• Yrt@feddit.de
      2·
      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.

    • Prof. Sweetlove@beehaw.org
      2·
      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.

    • mustyOrange@beehaw.org
      4·
      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

    • SenorBolsa@beehaw.org
      3·
      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.

      • hallowlik@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I feel like mods would liven those planets up, but even then, I’m still expecting starfield to be very buggy.

        • SenorBolsa@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The only thing they showed as a quest there was collecting bear asses from generic dialog with a scientist (but possibly there’s more to it) so that’s not a great sign. I can live with bugginess but if the content isn’t compelling why am I playing? if the content is compelling enough I’ll deal with a lot of bugs.

          and yeah I think there might be a lot of cool mods around adding content to spawn on these planets if the structure of the game allows it. It would allow modders to create smaller self contained one shots basically without worrying about how it all fits into the rest of the game world.

      • Nymphioxetine@beehaw.org
        3·
        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

  • squid@feddit.uk
    3·
    1 year ago

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

  • ngwoo@beehaw.org
    3·
    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

  • Locrin@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I don’t really care that people throw away their money like this. Because I am now always looking forward to the always very entertaining youtube clips of how much off a disaster the lastet AAA videogame release is.

  • Mars@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    Fellas! Why are games today so buggy! Why are they incomplete? I just don’t understand!!!‽‽???

  • bbbutch@feddit.de
    2·
    1 year ago

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

  • GhostMagician@beehaw.org
    2·
    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?

  • crisisingot@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    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

  • teflocarbon@lemmy.world
    2·
    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.

  • EmergingDystopia@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    This have looks fabulous to me, but there’s no way I’m preordering. I don’t have a lot of experience with Bethesda, but I thought the overall picture painted was a pretty gorgeous one. Hopefully they can deliver. That being said, I just started playing Fallout76 about two weeks ago, so I don’t mind waiting until they work sone things out. Overall though, what they are promising looks incredible. Probably too good to be true :)