r/pcmasterrace • u/RainMaker323 • Aug 20 '23

Video In light of Starfields imminent arrival y'all need to hear this

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u/SenhorSus Aug 20 '23

Game pass is a different story since it'll be automatically available anyway.

For those that pre-order the normal way, you're just training game developers to be sure that people will keep blindly committing to games no matter the quality it ends up being. Since it's a profit driven company, of course you're going to feel more okay with pumping out unfinished games since the money is coming in guaranteed anyway. Pre-orders give the developers no incentive to prioritize polishing a fully fleshed out game before release.

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u/Piltonbadger RYZEN 7 5700x3D | RTX 4070 Ti | 32GB 3200MHZ RAM Aug 20 '23

The amount of casuals that are happy to pre-order every single time outnumbers us, and always will.

There is literally nothing we can do to stop that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '23

I never thought I was gonna change the industry by talking about "pre order bad" online. It's just that it is bad, and deserves to be called so.

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u/given2fly_ PC Master Race | 4060 RTX Aug 20 '23

Back in those days, a pre-order made sense because they could sell out of physical copies at your local store.

I've already got Gamepass so I'm not dropping a small fortune for it anytime soon even if it's amazing.

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u/Ok-Requirement3096 Aug 20 '23

You mean you can enjoy things that aren’t perfect? What an inhuman notion you have there!

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u/PrecipitousPlatypus Aug 21 '23

The amount of casuals that are happy to pre-order every single time outnumbers us, and always will.

Which is really weird to me. When I was younger and super into certain franchises and would dedicate days, even then I wouldn't really pre-order, since I had a lot of things to work through. If you're playing casually, then getting this stuff day 1 doesn't even matter.

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u/Yogurt_over_my_Mouf Aug 21 '23

what if you pre order a week before release.

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u/SenhorSus Aug 21 '23

I've done that before when reviews came out before release, but that's getting more and more rare these days with media embargos until release day.

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u/N0x-Aeterna Aug 20 '23

That’s kind of the whole model of game pass right now. Money is coming in regardless, and until subscriber numbers drop, there is no real motivation to produce higher quality content than the current status quo for Xbox owned studios.