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Can you muppets stop throwing away money on awful companies producing subpar games? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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I propose 2024 is the year of early access games boycott.

Bring back completed games only.

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[–] 93 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If we could all just agree to not preorder, I’ll negotiate from there.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Preordering made sense when games came in nice boxes, and you wanted to be sure to play it on the day of release instead of waiting for restocking. With digital downloads now which are not limited in quantity it is just stupid.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    This, 100%. The only value of preordering is guaranteeing stock of a physical item that threatens to be out of stock if you were to buy it walk-in. In the modern digital age where downloading tens of gigabytes that take up no space, ship near-instantly on demand, and have theoretically infinite supply, preordering is pointless if the actual game itself is all you care about.

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