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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People will never learn to not preorder games. I have no hope for humanity at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The people that preorder clearly aren’t listening

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They never learn do they ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The funniest thing is seeing the rage from Star Citizen fanboys about all this. They keep saying "it'll be buggy and awful on release" like SC isn't already. I know with Bethesda, they'll fix it up and the modders will go wild with patches and add ins, delivering all the stuff Chris Roberts said they would. Meanwhile, I try and play Star Citizen and i've died or failed a mission due to glitches any time i've tried to play this past week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do not preorder ffs...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

won't preorder, but i so do hope that it's gonna be good and worth the wait ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

  • Pun unintended.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I noticed that as well, made me laugh lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Stop preordering omg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No way am I going to pre-order a game in this era of half baked releases and especially not a game from Bethesda which is as well known for their rampant bugs as their compelling gameplay

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It looks good in the marketing (it always does) but we should all remember that it’s Bethesda making this. Then again, I can’t even name a developer that I would say “hell yeah, this is gonna be awesome!” at this point. The very sad state of the industry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

DON'T PREORDER SHIT YOU STUPID

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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