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u/cortez_brosefski 14h ago
Look, preordering made some sense 20 years ago when you had to worry about stores literally running out of copies of the game. Plus, places like GameStop let you reserve a preorder with like 5 bucks and you could slowly pay the full price over months.
Neither of those apply to modern games bought through online stores. There is no reason to preorder games nowadays.
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u/TheDominator09 13h ago
Literally the only thing they give you is a skin pack or two and that's it.
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u/Depressed_Cat6 13h ago
Usually not worth it when you have a gajillion more skins in the game
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u/Satyr121 13h ago
And plus half the time the pre order bonuses get released in another edition of the game later
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u/ThirtyThree111 13h ago
yeah, better to wait a year or two for some "game of the year edition" or some shit, then wait another couple years for that to go on sale on steam
patient gamers rise
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u/ReddBroccoli 12h ago
That's what I do.
Really looking forward to checking out a new game this weekend called Skyram or Shyrim, something like that. I saw it had a couple positive reviews.
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u/AtmosphereSuitable31 11h ago
Yeah for real just this year I got to buy some awesome new games. Red head temptation or something like that and a decipher funk or punk or something anyway great games this year.
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u/BonkerBleedy 11h ago
I legitimately haven't bought Skyrim yet. Is it stable enough?
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u/ReddBroccoli 11h ago
It's a Bethesda game my friend. There are just some things you'll never wait long enough for
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u/Cosmic_Quasar 12h ago edited 12h ago
And sometimes they're just plain dumb! I was just thinking about how Fable 2 had a Halo crossover where you could wear a medieval version of Spartan armor. It was just so out of place and broke immersion.
Edit: wow, I honestly didn't think this was controversial lol. TIL
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u/cortez_brosefski 12h ago
I'm surprised at the down votes as well lol. I agree with you, that was stupid and broke immersion. A lot of these pre order bonuses are either immersion breaking or overpowered and ruin the balance in the early game
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u/Cosmic_Quasar 12h ago
Yeah, these days I just save the OP stuff until my second run after doing just a base game run, as the design intended. But I don't replay many games these days lol.
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u/cortez_brosefski 12h ago
That's a good philosophy, but sometimes it doesn't even make it clear what the OP stuff is. I don't always want to study all the items in the game, I just wanna play it. But also yeah, a lot of games aren't really made to be replayed now either. It's either some live service thing or they put little to no effort into NG+ or second playthroughs
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u/cortez_brosefski 13h ago
It's ridiculous, and it's just shit they should include in the base game anyway.
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u/Dank_Turtle 12h ago
You were cooked if you didn't pre order back then. I remember when Halo 2 came out I had to wait about a month for my pre order to come in. One set of cousins got it first and we were at their house almost daily till the whole family had copies.
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u/cortez_brosefski 12h ago
Yeah, it was pretty necessary at that time. I remember having to wait like 3 months to finally find a copy of MW2. But times are a lot different now
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u/IXrobocopXI 12h ago
Me, waiting until a game can be emulated on my phone:
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u/cortez_brosefski 12h ago
Sorry, high IQ outliers are being removed from the data for skewing the results
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u/Exportxxx 12h ago edited 12h ago
The only reason to preorder now for digital is to pre download the game so U can play it the min it goes live.
Even then not worth it
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u/Terrible_Donkey_8290 12h ago
And even then you could just wait like, the day before and see what the reviews are shaping up to be.
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u/cortez_brosefski 12h ago
Yeah, I used to have really bad Internet so I can see that point. But it's still just such a risk. There's no such thing as a sure thing good game nowadays. With games costing upwards of $100, it's too big of a risk to take without seeing real, raw, unedited and uncurated gameplay
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u/handbanana42 8h ago
Preloading a game shouldn't require preordering anyways.
It is digital.
They lose nothing if you predownload but can't play because you don't have a license, besides a few cents of bandwidth.
If anything, that predownload might incentivize you to buy it on release.
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u/kneadthedough 12h ago
Australian here. Theres a somewhat (global context) niche sport called Aussie rules footy (afl).
An Indy studio developed a game called pro jank footy which is like a mix of afl and Mario cart.
I preordered it because I thought it sounded like a fun concept and wanted to help the studio out with cashflow/developing the game.
I think that is a circumstance when preordering a digital product makes sense. But it’s more like a “kickstarter” project than what preordering was 20 years ago or whatever.
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u/cortez_brosefski 12h ago
Good point mate, I didn't really consider that. In that case it does absolutely make sense, but I'm sure you're aware of the risks and are willing to accept them.
That honestly sounds like a fun game. What's it called, did it come out? As an American football fan, I love Aussie punters
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u/Glowingtomato 12h ago
Yeah I've preordered some more niche games like Farming Simulator and Snowrunner to show support and so they keep making more games.
I don't bother for more major games
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u/Lowkey_Arki 10h ago
and modern games normally come out with bugs, and the prices gets lowered or gets a sale, its seriously better to just wait
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u/LionHeartedLXVI This flair doesn't exist 12h ago
Personally, I like my bills paid off early (I’m years ahead on my mortgages), so it can make sense for me, although I’ve only preordered one game in the last 8 years.
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u/cortez_brosefski 12h ago
That's awesome dude. If you're that fiscally literate and careful, then do whatever you want. But there's a lot of people that are choosing between these $70 games and shit like oil changes. It sucks for them to make that sacrifice and then the game turns out to be bad
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u/Vox_SFX 12h ago
It's the tradition and name of it at this point. That's why they always have to add in a bunch of shit that doesn't matter or that you'd have to grind a shit ton for in order to get normally.
The fact is people have gotten illiterate across the board, and that includes media literacy like understanding what a pre-order actually is nowadays.
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u/Negative_Bar_9734 3h ago
People love calling things scams until they encounter an actual scam, then its all "woohoo, pre-orders were just announced! Got my copy!"
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u/adult_on_paper 12h ago
Correct. Pre ordering is why we get broken, unfinished games, and/or games that are just a skeleton with the meat ripped out and sold separately as DLC
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u/Working-Contest-3730 12h ago
I don’t get why people keep preordering. It’s the same price if you buy it the day of, or the day after or a week later. Cyberpunk burned me, and I’ll never fall for that trap ever again.
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u/hexthejester 14h ago
Congratulations. You figured out why you shouldn't pre-order a digital product
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u/TheWhereHouse6920 13h ago
I will absolutely buy Wolverine in the bargain bin
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u/Zealousideal_Gap1194 13h ago
On Steam for pennies after PlayStation backtracks on PC releases trying recoup something
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u/Rexusus 11h ago
It’ll be free on PS+ by the spring
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u/handbanana42 7h ago
From the reviews so far, not sure I even care. I'll just play Spider-Man 2 again or go to my back catalogue.
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u/MacaroniMeatMachine 12h ago
Just don't preorder anything lmao, wait for launch reviews and social media posts from the jabronis that did pre-order. Then you know for real if it's worth your money.
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u/kilertree 13h ago
I believe he can still cancel his pre-order
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u/Rexusus 11h ago
If you pre-ordered, you can return it anytime before release, or within 14 days of purchase if that window is after release, so far as long as you didn’t download the game.
I know because I got a Pro for this and GTA VI, ended up refunding the preorder and gonna get Control Resonant on the 24th
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u/handbanana42 7h ago
Hope everyone sees this. Not just for a specific game, but in general. At least it is a tiny capitulation to all this dumb pre-order nonsense. If the game is bad, refund it.
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u/adamb863 Yo dawg I heard you like 13h ago
I learned that the hard way when I pre ordered Just Cause 4 years ago
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u/BurntFlea 12h ago
I learned when I preordered Too Human lmao. Not even joking. Probably the worst game I ever played.
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u/Appropriate-Yak-3814 11h ago
Just Cause 3 was peak, they really fucked up with 4 tho. So boring.
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u/JustOneSock 13h ago
If you still preordering in 2026 you deserve it
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u/ActuallyACereal 6h ago
The “No Preorder” advice has been going on for 20 years and I’m not even old enough to play and yet people still does that and it gets worse when they do it digitally lol.
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u/tommangan7 6h ago
Preordering halo 3 in 2007 would have saved me a lot of running around stores and having to shell out £10 extra for the steel book version as the last copy my local store had. That's about the last time it mattered for me.
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u/Gold_Weakness1157 13h ago
Honestly pre order services no purpose, the game will always be there
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u/Zarathoostrian 14h ago
People preorder games?
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u/playteckAqua 13h ago
Pre orders WAS fine because stocks might be not enough and you wanna get it early before then
But this the digital age now so yeah its stupid as shit, the extra stuffs are always pretty mid too
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u/Zarathoostrian 11h ago
Marvel midnight suns is like 10 bucks at the moment, you can play as wolverine. Turn based strategy from the guys who made X-COM > generic beat em up.
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u/quayle-man 13h ago
Who cares? Just because others don’t like a game, doesn’t mean you won’t.
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u/MetalBeast89 8h ago
The amount of games that have reviewed poorly, I've ended up enjoying immensely, is a lot. I never trust reviews anymore, I watch spoiler free gameplay and decide for myself there.
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u/CrescentWolves1995 10h ago
Yeah this should be higher. Plus alot has nothing to do with the actual game I heard but more with Sony
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u/Bignate2001 8h ago
I've heard the opposite, that Sony's suggestions to remove the hand-holding were brushed off by insomniac.
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u/handbanana42 7h ago
You played the game? If so, far.
If you're preordering on blind faith, what is your point?
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u/toxicgloo Smol pp 12h ago
Pre-ordering ain't worth it no more. You used to get a limited edition version of the game with extra stuff and good deals on the season pass, but those days are long gone.
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u/MoonSentinel95 11h ago
At this point, people should have already understood why pre-ordering is not a good idea?
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u/primordialWoe 56m ago
Preordering is yet another cancerous industry practice that exists solely to exploit the players impulsiveness.
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u/Official_Zach55 8h ago
Im stills gonna play it. A linnier action games sounds nice.
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u/Impressive_Rock9659 5h ago
That's what ya get for pre-ordering. Maybe it'll teach ya, but if it didn't teach gamers for the last 15 years after all the scams and disasters, then I doubt this one will too.
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u/Drake_Lebowski 13h ago
I think the backlash is due to 2 reasons
It is not as good as spiderman games. Kind of like supergirl situation
Pushback against sony.
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u/Startled_Pancakes 10h ago
I mean 77 score is still not a bad game, just not as good as people were expecting.
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u/Excellent-Gold1905 8h ago
It babies you. You let out the single most important and relevant point.
It has QTE that cannot be failed, that auto complete if you don't press any buttons. It has many segments of the game that are literally just "hold the stick forward". As if a giant glowing line telling you were to go (in a linear action game) wasn't enough, they also have waypoints showing up to highlight the giant glowing line. Thats even ignoring the more "subtle" stuff like yellow paint and the like.
So you have a "mature" rated game with blood, gore, and "mature themes" story wise. Yet its designed to be played by a handicapped toddler who has never played a video game. Not every game needs to be a Fromsoft "difficult" game, yet at the same time games need to provide SOME friction or just becomes "interactive media" and not a game and Wolverine has clearly drifted too far away from being a "game".
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u/clitmasher69 7h ago
I hate when i can't tell if i'm still in the tutorial phase or if the game is gonna railroad me all the way to the end. It's a huge pet peeve of mine in VR games too
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u/GoatyButt 8h ago
Thank you. I was listening to a podcast (snark tank) where one of the hosts has another playstation oriented podcast, and he gets early press copies of some games, and he listed a few shitty issues with the game. In qtes if you even press the wrong button, it makes no difference. About halfway through the game it just becomes so boring and pointless that he just kinda dissociated and just finished the game out of obligation. Hitting enemies doesn't feel satisfying. It apparently felt like a game that "had a lot of problems" in development, and given the development time, didn't end up feeling like it had even been developed for that long. In the end he was like "oh my god. Is this game..... Bad.....?" He and his fellow podcast hosts had been so excited for this game for so long, hoping it would be like "x-men origins: wolverine" from a while ago. Turns out it's kind of a maybe play it once, underwhelming, don't bother ever replaying it kind of game. Typical. Figures. Sucks. But I mean that's games these days I guess. Dude said it "wasn't as bad as like a 5/10 or anything", but I think he was just trying to be nice. Sounds like a half shit game not worth the time.
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u/Independent_Mud2794 9h ago
Pushback against Sony isn’t real in the real world, it’s an internet thing. Consoles were sold out everywhere in the magical month of boycotts and blackouts.
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u/jirenfan9 13h ago
I only preorder physical games when there’s also an appealing pre-order bonus + it’s a game I’m going to play 100% even if turns out bad.
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u/Deliriousious Breaking EU Laws 13h ago
It’s digital.
The whole point of pre ordering a PHYSICAL game is because there is only a limited amount of PHYSICAL stock.
In this day and age, pre ordering anything makes no sense. Just let it release, wait a day or two, check out reviews, then go buy it.
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u/Spark818 12h ago
https://youtu.be/AV69DyOuzbE?si=mxYAMcD3f5_pI7px Cartman put it nicely about pre ordering
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u/BlckSm12 Loves GameStonk 4h ago
yeah because the store is gonna run out of digital copies, good job dude
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u/9447044 13h ago
I pre-ordered Halo Wars. I figured it was going to be Halo4.
I paid an extra $5 for it
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u/misslizzy405 13h ago
this is too real lol the anticipation followed by the backlash is wild, hope it turns out better than expected
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u/killabee163 13h ago
I pre-order games if I know for absolute certain I'll like the game. Mainly because I like that it auto downloads while im at work and I can just come home and play it. Plus why should anyone else care?
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u/jeffynibbles70 13h ago
Me who got it for my bday and I don't care because I am gonna fight a big robot
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u/PointsOfXP 10h ago
You preordered it for a reason. Don't let a bunch of nerds tell you what's good or not
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u/Spotlight_James 10h ago
People expect way too much from somethings. I wasn't waiting to see a Emmy award winning story or anything.
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u/Helldiver_of_Mars 7h ago
Eh it's only getting shit on cause the target audience appears to be slow people who can figure which direction is forward. Just don't listen to it.
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u/mazbro74 13h ago
Who in their right mind pre-ordered games?
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u/stache1313 12h ago
I can understand pre-ordering special editions. Especially with all those damn scalpers ruining everything! May they lie in hell next to the child molesters and people who talk in the theatre!
I could even see pre-ordering physical copies. (Fuck those scalpers.)
But for a digital copy. Why? Their not going to run out of digital copies. (Get fucked scalper that pre-ordered 500 copies of GTA VI.)
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u/Greg-Abbott 13h ago
I read all the comments and there's zero context here. What's happening?
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u/Fake_Diesel 10h ago
Wolverine released to mid reviews from almost all of the big sites. People are dogging on it because it looks boring and overly handholdy.
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u/Greg-Abbott 4h ago
Fuck, that really sucks. The early footage looked so cool and was honestly gonna be my excuse for buying a new console. I'm still using an OG Xbox One I bought in 2014.
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u/Revolutionary_Bad965 12h ago
Never preorder a game you don’t have enough information to make an opinion on
With that said, don’t be so quick to take every reviewer’s word on the quality of the game. Some ppl benefit from overly hating on games, some from dickriding them, and some are just incompetent. You gotta kinda look at all of them and determine if it’s still for you or not
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u/crattigan271 12h ago
Getting cooked yet it hasn’t even been released yet, play the game yourself and stop listening to people on twitter
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u/thesteadfast1 11h ago
I'm ignoring all reviews, content videos, everything. Not even reading the comments here. Modern day wolverine game is awesome. I'm going in blind. Social media and influencers have ruined gaming.
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u/teaboi05 9h ago
I mean it's insomniac. Their QTEs in Spider-Man were a meme before that. Nonetheless people liked the game (idk, I don't have ps and didn't bought ports) and people love wolverine. Have fun playing it!
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u/JazzyDK5001 12h ago
Sucks to be those people. I learned my lesson on preordering video games after the bullshit that was Sparking Zero. Ironically enough was also the one video game I ever pre-ordered. Pre Order Bonuses are a plague to gaming.
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u/NeonCookies599 12h ago
So many people here offering their advice on not pre-ordering that was never asked for by anyone lol
It's 2026, pretty sure you can assume that if someone is still pre-ordering a game it's just cause they want to
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u/Familiar-Gap-7894 10h ago
Preordering a digital game is idiotic and people that do it deserve to lose their money.
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u/Spotlight_James 10h ago
They gotta bring back game demos like for real to alleviate a lot of this.
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u/-FalseProfessor- 13h ago
Can’t even return it because Sony doesn’t let you if the game was pre-loaded.
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u/Marsrover112 9h ago
Why would you pre-order stuff anymore what are you afraid theyre gonna run out of digital copies?
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u/FlyingSquirelOi 7h ago
No I’m gonna play it day one so may as well pre order it
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u/AskinggAlesana 13h ago
I bet you 95% of the people saying “This is why you never preorder” in here have GTAVI preordered lmfao.
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u/TheIJDGuy Selling Stonks for CASH MONEY 13h ago
I've never preordered a thing in my life! I'm waiting patiently for GTA 6 to come out to then decide if I watch for it to go on sale
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u/londonbaj 8h ago
WHY ARE YOU PRE ORDERING ONLINE GAMES
WHY ARE YOU PRE ORDERING ONLINE GAMES
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u/Waaytoomanytakenames 5h ago
Stanczyc would not preorder.
The dude in the picture was one of the smartest people at the time. Search for his name on google because his history is super interesting.
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u/One-Cup-2002 12h ago
I don't care.
Wolverine is one of my favorite superheroes of all time. When I get the money, I'm going to buy the game, and I'll enjoy myself immensely.
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u/Nagesh_yelma 12h ago
I don't support preorders but why are you worried about people's opinion on the internet if you think you like the game?
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u/HououinKakyouma 11h ago
Haha me when I took the day off work to play Fallout 76…what a piece of shit that was
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u/RooMan7223 11h ago
It did look like a safe preorder though. Insomniac and Wolverine, what could go wrong? Turns out a lot
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u/raddoubleoh 11h ago
I mean, you gotta admit a $300M budget $70 cost glorified arcade brawler is insane.
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u/Legitimate_q 1h ago
Imagine having access to the internet, USING REDDIT, and still pre ordering. You really can lead a horse to water...
If you want to throw away your money ill drop my zelle in ur dms, i could use some lunch today.
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u/BattleToaster68 42m ago
I learned my lesson with cyberpunk. I went from the person who preorders the biggest edition with all dlc to the person who'd rather wait 5 years for it to be on sale for 20 bucks
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u/Lunarath 11h ago
Stop letting other people influence your enjoyment of things you like. There are plenty of people who loved Wolverine, and it's completely okay to enjoy things even if most people don't like it.
I'd say all these people thrashing the game before it's even out and they've tried it themselves are real fucking weirdos. Reminds me of the GTA 6 drama, which is also fueled by some real freaks.
I'm not gonna play it regardless because it's a PS5 exclusive, but I've loved many games with bad public reception.
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u/PuertoricanDude88 12h ago edited 3h ago
A lot of people in the comment section live in a cave it seems. Yes, pre ordering is still a thing, it didn’t end just because you stop.
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u/Agreeable-Repair8285 11h ago
Holy crap I didn’t know people hate pre ordering digital so much. I pre ordered digitally & I don’t feel like a clown. 😂😂I’m excited to play Wolverine!
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u/RainbowNugget24 Plays MineCraft and not FortNite 13h ago
The only reason i preordered wolverine, is because I didn't wanna pay $129aud for a standard copy, so i paid $99
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u/BabyFaceKnees 4h ago
99% of games get cooked on socials because everyone hates everything nowadays
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u/Ghost_Kamakazie 2h ago
Spiderman 2 was so bad it made me lose interest in anything insomniac makes
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u/Yurei_UB 1h ago
Bro such a big flop. I had only gotten to where Harry showed Peter what happened to him. I was so done after a side mission had me go to a university and help some dude ask his boyfriend out to a dance. I was already having griefs with the game and tried to push through but that last straw broke the camel's back.
Id rather play Miles Morales again and save Spiderman the cat.
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u/Sad-Independent-6897 14h ago
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