And if people had paid fucking attention to both of those games they wouldn't have pre-ordered them in the first place. People love to bring up WD, ACM, Unity, etc as proof of no pre-ordering but it's not like those games ending up poorly was a surprise. Even though no one could have guessed the extent of Unity's issues, Ubi had more than proved itself untrustworthy. This is even more true on the PC side. After how shit the port of Black Flag was at launch that should have been a great sign for people to stop and go "maybe I should wait" then Watch_Dogs hit and was a bad game. With Aliens, I don't care how big a fan you are of the movies buying Pitchford's shit about loving the franchise and wanting to make a game for fans was idiotic. I don't blame Gearbox for DNF but Pitchford was in full bullshit mode when promoting that one as well.
I agree with your point. But I personally liked Watch Dogs, I preordered it on the XB1. I didn't get it on the PC because the past few ports weren't good. So I wasn't going to take the risk on that by getting it on the PC. I also preordered AC unity which was a little disappointing. I still enjoyed it becuase I'm a fan of the series. The issues I had with the game wouldn't changed if didn't preorder or got the game 3 days after it launched.
Like DNF was a bad game. There is no way preorders made that game any worse then what it was.
The reality the person who can't handle buying a bad or broken game. Should never preorder a game or get it launch day or week for that matter. I have no sympathy for someone that preordered a game and didn't like it.
I preordered FFXIII on the PC and it ended up being a crappy port. I didn't bitch about it, I learned my lesson. When FFXIII-2 came out I didn't preorder it, I waited for the reviews to see if there were any major problems.
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