Please Don't Preorder This...
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Mutahar talks about Pre-Orders and the tech demo of The Witcher 4.
Controversial opinion:
Pre-ordering or not make no difference.
You can search for it, in 2014 they have reports of a declining in pre-orders industry wide, they don't give numbers of pre-orders but even if you look at the ranking of sold games in online platforms people buy more days after the release than before or in day of the release.
The boycott of pre-order kinda of worked, more people avoid pre-ordering than before and did that make any difference in the quality of game release? Hell no, they still release game with bugs, not finished with need of day one patches, the entire boycott made 0 impact on this shit.
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but now you get special armor that's relevant for a whole 10 minutes of game time.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I get to play 3 days early, bug test and pay you £80? Oh boy.... sign me up!
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Mutahar talks about Pre-Orders and the tech demo of The Witcher 4.
Don't preorder what? The title is missing something lol
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Don't preorder what? The title is missing something lol
wrote last edited by [email protected]the principle applies to literally all games anyway, but the youtuber almost certainly did that to get clicks.
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Controversial opinion:
Pre-ordering or not make no difference.
You can search for it, in 2014 they have reports of a declining in pre-orders industry wide, they don't give numbers of pre-orders but even if you look at the ranking of sold games in online platforms people buy more days after the release than before or in day of the release.
The boycott of pre-order kinda of worked, more people avoid pre-ordering than before and did that make any difference in the quality of game release? Hell no, they still release game with bugs, not finished with need of day one patches, the entire boycott made 0 impact on this shit.
wrote last edited by [email protected]i think you are misunderstanding the point of the no preorder movement. There never should have been an expectation for it to improve the Day 1 quality of game releases.
The main benefit of not preordering is consumer protection, so we can judge a game's quality after people who we trust have played and review it. That protection is worth more than whatever paltry nonsense publishers bundle with preorders.
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Mutahar talks about Pre-Orders and the tech demo of The Witcher 4.
Mutahar is a fucking moron.
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Mutahar talks about Pre-Orders and the tech demo of The Witcher 4.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Who's this idiot and why does anything he say matter?
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there isnt a limited stock; these are digital goods. there is no point in preordering.
What about horse armor though?
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Controversial opinion:
Pre-ordering or not make no difference.
You can search for it, in 2014 they have reports of a declining in pre-orders industry wide, they don't give numbers of pre-orders but even if you look at the ranking of sold games in online platforms people buy more days after the release than before or in day of the release.
The boycott of pre-order kinda of worked, more people avoid pre-ordering than before and did that make any difference in the quality of game release? Hell no, they still release game with bugs, not finished with need of day one patches, the entire boycott made 0 impact on this shit.
The difference is that if you don't preorder a shitty game you won't hate yourself afterwards.
This effect is hard to quantify in numbers, but it is very much real.
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i think you are misunderstanding the point of the no preorder movement. There never should have been an expectation for it to improve the Day 1 quality of game releases.
The main benefit of not preordering is consumer protection, so we can judge a game's quality after people who we trust have played and review it. That protection is worth more than whatever paltry nonsense publishers bundle with preorders.
i think you are misunderstanding the point of the no preorder movement. There never should have been an expectation for it to improve the Day 1 quality of game releases.
And many other articles or reddit discussions about the topic. That's what game journalist told the gamers and what many believe. The consumer protection was always the part that made sense, but they tried to push this idea of we could fix the broken release culture by not pre-ordering.
