Less than Fntastic.
    • Altima NEOEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      Problem is they offered full refunds. So they got the investor cash, but not the pre-order money.

    • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      A little surprised it was even released instead of going the Kickstarter/early access route.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4616·
    10 months ago

    So, uh, just how dumb have gamers become? I haven’t bought anything in ages, don’t keep up with the news, but even my ignorant ass knows not to preorder anthing.

    Far as I’m concerned, anyone that dumb deserves to be ripped off.

    Anyway, stay tuned, smash like and subscribe to keep up news on my latest AAA title!

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      174·
      10 months ago

      Nobody should be preordering, but companies still offer it because too many dumbasses preorder anything and everything.

      • BumpingFugliesEnglish
        112·
        10 months ago

        I occasionally pre-order games, but only ever through Steam, where I know I can get my money back, no questions asked, if it’s within 2 weeks of release and < 2 hours of play time.

        Otherwise, I stay far away from pre-orders.

      • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        10 months ago

        I will preorder a Zelda game or something where I’m pretty confident of the quality and I don’t want to worry about slow download speeds on the day of release. I assume my case isn’t what you’re talking about, but if it is foolish in some way that hadn’t occurred to me, please let me know lol

        • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          53·
          10 months ago

          You can’t be pretty confident of the quality before getting the game via preorder. All you have to go by at that point is trailers they made.

          • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            I’m not only going by the trailer though. I’m also going by track record of the company, and particularly how they treat their flagship titles. With that taken into account, I do feel pretty confident.

          • all-knight-party@kbin.run
            3·
            10 months ago

            You can be confident of a number of things based off studio history and baseline level of quality, but you do need a very consistent and strong set of data for that. For instance, I find Monster Hunter to be a franchise that’s relatively safe to pre-order.

            As long as you are not a player that’s married to the iterative unique mechanics in each entry and you know you love the base gameplay you can reasonably expect a certain amount of quality, and that’s been true for about two decades now. That being said, you couldn’t say this about most devs or series. I’d also argue for any games released by Kojima as long as you really enjoy his outlook, style, and passion.

            You cannot know exactly what each of his games contain before playing, but you can be assured that there will be a baseline level of “they really gave a shit and made something novel and interesting” in his games.

          • ButtDrugs@lemm.eeEnglish
            42·
            10 months ago

            I think Nintendo games might be the exception here. You can get a physical copy on release day, put it in and play immediately, and the quality is gonna be at least 8/10, probably higher.

    • lescher@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, it’s just that you couldn’t officially preorder this game, you had to buy it the day it became available. Sure it was a shit game but people literally scamed themselves when they didn’t even try to look up if the game they are buying is any good.

      • theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        you had to buy it the day it became available

        I feel like they missed a trick by not allowing you to pre order the day before it became available. Not that anyone should have, it just would have been funny

    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
      91·
      10 months ago

      It’s so weird. I first heard from the game like two weeks before it released, watched a trailer, which lead to the whole controversy and what the ceo’s are up to and was like: oh this is a fake game and or a scam. Or at the very least a really really bad game. How can one follow these people for years and be excited.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    201·
    10 months ago

    pay fines for bad work

    Yeah, jail. Someone belongs in jail. That’s straight-up “company town” bullshit, and it’s the sort of thing you’d like to think we solved a century ago.

    Lotta those things goin’ around these days.