What do you think about all these "pre-order" games?
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(73 votes)I'm really careful about buying those games
(4 votes)I'll buy anything that has some good screens
(151 votes)I only buy when it's certain that the game will be good
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I never pre-ordered anything online, and the truth is i never bought either!Box or nothing all the way! :D The only games i wanted to pre-order were the games i really wanted and thought are good an had a nice bonus, not just a couple of skins and so on!
You wouldn't believe how much pre-order/pre-purchase deals can help in the development of a game, especially in projects like the ones found here.
I only pre-order games if I know they're coming out, they've shown enough content for me to have formed an opinion on it.
And if they have some great deal like getting one of their previous games or some fancy extra like that is usually a plus :).
I only buy ANY game when I'm sure it will be good... pre-order or not. I'll watch YouTube vids and play demos until I feel like it's gonna kick butt. Pre-ordering and buying after release is the same to me because of it.
I have been on both ends of this one: Cortex command is a huge bad buy for me (no progress in like over a year) and minecraft, which has pretty much already given me most of the fun i need from it, survival multiplayer with just be a pleasant surprise whenever it shows up!
Pre-ordering is a bit low-minded for a empty wallet. First of all I'll play demo to decide worth the game my money or not. And even a sequels of a great game may be a total crap (or maybe to different for my tastes - look at splinter cell series, at a start it was high-intellegent stealth, and Conviction is a brutal stupid action). And if there is no demo-version... I'll steal it from torrents to try before buy (or not) :DDD (I won't blind buy anything). Maybe I'm a cheap bastard, but my job (I'm russian) gives me lesser than I can spent even on food... so I don't wanna to eventually buy game I won't like (I gotta choose titles very carefully, and not following some expensive and extensive PR).
#1 and #3 could each have been my answer. They're tightly correlated.