Preordering - I think I shall not

Supasaru · Feb 11, 2011

So... preordering...

I pay someone early to not receive the game until after launch...
....while a thousand people are playing the game on JustinTV a month in advance.

And this isn't just for mvc3... same thing happened for SSFIV, BBCS, BBCT, DR2... pretty much every game I've ever thought about preordering for the last year.

Someone hook me up with a scalper in Chicago. I'll pay an extra $20-40 to play a month early.

cannonball · Feb 11, 2011

I'm with ya. I never pre-order games. I'm happy driving to best buy on release day and playing it that day. Why worry about (or pay) shipping?

I can understand pre-ordering online to get some bonus material you just can't live without, but other than that I don't see the point. And I definitely wouldn't expect to be playing it on day one.

Lagduf · Feb 11, 2011

I pre-order to get the bonus content. On big name releases they always have enough copies on release day so if there no bonus I just get it on release day.

In my town there aren't really a lot of places to get video games. I pre-order a lot at best buy because you get bonus reward points a lot of times (or even free gift cards depending on the purchase) so I save $10-20 on a game a couple times out of the year.

I've pre-ordered firearm parts before :emb:

jon713 · Feb 11, 2011

I haven't pre-ordered a game since Mortal Kombat II on the SNES. Just to much of a hassle.

jon713 · Feb 11, 2011

Lagduf said:
I've pre-ordered firearm parts before

WoodyXP · Feb 11, 2011

Pre-order only seems to work when buying imports that don't have any stateside release date scheduled.

Ghost-Dog · Feb 11, 2011

I preorder with Amazon to save myself from having to wait on shipping. Usually they get the game to me on release day, so it's comvenient.

Aside from that, I prefer to only preorder special or limited editions in store. I still dislike the overall idea though.

I have a feeling Amazon is going to be getting most of my gaming dollar from here on out. At least they don't bug me about preordering constantly.

T.A.P. · Feb 11, 2011

Lagduf said:
I pre-order to get the bonus content. On big name releases they always have enough copies on release day so if there no bonus I just get it on release day.

In my town there aren't really a lot of places to get video games. I pre-order a lot at best buy because you get bonus reward points a lot of times (or even free gift cards depending on the purchase) so I save $10-20 on a game a couple times out of the year.

I've pre-ordered firearm parts before

Best Buy screwed me over with the LE of Dragon Age. I pre-ordered it from them several months in advance. I drive up there the day it comes out and they tell me "our store didn't get any of the LEs in LOL".

Fuck them. Haven't bothered with them since then.

Magician · Feb 11, 2011

I preorder most of my games through Gamestop, the major titles anyway. It's what I've done for the past thirteen years in order to guarantee that I have a copy of the new hotness, on day one. Those folks who have the hookup and work at (or either know people that work for) businesses that break retail street dates, hey...that's awesome, I actually somewhat envy you. But I am a sheep, my preorder is secure, comfortable and I kind of like that little automated phonecall from that girl, "Amy...from Gamestop", who reminds me of that preorder I made oh so long ago.

I wonder if Amy takes it up the ass?

cannonball · Feb 11, 2011

Magician said:
I preorder most of my games through Gamestop, the major titles anyway. It's what I've done for the past thirteen years in order to guarantee that I have a copy of the new hotness, on day one. Those folks who have the hookup and work at (or either know people that work for) businesses that break retail street dates, hey...that's awesome, I actually somewhat envy you. But I am a sheep, my preorder is secure, comfortable and I kind of like that little automated phonecall from that girl, "Amy...from Gamestop", who reminds me of that preorder I made oh so long ago.

I wonder if Amy takes it up the ass?

Why give gamestop money months in advance when you could easily drive to any store that actually stocks shelves instead of just fulfilling preorders + 2 shelf copies like gamestop does? You're driving to the store anyways. No reason they should get to earn interest on your money while you wait for release.

GoosehanX · Feb 11, 2011

The only time I preorder is when Amazon gives some preorder credit, although I did preorder a 3DS just in case (I don't want a repeat of the Wii fiasco.)

It doesn't pay to preorder most games, especially with many stores running nice promotions that you never find out about until release week.

I do remember paying my $5 to preorder Zelda Wind Waker, getting the bonus disc with the old zeldas, and never actually paying for the regular game. Good stuff.

Supasaru · Feb 11, 2011

I sort of thought Preordering was for -
1) Guaranteed "early" (ie: release day) copy
2) Loot

I could care less about 2 in most cases, but damnit man... I'm just burned out on preordering games, then watching JustinTV streams of them for a whole month before I get my copy. And they aren't streams from businesses or promoters - they're Bob down the street that has gotten bored with the actual game play and has now created downloadable images for anyone to go grab....

Really? Is this really how this works?

If I order from Capcom, I better get it before the bootleggers do....

GoosehanX · Feb 11, 2011

Or you could just download it yourself (provided you have a hacked system.)

I did preorder SMG2 from Amazon, but was playing a hacked copy several days before release

Supasaru · Feb 11, 2011

GohanX said:
Or you could just download it yourself (provided you have a hacked system.)

I did preorder SMG2 from Amazon, but was playing a hacked copy several days before release

Ya, pass - I shouldn't have to go out of my way to get content that they're handing out a bit like candy to everyone except early orderers....

Lagduf · Feb 11, 2011

T.A.P. said:
Best Buy screwed me over with the LE of Dragon Age. I pre-ordered it from them several months in advance. I drive up there the day it comes out and they tell me "our store didn't get any of the LEs in LOL".

Fuck them. Haven't bothered with them since then.

Sounds like your local store sucks, sorry to hear that.

Comrade Porn King Mikhail · Feb 11, 2011

The only thing I remember pre-ordering lately was MW2 because it came with a $20 credit from Amazon, bringing it down to 40 bucks on release day. I can see pre-ordering for similar bonus codes or whatever, but otherwise I'd rather just wait for it to drop in price.

subcons · Feb 11, 2011

I order all games from Amazon now and have for a while. If it's something I know I'll want, I just preorder it because you end up getting the best deal/incentive they have up until it ships. They keep me coming back with $10 and $20 credits towards future game purchases that I get with nearly every game I order.

As for shipping, it's 99 cents for release day and even sometimes that's free. Come home from work and there it is waiting at my door.

SouthtownKid · Feb 11, 2011

subcons said:
I order all games from Amazon now and have for a while. If it's something I know I'll want, I just preorder it because you end up getting the best deal/incentive they have up until it ships. They keep me coming back with $10 and $20 credits towards future game purchases that I get with nearly every game I order.

As for shipping, it's 99 cents for release day and even sometimes that's free. Come home from work and there it is waiting at my door.

Yeah, this. I don't pre-order much anymore, but any time I do, it's amazon now. Usually the best price, most reliable, free shipping. Even if you did have to pay 99 cents, that's probably less than you'd spend in gas driving somewhere.

hoop-jones · Feb 11, 2011

SouthtownKid said:
Yeah, this. I don't pre-order much anymore, but any time I do, it's amazon now. Usually the best price, most reliable, free shipping. Even if you did have to pay 99 cents, that's probably less than you'd spend in gas driving somewhere.

Amazon is always a good choice.

Since i can trade in some old titles at GameStop and they have significantly improved their trade-in offers over here, they're my choice to preorder the games that i really want to have on the release day.

These won't be any titles apart from Yakuza 4 and Duke Nukem Forever this year for me though.

Moon Jump · Feb 11, 2011

Well this was my first and last order from Capcom. What a clusterfuck. I called up asking where my order was, I told the guy I placed the order in the beginning of January and all I was told that it was "in process" and I couldn't cancel the order. He tells me "wait two or three business days and you should be getting an email for where your order is" I told him the site has said the order has already been "in process" for three days and nothing has changed and he told me there was nothing he could do.

Why the fuck didn't I go to Amazon. You'd think if you went directly to the manufacturer they would have the product first, right? Amazon has been insane. They've got low prices and even when you use Super Saver Shipping the shit I get takes not even two days to get to my house. For now on I'm going to Amazon with all my shopping needs. Fuck the rest of these clowns.

Cavalry · Feb 11, 2011

Supasaru said:
So... preordering...

I pay someone early to not receive the game until after launch...
....while a thousand people are playing the game on JustinTV a month in advance.

And this isn't just for mvc3... same thing happened for SSFIV, BBCS, BBCT, DR2... pretty much every game I've ever thought about preordering for the last year.

Someone hook me up with a scalper in Chicago. I'll pay an extra $20-40 to play a month early.

Do you have a PS3? Wutangrza + geohot.. thats all i'm saying.

SouthtownKid · Feb 11, 2011

Ho Slappa said:
You'd think if you went directly to the manufacturer they would have the product first, right?

You really shouldn't think that. You are comparing amazon, whose entire business revolves around shipping stuff to customers, to a game publisher, whose business revolves almost not at all around shipping stuff to customers. It's no surprise amazon would handle it better.

Phyeir · Feb 11, 2011

Ho Slappa said:
Well this was my first and last order from Capcom. What a clusterfuck. I called up asking where my order was, I told the guy I placed the order in the beginning of January and all I was told that it was "in process" and I couldn't cancel the order. He tells me "wait two or three business days and you should be getting an email for where your order is" I told him the site has said the order has already been "in process" for three days and nothing has changed and he told me there was nothing he could do.

Why the fuck didn't I go to Amazon. You'd think if you went directly to the manufacturer they would have the product first, right? Amazon has been insane. They've got low prices and even when you use Super Saver Shipping the shit I get takes not even two days to get to my house. For now on I'm going to Amazon with all my shopping needs. Fuck the rest of these clowns.

Capcom is awful to order from, they even charge tax for out of state orders when they can't (I'm sure they pocket that); you have to call to get them to reverse it.

I pre-order for three reasons:

A) New system releases - If I want it day one for myself or to make money, I will pre-order.
B) Goodies - My wife likes video game plushies, so that happens on games she likes
C) To help the store - I have a great GameStop I've been going to since the EB days. I've known the manager for like 8 years now, he has a family and all and I like to help his numbers and if I'm going to buy the game anyways, who the fuck cares. Once he's gone though, I don't care and will probably stop going entirely because it'll become just like every other GS with people that don't even know how to type into the system.

SNKorSWM · Feb 12, 2011

Preordering games that play online is sort of pointless. If it is released in limited quantity, you wouldn't find anyone online to play with anyways, and if the quantity shipped is huge, there wouldn't be a problem picking it up from a store on day 1 which renders the preorder itself unnecessary.

Dr. Jigglin · Feb 12, 2011

In the rare occasion that I pre order a game it is something that will not be released outside of Japan. Though the very few new games I buy I could care less about playing on the release date.

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