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minus-squareTheFeatureCreature@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up142·22 天前Buying a game post-launch: Better prices; often on sale. Fixed and patched up. Extra content often included. DRM often removed. No brainer, imo.
minus-squareAgrivar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·21 天前You forgot a bonus point: Hardware requirements are now easier/cheaper to meet/exceed.
minus-squareOniononon@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·21 天前Preordering games: I need this digital product before jt goes up in price or runs out of copies!
minus-squareNailbar@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·21 天前Runs out of copies? Is that a thing?
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·21 天前Cons: maybe multiplayer isn’t very populated if you wait too long ???
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 天前Remember when games used to, at least sometimes… do actual internal beta testing to iron out performance bugs and such? Now we are all alpha and beta testers, all the time. Sometimes even AAA and ‘AAAA’ games release, and then unrelease before the alpha or beta is even done! Yeah, patient gaming for me, haven’t preordered or gone into an early access game in almost a decade now…
Buying a game post-launch:
No brainer, imo.
You forgot a bonus point:
Preordering games: I need this digital product before jt goes up in price or runs out of copies!
Runs out of copies? Is that a thing?
not for digital games.
Cons:
maybe multiplayer isn’t very populated if you wait too long
???
Remember when games used to, at least sometimes… do actual internal beta testing to iron out performance bugs and such?
Now we are all alpha and beta testers, all the time.
Sometimes even AAA and ‘AAAA’ games release, and then unrelease before the alpha or beta is even done!
Yeah, patient gaming for me, haven’t preordered or gone into an early access game in almost a decade now…