• Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    Preordering a cool indie game by backing it on a crowdfunding site where the creators get paid well and they put your name in the credits or something.

    Cover of a parody comic book entitled "Dead Pooh" featuring the title character, which is Winnie the Pooh dressed in a ninja superhero outfit like that with by Deadpool, brandishing a chainsaw and smirking like a badass.

  • LimitedEdition2319@thelemmy.club
    2·
    4 hours ago

    I love buying a console once it’s old. I bought the ps4 way after the ps5 released. Cheap games, i know which are flops, no spoilers for me, and usually i get the best releases dirt cheap.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I love buying a console once it’s old. I bought the ps4 way after the ps5 released.

      There’s a price trough where buying older consoles can make sense. PS4 after the PS5 goes live offers a healthy discount. But go looking for a PS1 and you can potential spend as much or more.

      Also, there isn’t a huge price break on the games themselves for the newest systems. Elden Ring is a great example. It cost $60 when it was released. It costs $60 today. You can play it on PS4 or PS5 or Steam or Switch. There’s no economic benefit.

      • LimitedEdition2319@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Very true, there is definitely a window to investing in older consoles. Old enough to be on sale, but not too old that its “vintage” and scalped for nostalgia. My rule is, if i have ever owned a physical copy i don’t feel bad emulating it. I bought it once.

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
    85·
    6 hours ago

    GTA 6 is something like 200Gb, pre-ordering it means you can pre download the game and install it before the lock is lifted on the release date. That’s the only reason to pre-order a game nowadays.

    • chris@l.roofo.cc
      2·
      2 hours ago

      The only problem with phones is software. They still get supported only a few years after release and even if you can install a custom Rom you might have a security problem with closed source firmware blobs.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Even Android phones now get supported for up to 7 years though. At least flagships, but I’m sure midrange phones get a decent amount too.

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    28·
    11 hours ago

    Pre-ordering games used to be cool.

    You’d show up to the game store for the midnight release, pick up your copy, then head back to your buddy’s place and play until 9pm.

    You’d get a physical copy of your game and some cool shit too.

    No install times either.

    Just plug and play.

    It was the style of the time.

    Nowadays you get a code in a box (at best) and some cheap trash.

    I haven’t pre-ordered a game since before 2012.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      The ones I enjoyed the whole pre-order process for were WoW’s TBC and WotLK. But they did have install time and server issues at launch.

      It was fun overall but I remember waiting for a server queue only to see a huge mass of people in the starting areas, waiting for quest mobs to respawn to race to get the first hit on and the relief that came with finally getting ahead of that pack. They didn’t have digital versions despite the game being completely online and blizzard probably being one of the few that had the bandwidth available to run an online store at the time.

    • Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      10 hours ago

      In the case of GTA6, you don’t even get the cheap trash. The paper map you used to get as a bonus in the box is missing, and you need to buy it separately

  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    5 hours ago

    Only ever pre-ordered 2 games. One of the 3ds Pokemons, and Skyrim. Skyrim was ordered at my college campus’s GameStop. Went to pick it up, and they asked me for my ID to verify my age. Funny enough they didn’t need my id to refund me. So I took my money to best buy and got some extra free swag.

  • dan@upvote.au
    23·
    13 hours ago

    I don’t really understand preordering digital products. They’re not going to run out of stock. At least with physical games, you can get limited edition physical goodies with it.

    • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      They give you limited edition digital goodies I think

      Not that that’s worth paying double for a product you haven’t even seen yet

    • raspirate@lemmy.world
      23·
      5 hours ago

      I’m probably going to pre-order GTA 6 sometime this week because preloading is already available and I don’t want to be trying to download the same 200gb game at the same time as hundreds of millions of other people. I’m sure the servers can handle it, but I’d still feel better just downloading earlier. I’d like to be completely sure that I’ll be ready to start playing after work on Thursday, and I’ll feel more confident in that if I already have it downloaded in advance.

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    11 hours ago

    What’s the next level of this so I can repost it about pre-ordering an early access game like what just happen with ArchAge Chronicles. Posts full of people proudly announcing their prepurchase and defending it only for it to be a probable review-botted quick cash scam.

      • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        me buying Deltarune on day one without a single bit of hesitation :D

        Even managed to get it to crash somehow XD (and because of the game’s 4th-wall-breaking nature, it took me a minute to realise that this is, in fact, not intentional)

        Submitted a bug report, it worked flawlessly when I continued playing a day later. I want to believe that the bug report helped somehow

    • ivan@piefed.socialEnglish
      47·
      20 hours ago

      My favourite is discovering that developer also added my language.

      Goddamn Ubisoft has two offices in the country and “there isn’t enough market demand” for them, and years earlier they would also do asshole shit like region locking game copies to only have Russian and Chinese languages.

      And yet some studio of 5 folks thousands of kilometers from here just cares.

    • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      15 hours ago

      I envy the people who played Undertale when it released! I’m just glad to be playing Deltarune before it’s complete.