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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is never any reason to pre-order a game. Like, ever. It's always stupid and reinforces terrible incentives that drive the enshittification of gaming. Even when the devs aren't straight up scammers, preorders mean they can be profitable before they've even released anything so they're incentivized to put out whatever half-baked garbage they can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

But you are missing all the cool pre-order cosmetics! /s