin's Creed 3
  • Halo 4
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 2Must be 18 or older to trade in.
    Gamers Club Registration Terms & Conditions and Bonus Points Terms & Conditions

    • So there you go full details. I think last years was better but this doesn't seem to bad as you get your money back from the $20 and not sure about the magazine points rewards



    AndrewWK on 27 June 2012

    Why is there no bestbuy in Europe?



    spaceguy on 27 June 2012
    AndrewWK said:
    Why is there no bestbuy in Europe?



    Do you want me to go down there and tell them to get there ass over there. I actually am going to go down there, however hit this link and contact them and tell them wtf!!!

    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?type=page&id=cat12104



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    spaceguy on 27 June 2012
    spaceguy said:
    Slimebeast said:
    spaceguy said:
    Slimebeast said:
    spaceguy said:
    Slimebeast said:
    XCOM because it's a deep gameplay experience in a genre uncommon on consoles.

    Dishonored because it's a thinking man's shooter.

    But why do you pre-order in the first place? What incentives do you have to pre-order? In my country it's meaningless to pre-order unless the publisher tied an in-game exclusive to a pre-order (get this suit and weapon if you pre-order), which is rare and pretty much useless anyway.


    I have a room that is entirely dedicated for gaming. I even got glass shelfing up for all my limited edition gaming stuff. So if I really like the game I do usually get the add on's. Like dead space 3, I will for sure be getting what ever they want to give. I have a sh-t load of stuff I have gathered over the years. Including things people buy me for christmas.

    Also yes some store's like best buy give you a lot of points and I am a silver card member, which mean anyone of my family that goes to best buy uses my card and I get points LOL. I really don't spend the 2500 a year to keep it. Others always have something they want and it is my card they use. I do buy stuff but hardly what they think. I'm building my surround sound and all I need next is my center speaker. All polk audio and a Klipsch sub woofer that shakes my neighbors house. However I have been building this for almost a year. Everytime I pay off my credit card I use it again to buy a speaker. I'm trying to build better credit. It's not that bad but needs some work.

    I know you did not ask for all this info but felt like going on, My bad.

     

     



     

    This is my living room pic. My gamer room is not yet done. Just some finishing touch's and should be done.



    WiiBox3 on 27 June 2012

    AC3 and Darksiders 2. If you haven't played Darksiders 1 yet, run out and get it now. It's only ok for the first two hours, then it becomes awesome. Best Zelda game this gen.



    spaceguy on 27 June 2012
    WiiBox3 said:
    AC3 and Darksiders 2. If you haven't played Darksiders 1 yet, run out and get it now. It's only ok for the first two hours, then it becomes awesome. Best Zelda game this gen.

    At first i thought you where about to say it was ok and then sucked. No I have not played it yet. I was thinking about getting it. I think this will push me over the edge.



    WiiBox3 on 27 June 2012
    spaceguy said:
    WiiBox3 said:
    AC3 and Darksiders 2. If you haven't played Darksiders 1 yet, run out and get it now. It's only ok for the first two hours, then it becomes awesome. Best Zelda game this gen.

    At first i thought you where about to say it was ok and then sucked. No I have not played it yet. I was thinking about getting it. I think this will push me over the edge.


    Keep your eye out, it constantly goes on sale for $10-$15.



    NintendoPie on 27 June 2012

    You should Pre-order Luigi's Mansion: Dark of the Moon. And if you don't have a 3DS Pre-Order the 3DS XL.
    You'll be all set!