What did you pre-order today? *OP updated* 5/29/17

[PartridgeSenpai]

Pre-ordering is bad.

I'm not sure pre-ordering as a whole is completely bad. Some things are really worth pre-ordering because otherwise you almost certainly won't be able to get one otherwise. For example, the Phoenix Wright Figma I ordered back before Xmas finally came the other day, and I really doubt I'd've been able to get one if I hadn't pre-ordered it. Video games, on the other hand, which have far less pieces to lose than a very pose-able toy, I find are very rarely actually worth pre-ordering.

I just don't like the idea of paying money down on something you have no idea of the quality of. I'd rather wait until after launch and opinions and videos are well and out there to know whether or not a game is worth picking up or not in the first place. Plus with madness like pre-ordering season passes, the entire business culture around pre-ordering video games is becoming so anti-consumer

More importantly, though, with a backlog of games like I've got (still well over a few hundred), I don't have any good reason to be looking at buying new games anyways

[Segata]

^ I never put money down. It's Amazon.

Oh for fucks sake you guys turning nothing into something. None of those were 60 bucks. I don't pre order AAA games. Sine Mora EX is 17 dollars with Prime. 20 bucks without. Battle Chasers is from Darksiders creator Joe Mad...and again 17 dollars with prime. Raiden V is 40 bucks but is the limited first print run that comes with the CD. The 360 version sometimes costs more than that now. Gundam I got with Prime discount. I pre order smaller niche games to support them. Nintendo as well since they stay full price forever.

Now can you all stop derailing please?

I will add to this as a point brought up. Some games waiting on is bad. Xenoblade. Esp JRPGs if you wait can be bad.

[PartridgeSenpai]

I will add to this as a point brought up. Some games waiting on is bad. Xenoblade. Esp JRPGs if you wait can be bad.

Why JRPG's in particular? Because they'll be spoiled for you? Because they get low Western print runs?

[Segata]

I will add to this as a point brought up. Some games waiting on is bad. Xenoblade. Esp JRPGs if you wait can be bad.

Why JRPG's in particular? Because they'll be spoiled for you? Because they get low Western print runs?

I am the only person on this planet who never gives a shit about spoilers. It's because they sometimes get hard to find after release day and get very expensive. Xenoblade did. The Last Story CE did. Ni No Kuni Wizards edition became 500 bucks after launch day. Now for the last time.


Please stop derailing.

Or a mod lock the topic. Jesus sorry I even made it.

[Sarge]

Because they get low Western print runs?

This, usually.

Speaking of JRPGs, I noticed that the price on Bravely Default is up in GameStop, it's actually at like $45, which is above the original retail price!

In general, niche titles are better to grab sooner than later, but if I grabbed every niche title I was interested in, I'd be out of money in a hurry!

As for derailing, there's nothing wrong with a little discussion along the way. We tend to derail a lot around these parts. It's more natural to let the discussions flow rather than shut things down entirely. Although it does get a little weird when we start talking about what clothing we wear in our homes...

Short version: Just roll with it!

[Segata]

This isn't "a little discussion" the tntire topic has been taken over so I may as well just edit the first post and topic title into something else.

[Sarge]

C'mon, man, it'll normalize after everyone gets in their thoughts on whether one should pre-order or not. Don't give up that fast on it!

[marurun]

Conversations go their own ways here, sometimes. At least people are talking about pre-orders. Hopefully they'll stop debating the merits soon. And you missed the big preorder posts when the Switch dropped.

[Sarge]

Yup. I pre-ordered both my Switch (first console I've ever done that with) and Zelda. I don't pre-order as much as I used to, though. I'm super-patient about AAA games.

That being said, I guess you can sorta chalk up my Kickstarter/Indiegogo project backings. I've got Bloodstained and Indivisible on tap. I've also got Paprium, the Genesis beat-'em-up from Watermelon, in the queue. And I'm waiting for Cosmic Star Heroine and Wonder Boy: Dragon's Trap to be available via Limited Run.

[Segata]

OP updated but not putting spoilers on those large pics. Since it was assumed these were AAA 60 dollar games I had to put money down on. They are not.