I love this advice for 99% of games, but I pre-ordered Baldur's Gate III around three years ago now and have been able to play Early Access as a result.
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Same here, but we got to get a demo of the game essentially. So excited for it to release.
What about pre-ordering for pickup? That way you have a guaranteed copy, but don't have to put anything down.
Preordering is 100% why the last console gen was full of half-assed releases. It has to stop.
/c/patientgamers
I don't even play half the games I buy. I just pre-order them so I get the cool goodies that come with the game like art books, metal cases, tapestries, etc.
The last pre-order bonus I got was a pair of socks. That killed my interest in extraneous offers.
I used to do that when I was about ten years younger, now I am mostly trying to get rid of them to save some space as all they do is collect dust on some shelf or box.
Cyberpunk was the nail in my pre-order coffin, fuck those clowns and their shitty releases. I don't want the game to be good and playable 3 years after I bought it.
Oh and for the fan bois if the game was so good when released, why did they have to do a complete overhaul of basically the entire game to make it good?
The release was trash and the game released with as little product as possible while charging people full price.
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