Maybe not too patient but rn I'm playing Assassin's creed Origins (2017) I bought for €14. I don't often have time to play but when I do I'm really enjoying it! Before this I was playing Shadow of Mordor (2014).
I have to imagine it's a holdover impulse from the days of physical media where stores had limited copies. Why anyone would preorder a digital download is beyond me, unless there are some perks.
i would preorder games from a studio i like to boost their capital while they are still developing. it seems better than them having a lower budget or getting shady investors.
but somehow those who are worthy are the same folk who dont do preorders😂
The last time I preordered a game, I had played a leaked alpha build for a while before release, for like 40 hours. It was pretty broken, but it was a lot of fun, so I figured it was fair to pay for the game already.
I'd say there are very exceptional cases where it isn't absurd to preorder, but those are less than 1% of all preorders that actually take place.
The only game I preordered was Monster Hunter Rise. They offered a demo that I played longer than most games currently in my library and it was polished and showed no performance issues. It showed me that it was the game I wanted it to be. So I nabbed it for a preorder discount deal from a 3rd party, legit storefront to save some cash. And it was my favorite of the series and my most played individual title.
Maybe that’s all rationalization of something I still shouldn’t have done, but if you are discerning, it works.
Depends on if it's a series I'm heavily invested in or a dev I really want to support. I'm massively into the trails of series and if I could preorder those I would.
Same. I haven't played as long as you as I think but I'm not really an mmo person as I get bored after a few weeks with most but FFXIV has kept me interested for years. And I'm really attached to my WoL at this point and I want to see where the journey goes.
If I want to play on release day, I would preorder to preinstall the game while I am working so I can play it when I get home. Also, preorders usually have bonus items, like physical stuff.
I preordered the collectors edition of Elden Ring, and White Snow edition of NieR Automata, for example. Both came with a wide variety of various physical goods that were exclusive to those preorder editions.
not only that, waiting means you can actually run the damn thing on your hardware, you're not effectively playing an early access release, and there's a matured community around it for mods and whatnot.
Gotta keep that PC to play some Windows games right?
I did something dumb that I don’t regret yet, put my PC budget into a more powerful Mac when GPTK came out. I surely can’t play all games but so far I’m really satisfied.
Running Mixtral-7x8B_Q4 on a laptop wasn’t something I was expecting to be able to do :)
So I can’t say I got the best gaming rig for sure, but professionally speaking this has been an absolute blast.
If I remember correctly M1 was about as powerful as a 1050 when it came out (at least on native games). Are you happy with your M2 Air? I managed to play CP77 on my wife’s one, but since it only has 8Gb of RAM it crashed just after the meeting with Jackie Welles.
TBH, I miss a good macgaming sub on Lemmy. At a least I have an occasion to laugh of myself from time to time
Wait a year post release, get it on sale, put it in the backlog with all the others, play your one comfort game and doomscroll your preferred social media feeds instead of ever playing it
I really don't understand the (clearly faulty) logic that OP is going by here. Games becoming officially free is not common at all. I'm sitting here trying to understand how this image and post were made, and the only conclusion I can come to is pure idiocy and ignorance. Either you pirate the game, which is possible on the day of release for 99% of games, or it's given away in some way which doesn't happen at all for 99% of games. There's just nothing that this is based on, it's so weird.