Why do you pre order digital games?

in the past, it made a lot of sense to preorder, if you used the trading market (which valve recently killed). i bought witcher 3 for like 16$ or something last year. so i saved a lot. that was maybe 11€ at the time. now i would have to pay 50€.

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But I actually would never pre order anything. Too many broken and buggy games lately. It's also too expensive. I'd rather wait for a good sale.

also, it gets super annoying that every super-pro-core-gamer thinks, it is his duty to keep everyone from preordering. sorry, if that sounds harsh. don't necessarily mean you with that. but we had so many of these threads already, in so many forums. and they escalate so quickly. if you post there and say you like preordering - prepare to be called a dumb idiot. ^^ if you don't like preordering (for understandable reasons), don't do it. but let people their opinions. ;)

Ok, made a thread here, but I hate not having anything to give away to the community here, so I'll just drop an Echo of Souls beta key (you redeem it on Aeria, I think, puzzle)
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who cares dude

havent preorder once

i preordered witcher 3 because i could get it for a sweet price before valve closed off russian trading :D

honestly, a great price or needing to spend credits before they dry up, are the only reason i can think of to preorder something...

Witcher 3 is the only game I preorder, and I did it because I bought the collectors edition, which was super limited. Other than that I would rather wait price dropping.

I also got Batman Arkham Knight preorder by trading, which is nice.

Speaking of Witcher 3: I preordered it almost a year ago, since then all the steam prices in my country have increased dramatically due to currency exchange rate. It's like I got a 50% discount from its current (full) price.

The two games I ever pre-ordered were the PC version of Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2. Although I knew exactly what I was buying by then. For a completely new game… would never pre-order. Although it is funny to see the reactions of people who did for such much-expected flops and bad games like Titanfall, Watch_Dogs, or Destiny, to name a few from recent times.

Nope. No preorders. None. Na-ah. No sir. Not all of them even deserve to be bought on release day, for example, If it's a UBISOFT game - stay the f@&k away from that game for as long as you can, because it usually takes them a month or so to make a game properly playable (while still buggy). It's a sick concept, encouraging devs to release bad / unfinished content, while still bathing in money tube. CoD half-year-before-release preorders payed for as much as a new CoD game development ever needed, and still they make a copy-paste game, even worse than previous one. And after all this CoD's, Colonial Marine's and other s@&ty games people preordered, they never learn and keep giving money for a cute little trailers and game concepts they're seeing. Very few devs can be trusted these days, and yeah, RockStar one of them. But still didn't preorder :D

Pre-orders in the digital world are for the benefit of the publisher, not the consumer.Since indeed, supply is infinite when the game gets released.
In most cases it's really just selling the hype, to bring in money sooner and reduce financial risk that way. And in most cases, the consumer doesn't benefit significantly/at all for buying into the hype.

If you pre-order a digital game, you can pre-load it a week before release. Isn't it good, that when it finally gets released, you can play it immediately, and you don't have to wait for installing from disc or downloading 40-60GBs? I pre-ordered The Evil Within Limited Edition, and it arrived with 4(!) double layer discs (8,5 GB each), and it wanted to install 40GB. It arrived afternoon (1 or 2 PM), and thanks to my "super fast" internet, it took 7-8 hours to download. I had that whole afternoon to play it, but nope. It had to download 20 GBs, plus decompressing and such. Not everybody in this world have super fast internet, that can download a 40-60GB game in an hour or less. So in my opinion, digital Pre-orders are good, because you can play the game (in most cases), right when it comes out.

I preorder if I want to play it as soon as it's released (and if a price is affordable for me), since it's usually slightly cheaper.I could wait few months for a better deal, true, but, sometimes, it's just not worth it. My last preorder was Talos Principle, due to it having a lower price in my regione (EU2) and a -15% discount, it was quite affordable, I really wanted to play it right away so I preordered.

Never pre-order and never pay full price :)

I never preordered a game , and i never will.
Poblishers are just flat out lying to us with CG Trailers and fake promises , and more often then not the result is broken on lunch games , half of the promised things not existing in the game at all ... times worse graphics then shown in the trailers.
OR some buggy pile of crap like that last Assassins creed game was .

So yeah , DONT Pre-Order games...

I preorder from time to time, sometimes you get burned, sometimes everything works out alright.

Main reason for my preorder is the anticipation and the ability to preload stuff. I used to play on console too (360), where another reason for preordering (not in a digital way though) was to ensure to get a copy on release day (I see though that this is a nonconern for digital media). There was a shop that still managed to hand away my preordered GTA 4 copy though, which was kind of a bummer, I never purchased anything from them afterwards.

I don't see into the hype and antihype about preordering itself, people generally should be responsible enough about their purchases to know if something is worth (to them personally) to buy before release or not.

i tend to pre order if i have the disposable income at the time, for instance if ive done a lot of overtime one month. overtime isnt always guaranteed and i might not get any when a game is released so for me it makes sense to buy it when i have the money rather than leave myself short.

Only preordered few games from Russian Steam when it still was cool.

Will never preorder digital game for more than around €25.

I make pre order only if very much want this game

my pre-orders:
1) Grand Theft Auto V (I have long wanted this game on PC)
2) Mortal Kombat X
3) Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
4) Shelter 2 (I like cats...)
5) Resident Evil HD Remaster
6) Resident Evil Revelations 2
7) Witcher 3

Digital games dont have a higher price... and preordering digital games isnt anything different than preordering physical games, now that I think about it, they are different. With digital games you can preload and play the game on the minute the game releases and you dont have to wait for the game to come in the mail.

The only 2 pre orders I did were because I really wanted the game

• GTA V
• Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

It's simple, because I want to... now what kind of games I pre-order... well mainly from devs/publishers I like . Every year I pre-order maybe 2-3 games and yet to regret any of those purchases .. For this year I already got GTA V, was thinking to get Trine 3 but because they went into Early Access I'm skipping and now waiting for SPAZ 2 release.

Honestly, atm I rarely play any games, especially the ones I get on sale xD but pre-ordered games are rushed once released xD