Are you pre-ordering?
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Balkans
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Probably a few days before release i will purchase the game. If i have the money at the time.
JimmyBanks
Warlord
Gonna be preordering. Haven't come up with a good reason not too... but if Firaxis don't hurry up and post the video of yesterdays livestream that I missed I might get a reason. Australians who didn't wake up at 4am shouldn't be punished because they stuffed up.
m15a
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With all this speculation of how civ choices affect sales, I'd be shocked and amused to hear that Civ VI lost a sale by not posting the replay of a random fairly uninformative live stream.
JimmyBanks
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With all this speculation of how civ choices affect sales, I'd be shocked and amused to hear that Civ VI lost a sale by not posting the replay of a random fairly uninformative live stream.
Hahahaha!!! Well I don't know that it was uninformative if you exclude the leaked information. I haven't watched it so I can't come to that conclusion...
Cephme
Chieftain
It was not very informative at all other than the oops which you can see a screen cap of on that thread. The only other thing that was of interest was that Freddy doesn't like civs that have control over city states (either as leading envoy race, suzerain, or conquerer), and that the promotions for unit are kind of in a tree as well so if you take Battle Cry as your first one (for that type of unit) you can take tortise or Commando as the second etc. Was really a quick shot and they did not discuss it much as they were flustered after the ooops. http://well-of-souls.com/civ/civ6_units.html
The only really loss is not hearing the music which was great. The "percussion" almost koto drum section was particularly cool.
stealth_nsk
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Thanks! Will not work for me as basic price on Steam in Russia is already lower. So, waiting for some local promos...
salty mud
Deity
Being a civ fanatic is no reason to suspend all logic and pre-order something, a practice that has zero benefits whatsoever. All it does is encourage further stripping of game components by game developers to sell as future DLC and also sends the message that anything developers make will be fine, they can just patch it in time. Both of these are highly destructive to the video game industry.
Regards.
I did preorder despite my normal aversion to such things for three reasons:
1) I see what i pay for from let's plays and i am impressed
2) Sooner or later I will buy all DLCs anyways, so why not do this with promised discount
3) Who knows what stupid stunt my dear government could make to plunge currency exchange rate even further so better buy a game while i still can
1) I see what i pay for from let's plays and i am impressed
2) Sooner or later I will buy all DLCs anyways, so why not do this with promised discount
3) Who knows what stupid stunt my dear government could make to plunge currency exchange rate even further so better buy a game while i still can
I already know what features are in the game, I don't feel that any game components are stripped of.
Also I want to be able to play on day 1, I want the pre-order bonus and 60 isn't much money really. All experiece show that I will put 1000+ hours in this game, so there is not much of risk, is it? If it takes a couple of patches to get it right, I guess I'm willing to take that risk, it's a stretch to call it "suspend all logic".
You can say what you want about "the industry", but the fact of the matter is I payed more than 60 years age on games that were unbelievable bad to the MegaDrive and NES, or games to the PC that will never get fixed (Vampires: The Masquerade). So don't pretend bad games or buggy games is a new matter. There might be more incentives to ship a buggy game now with the possibility of patches, but also games are much more complex nowdays, so in part it is understandable.
Pre-orders aren't particular to the game industry. I have friends who forked out more than 1k to pre order the new Tesla that they will probably get in 2018, even if they've never even seen the finished product. Companies with a good reputation can do that, however they wage their reputation on the finished product.
racha
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I would, but I got burnt by pre-ordering BE so I'll probably wait until the winter sales. Based on what we know so far, I'm definitely looking forward to it.
apocalypse105
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Shut up and take my money
Big J Money
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I'll preorder day before or same day to get Aztecs. Not playing these publisher games where I preorder early because of the carrot.
Honestly, if I don't have Aztecs in first 90 days, it's not a big deal. Civ V has lasted me years.
Honestly, if I don't have Aztecs in first 90 days, it's not a big deal. Civ V has lasted me years.
I feel it's wrong to charge people money before shipping a product.
My native country actually has law against doing that, though I have no idea if digital stuff can somehow claim to never be shipped or some other workaround.
Otherwise I see no problem with pre-ordering and will pre-order books and other stuff too.
Does a steam pre-order mean that Steam hold the money and earn interest? That would make it even creeper system.
I once pre-ordered a game and then the added another better pre-order deal at the same shop, but I was still stuck on the old pre-order, so even while I don't mind pre-orders, it would be stupid to pre-order way early when they do rude stuff like that.
My native country actually has law against doing that, though I have no idea if digital stuff can somehow claim to never be shipped or some other workaround.
Otherwise I see no problem with pre-ordering and will pre-order books and other stuff too.
Does a steam pre-order mean that Steam hold the money and earn interest? That would make it even creeper system.
I once pre-ordered a game and then the added another better pre-order deal at the same shop, but I was still stuck on the old pre-order, so even while I don't mind pre-orders, it would be stupid to pre-order way early when they do rude stuff like that.
salty mud
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This is all extremely naive. Your argument is basically, "well previous civ games were good so this one will be as well" and then created strawman arguments. It's your fault you bought a full price game years old that was bad. That's why you do research into products. That's also why you don't preorder - if you for some reason simply HAVE TO HAVE it on release day, you wait until release day, see what other people say, and download it then. Or wait an extra day or two for delivery. Also, giving games a pass to make buggier games because they are "more complex" is very juvenile. Game companies also now have budgets that dwarf what they had back when. Games should be of a higher quality, always.
You also destroyed your own argument. They are offering preorder content for those that preorder. If that isn't cutting content, I'm not sure what is
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