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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        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

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    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

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

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

    • Pun unintended.
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      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

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    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?

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    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.

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    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.

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    Another proof for publishers that they only need big promises and nice trailers to sell their game, nevermind the state they ship it in

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