After the debacle that was Destiny 2, which I pre-ordered for $100 (which was a lot back then), I swore off ever pre-ordering games ever again. However Starfield is out soon, and I have been dying to play it it’s the whole reason I bought my Series X. So, do I preorder it?
No. You don’t preorder it.
The only reason why preordering was a thing to begin with was to secure last minute funding for small devs to buy the infrastructure they would need to support their game after release.
Starfield is not made by a small dev studio. They have billions of dollars behind them and preordering will not impact the course of its release, nor will preordering ‘reward the developers’, as they are paid in fixed wages and have no financial stake in its success beyond maybe a tiny token bonus. (This is also why we consider Piracy justifiable for non-indie games. )
There will be no material benefit for you to preorder vs buying once the game is released and public opinions on its state become available.
P.S, you’re on Lemmygrad. You’re not going to get a different answer.
I definitely don’t know all the ins and outs of lemmygrad, but I think I have gotten the correct answers, including this one in particular
At the risk of explaining the context of the comment you responded to where it may be unnecessary…
Lemmygrad is an explicitly Marxist instance of the Fediverse. A big part of Marxism is practicing dialectical materialism. Put simply, the purpose of practicing this is to look at the whole picture and the opposing forces at play in order to understand our world. What forces drive change and why do they drive change? How do we think these forces and changes will affect the world we live in and how can we actually make any meaningful difference in our world?
The user above is saying you won’t get another answer here because when we look at how preorders for games operate, why companies offer preorders, and what benefits you get from preordering (why you would preorder a game), the logical conclusion is that not only is there (usually) no benefit for the consumer to preorder a digital game these days, but also that preordering a digital game actually hurts the consumer because it’s encourages bad behavior from the company.
Hopefully that clears things up and I did a decent job greatly simplifying the concepts of dialectical materialism here. Many of us think that studying the world in this manner leads us as close to understanding the truth as possible and that we can use this logic to make the world a better version of itself. Ultimately, these concepts are at the heart of Marxism and it is Marxist theory that lays down the path for how to achieve communism.
All the other “ins and outs” you need to know about Lemmygrad: Come here and participate in discussions in good faith and you will be treated well even if we disagree with you. Come here and participate in discussions in bad faith and you will be ridiculed relentlessly.
Please, comrades, feel free to correct me here if I got something wrong.