r/pcmasterrace • u/ApprehensiveBug1774 • 10h ago

Meme/Macro Ape has a point

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u/Super-Employment-323 10h ago

its crazy how upset people get with preorders and pretend like you can't just refund them

how are you not aware of steams refund policy?

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u/xenotyranid 9h ago

Even PlayStation has a refund policy for preorders, and so does Xbox.

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u/StopTheMeta2 3h ago

If companies get money without even having a product, then what's their incentive to improve it?

I mean, it's you guys who are always bitching and whining about games being a mess at release, how companies have turned you into beat testers and whatever, yet you'll rush falling for the same trap every time a new game does some marketing.

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u/Super-Employment-323 3h ago

what a silly comment

if its a mess at launch i refund it? Valve pay the publishers monthly and deduct refunds. Publishers dont get to keep my money if I refund it.

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 1h ago

Yet another topic that is resolved by "live and let live".

It shouldn't matter to any of us if someone pre-orders or not unless the pre-order provides some unfair advantage. If there is an unfair advantage, then I personally just wouldn't buy that game because fuck any game developer who pulls that shit.

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u/a-new-3arth 7h ago

because you support the awful industry practise of making revenue and then shipping dogshit live service games

how are you not aware of steams refund policy?

most preorder buyers never refund their purchase, effectively giving the devs money for shipping trash unless its a catastrophic launch like cyberpunk

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u/vlken69 9800X3D + 48G + 4080S | 12900K + 64G + 2070S | 5600 + 32G + 3080 10h ago

Because we know people forget. Like 80 % (IDR the exact number in the study, I believe it was even more) of people underestimate their expenses for subscription services, how many people do you believe notices the game was released in the first two weeks?

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u/SaveTheSpycrabs 9h ago

what? you think people forget the release date of a game they were so excited for that they preordered it?????

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u/Ratzing- 8h ago

Yeah ongoing sub that got lost between the cushions is no way shape or form similar to a preordered big title.

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u/BellacosePlayer 8h ago

If you get FOMO'd into preordering stuff you were on the fence on, that's one thing.

who cares if I preorder a game I was going to get 100% of the time anyway?