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After the debacle that was Destiny 2, which I pre-ordered for $100 (which was a lot back then), I swore off ever pre-ordering games ever again. However Starfield is out soon, and I have been dying to play it it’s the whole reason I bought my Series X. So, do I preorder it?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At the risk of explaining the context of the comment you responded to where it may be unnecessary...

Lemmygrad is an explicitly Marxist instance of the Fediverse. A big part of Marxism is practicing dialectical materialism. Put simply, the purpose of practicing this is to look at the whole picture and the opposing forces at play in order to understand our world. What forces drive change and why do they drive change? How do we think these forces and changes will affect the world we live in and how can we actually make any meaningful difference in our world?

The user above is saying you won't get another answer here because when we look at how preorders for games operate, why companies offer preorders, and what benefits you get from preordering (why you would preorder a game), the logical conclusion is that not only is there (usually) no benefit for the consumer to preorder a digital game these days, but also that preordering a digital game actually hurts the consumer because it's encourages bad behavior from the company.

Hopefully that clears things up and I did a decent job greatly simplifying the concepts of dialectical materialism here. Many of us think that studying the world in this manner leads us as close to understanding the truth as possible and that we can use this logic to make the world a better version of itself. Ultimately, these concepts are at the heart of Marxism and it is Marxist theory that lays down the path for how to achieve communism.

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