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

  • Venomnik0
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    71 year ago

    Initially pre orders made sense back when physical media was the only way to get games. Nowadays though, you are absolutely right. Digital games have no right to cost around the price as a physical product (especially when even that physical product doesn’t even have a cool manual and its just an empty plastic box with a disc in it).

    • UKFilmNerd
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      31 year ago

      I know right. What’s the point of these new games coming with beautiful steel books but no discs.

      I can see why because the games are so big, there’s no point sticking a bit of it on a disc. That’s why physical media is becoming redundant. All these games require patches to run and they won’t be around for ever. Not even Switch games are complete on cartridge these days.

    • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      The reason, or at least part of it, is the retail stores themselves. They didn’t want online stores to be a better option where customers could save money, so they made a deal with a bunch of the publishers that they can’t sell their games online for cheaper than the physical copies in retail stores or the stores wouldn’t carry them.

      I’m not sure how much longer that deal will last, though the publishers probably aren’t in any rush to get rid of it since they make better margins on their online sales because of it (and can say “not our fault!” if people complain). But retail stores will be less and less relevant over time I think and eventually someone will want the ability to undercut other AAA games and steal a bunch of market share. Or cut out the whole physical media supply chain entirely.