Pre-orders (Official Thread)

Instantly pre-ordered the moment I found out it was available
Got the Deluxe edition since mp is a bit meh for me and as far as I know the Super Deluxe only adds mp stuff.

Did I pre-order ?

*cough cough*

"Maybe"

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Of course not. I see a lot of people will never learn, they keep saying "it's the last one, if they fail I'll never preorder again". and they keep saying that for years now. I'm not talking just ME, but games in general. If you're a gamer you should know by now not to preorder any game.

I will always pre-orderr Bioware. See above for my hubby's relationship with Battlefield and Battlefront.

Bioware is the only company I preoreder from nowadays. Haven't done so yet, but I'm waiting to see if anyone I know preorders it for me for Chirstmas before I drop the money on the Deluxe version.

Because that will let developers know you trust them no matter what crap they have done in the past. I'm not specifically talking about Bioware atm, but generally. Which means they can do whatever they want and get away with it, because they know people only complain, but can't walk the talk. That's why companies have no problems resorting to shady business decisions like day one dlcs, microtransactions in single player game (*cough* Deus Ex *cough*), selling cut content that should be part of the package for extra money (*cough* Total war series *cough*) etc etc... Many companies were doing so fine not that long ago without these stupid greedy decisions, otherwise they wouldn't come so far and even make a big name of themselves, but all of sudden they can't make money without being greedy assholes?
If you really like game, you can always buy it after release. If enough people would do that, companies would see they can't sell so many special/limited editions anymore, they can't get money in advance anymore, they are losing trust of their customers, their customers are getting more cautious with their purchases which could mean they could eventually even stop buying from them etc. Then maybe these companies would think things through and decide to make quality products again that are worth your money and not try to milk every penny out of their customer while releasing half broken and half finished games.
Again, this is not about Bioware specifically or about what happened to ME3 (because I know people will accuse me of that). We had plenty of terrible and disappointing releases lately. It's not even just gaming industry. Every company in any branch have to respect their customers and provide quality products if they want to  be competitive.
But of course people make that more and more easy for them to play dirty, so there you go. There are tons of games out there, but no, you gotta get this certain game at exactly that date and hour. You waited years for the release, but you can't possibly wait another day or few hours.
Also, I had a giggle at your quote "Why would you wait to buy this game? What I mean by this is you either like something or you dont." You know, people also liked NMS, but they were very unpleasently surprised once they got the game in their hands. If you think you know the game by one trailer, then i don't know what to tell you. I thought every gamer figured by now it's impossible to judge the game by trailer alone. For me, trailers just help me determine if game looks promising or not. If I like trailer, I know I'll keep an eye on that game, not that I will surely buy it.
I can understand if you preordered Dark Souls 3 for example, since streamers could play big chunk of the game and show it to whole world like it is, two weeks before release. Or Star Citizen, on which you have insane amount of all kind of videos talking about the game, showing gameplay and you had a chance to even try it for free at some point.
Anyway, you'll do what you'll do, I'm just giving my opinion and wondering how people can get fucked the same way multiple times.

well of course I pre-ordered but I pre-ordered the Deluxe Edition for the PS4 and Xbox One and Super Deluxe Edition for Origin and don't regret my choice's plus I don't have the willpower to wait and must play as soon as the game comes out

yes, i'll preorder as soon as i can

I didn't pre-ordered any of the Mass Effect games (I pre-ordered all the Dragon Age ones though).

I might pre-order MEA, I haven't decided yet. The thing with pre-ordering is that you can do it just a few days before the game release with digital version.

Depends, im pretty sure this game is getting delayed to fall 2017 and with the scorpio realse i might pre order it on that. If by some miracle it doesnt get delyaed ill get it on PC. In short ill pre order on PC if no delayed but i does get push to fall 2017 ill get it on scorpio early 2017.