5 Reminders NOT to Pre-Order Games This Year
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Pre-ordering video games used to mean securing your disc at a retailer before they sold out on launch night. Now it means paying full price (or more) for a p...

Honestly, if the idea of no trials don’t bother you, there are plenty more reminders why YOU shouldn’t preorder.

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21Y

What is the main motivation for that though? Being able to play the games a couple of days earlier?

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31Y

A couple of days? BG3 started letting people play the Alpha almost 3 years ago (october 2020) if you pre-ordered.

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Definitely worth me spending 10-15 bucks to play something a bit earlier.

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11Y

Even that perk is going away, no? Starfield makes you get the more expensive preorder to have it “early”

The standard preorder doesn’t get shit from what I’ve seen

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