• @[email protected]
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    22 years ago

    I don’t really care that people throw away their money like this. Because I am now always looking forward to the always very entertaining youtube clips of how much off a disaster the lastet AAA videogame release is.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      Queue the “internet people are a vocal minority” saying. Unfortunately, it really is true. How anyone can pre-order after fo76 is absolutely bonkers to me

  • @[email protected]
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    I don’t get the appeal of preordering a game months before it comes out when there isn’t even a discount for doing so. At least Steam has 2 hour returns, but why money upfront so far away from release?

  • squid
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    Wish people would wait to see what the game is actually like rather than blindly trusting a corporation… Consumerism sucks

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      Why are people advising against pre-ordering? Is Bethesda known for not meeting expected release dates?

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5Uj4XIT1Y

        Basically, preordering incentivizes companies to release games that are not finished. In general, companies will always maximize revenues while minimizing costs. If they can release a game that didn’t cost them as much to produce (getting massive preorders through good marketing but pinching development and quality) then they absolutely will. look at any AAA released this year

      • Forkk
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        12 years ago

        Why are people buying products that they can’t even have until release day?

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      Like at least find out if the planets are any good first and not just 2000 procedurally generated flavors of bear asses to collect.

      Hopefully there’s a whole RPG game in there and those are just side stuff to muck around and get some loot.

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    I don’t really get how people’s problem with Bethesda is bugs and glitches, which are completely solvable, and not the writing that makes you want to remove some brain tissue from your skull so that it doesn’t bother you that much

    • Kerb
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      Id guess that 76 was a big catalyst in that.
      Since it was an online game you couldn’t load community patches,
      so people where kinda forced to stare it in the face.

      In addition to that, the perception of AAA games kinda shifted in general.

      From Blockbusters with incredible production value, to overhyped and unfinished bug ridden messes.

      So Bethesda gets lot more flak now for having so many bugs, even tho almost none are game breaking

  • @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    Another proof for publishers that they only need big promises and nice trailers to sell their game, nevermind the state they ship it in

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    If this gets us another Internet Historian video on the fallout, then this is worth it.

    • Pun unintended.
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      His video was great. Not sure if anyone noticed when they were showcasing the game they were showing console games and cut off right before they fully showed F76 LMAO

    • Prof. Sweetlove
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      12 years ago

      My tactic of waiting a year until a newly released game is fully patched and grabbing it with a discount has yet to fail me.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      Nope. And everybody will scream cause they payed 70 bucks for a broken game, just like Bethesda is known to produce.

      Just keep looking at the list. Payday 3 is also there. A publisher known for maybe a worse dlc and microtransaction policy than EA with the Sims, but it seems that doesn’t matter a bit.

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    32 years ago

    Preordering is dumb, preordering in 2023 when it’s 50/50 whether any given PC port is going to be a total mess is dumb