Comment on Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25

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• kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In defense of preorders, even if they can’t run out of stock, servers can get overwhelmed. If they also do preloading and don’t fuck up a day 0 patch, you can ensure you can play the game immediately.

  I still wouldn’t preorder this kind of game, I wouldn’t trust them not to botch it every way imaginable, but I’m reminded of the Silksong release, which I would’ve trusted with a preorder and could’ve avoided dealing with Steam going down when trying to buy it ;D

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• iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To be honest, if any game had enough demand to run out of physical stock, it might be GTA6.

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  • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Even then, though, I wouldn’t trust preorders enough to do it. Stores love taking preorders, but they don’t factor that in with the amount of stock they’ll receive.

    I remember seeing posts from folks who lined up to pick up their preorders of big games like Spider-Man and Tears of the Kingdom on release day, only to get told by the store that they didn’t actually have enough stock to honor everyone’s preorder.

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    • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not saying it didn’t happen. But I have preordered a small handful of games in the past, and never had that be my personal experience. One was even TotK. I feel like that speaks more towards that specific store’s management than it does to anything else, personally.

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• missingno@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I presume they're also printing physical copies, in which case preorders are still useful to secure a copy day 1. Especially if you're getting it shipped, because if you wait until day 1 to buy it then you're actually waiting a few more days for shipping.

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• Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  When GTa 5 came out, I waited about a week after before I caved and got it.

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