Re-evaluating position

Sincerely? Don't pre order it. Wait and see my friend. This pre-order BS is one of the things that are ruining gaming. I'm not a fan of nostalgia, but games are rushed into market nowadays, in part to meet pre-order sales projections made by executives far removed from the gamimg experience.  And you are giving a blank check for a product that you have doubts on its final quality.

Never pre-order. The best thing is to wait for the early/in-progress reviews, usually on the same day as release, then decide whether it's worth $80 to you. Unless you have a shitternet connection, I fail to see why most people don't do this.

Ditto.

What a joke that 4k demo was. "Here is a dimly lit area and a minute of moving slowly"

But the DAI in space thing is what is killing me. I had a sense of dread playing that game where I went "Is this going to be the new Bioware blueprint?"


I don't have much in terms of hopes for the exploration demo this week because a 3 minute heavily edited video really isn't indicative of exploration in a game.

Thanks for contributing quality input to this conversation. This is about as good as those "Hey, my game isn't working. Has this bug" posts on the Steam boards and the first 5 posts are "Works for me, scrub"

Really adds to the conversation at hand.

The amount of work to get a Tech/Test or Beta or Preview to work is pretty significant and frankly I rather have them working on the game that I will be playing and not giving an out of date build for people to whine about because they had to lock that build weeks if not months ago.

Do you really think $80 is worth agonizing over? You've bought it. You've played it for 5 min. You hated it. You went on the net and ranted your soul out for a couple of days.

Done. It's 80$. You can afford tossing it into trash once a year.

But if you don't buy it on day one, you'd be trolling internet trying to peel the petals from that daisy from now till you buy it anyway.

Or do you have something else to play for a year that is truly engaging enough that you are never going to look, and pick it up on sale? If yes, just go do it. Buy it in March 2018. It will be cheaper then regardless of how good or bad it is, plus will include a DLC or two.

If I had anything I was burning to play this coming year, I'd wait. but I only have the hots for Andromeda. Witcher? No, thanks. Numenoria? It's Obsidian, wait till they patch it, then wait a year till they *really* patch it or go broke again. Horizon? Don't have PS4, and would not for a couple of years. And that's that for 2017.

Yes the agony.  Oh the agony.  I am conflicted so it must be AAAAAAAAAGONYYYYYYYYY!  I have concerns, they are valid.  Now I have to reassess those concerns against my faith in this game.  That isn't a switch.  This entire thread has been a process in me understanding whether or not I keep my pre-order or not.  It was $68 actually but yes it does matter, I only allot myself a certain amount of video game purchases a year.  I use to spend way too much.

 Throw $80 away.  That is a case of exceptionally good beer.  That is a case of Ballast Point Victory At Sea.  Go learn the value of money. 

Man I wish I could treat $80 that casually...

I'll touch it once just to see what it's like but that'll probably be it. I'm kind of burnt out on online multiplayer games tbh. That was all I played during my college years and at this point I'm kind of over it.

IKR?  I learned pretty quickly that there's no such thing as good beer, at least not here in the States.  I couldn't make it through my 2nd can without throwing up.

Then when I turned 13 my friends Joe and Chris introduced me to Mad Dog 20/20, which didn't make me throw up but was too weak, then Trisha gave me some Jim Beam, which made me black out every time, then when I was 14 Wild Bill and his wife who lived in the alley behind my grandmother's house gave me some vodka, and the rest is history.