• borari
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    1 year ago

    Despite their issues I put hundreds of hours into each one and enjoyed them all. I see no reason to think this won’t be the same, and have no problem betting $70 on it.

    Really the issue here is that there are very few reasons to hand a company your money before they are prepared to deliver you a product. There are even fewer reasons when the product is most likely going to be purchased and delivered digitally, since there is zero chance the product will be sold out. When a game is being developed by Microsoft-owned Bethesda, they don’t need preorder money to finish the game.

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      I mean if you’re just going to play the game immediately on launch without looking at anything the moment the game is released there isn’t a difference between pre-ordering and buying it the second it’s available for download.

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      But I see no reason not to hand the money over since I’ve already made up my mind to buy the product. If they don’t deliver the product, then I should get a refund. If they deliver a product so terrible I regret buying it, well, that’s on me and I won’t be so quick to do it again. But based on past history I have faith the game will be a little rough but I will still enjoy it, so why not spend the money now?

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        1 year ago

        You shouldn’t spend the money now because normalizing payment to a corporation worth $2.47 trillion for future services rendered is a terrible thing to do.