I knew most people were stupid but this is crazier than i thought, illuminati even

Dude, you have to go to tims and get an ice cap and chill, let people do what they wanna do and just enjoy what you do.
Have a wonderful day.

Yeah it baffles me too but they must, unless all the stores are lying with their best seller rankings.

Calling other people stupid is the most satisfying way to boost our own intelligence.

+1 int ring of bullying

Apparently they do. And game companies will keep coming up with even more nefarious ways to sell and package games, and observe with wonder that at no point will people sit back and say "Hang on, this isn't right". They'll keep buying whatever lofty ideas they're sold, and be happy about it. Even if the end product is shit. They'll keep buying air again, and again.

It's a hype thing, objectively there is no reason to pre-order digital content because there's no chance of stock running out.

Even 6+ years before completion. ;P

No. No person in the history of forever has ever pre-ordered a game. Never ever. Scout's honor, pinkie swear, no backsies.

There, you can rest easy now.

I dunno, it boggles the mind, especially for digital releases. Even before I grew a brain, I only preordered a game once and I did so because:

1. it was a physical copy that could, theoretically, be in short supply on release day, and

2. it was COD, so I kinda knew exactly what I was getting. It's not like I was preordering Brink or DNF.

I would like to grow a brain, have you got any tips for that?

Get past 25 years old, give or take a decade. No guarantees though.

Still just sawdust for me, and a dried peanut, i can hear it rattling around inside.. oh well i'm past it now anyway.

As for pre-ordering, that went apeshit when people queued outside stores for the latest iPhone, once that started happening humanity was doomed.

Though for a Collectors Edition like For Honor's, pre-ordering would be worth it as once that was released, those that were left got snapped up within a few weeks, and i considered buying another. :(


Probably the only collectors edition i've ever considered worth it for me.

Ok let me tell you a thing, OP.

In the Year of our Lord 2014, I decided to buy a new bike. I had two choices: take out a loan and preorder a standard road bike from the store which only accepted cold hard cash, OR pay a nominal sum and preorder a super advanced super comfortable ultra marathonning bike from my friends and pinky swear to save up and pay the rest when it arrived. Of course, I picked the second option - after all, even if I couldn't save up, I could always take out a loan in 2015, right?

Well, in the spring of 2015, the senile dwarf decides to invade a neighboring state so the Russian rouble nosedives to 1/3 its 2014 value, and his diplomatic efforts ruin relationships with the two tourist hotspots my employer's business is most dependent on (not that people can afford to travel). My job is fucked. My disposable income is negative. Cash loan rates are over 30%.

My friends tell me the importer got bogged down in a bureaucratic nightmare. There'll be no bike. I spend the little money (not nearly enough) I managed to save on the last shipment of specialty teas still priced according to the old exchange rate.

Then she arrives.

I named her Genevieve, after the song in The Strawberry Window. It took me the better part of eternity to pay off that loan, but who gives a blast in hell.

TL;DR if you're not an investor and thus don't have a better use for money, preordering the game you're going to buy anyway is one of the more sensible decisions. Not that I expect sensible decisions from someone who can't spell "people".

Unfortunately the answer to any "do people really do [insert any stupid thing]?" question is always going to be "yes".