IT'S A TRAP (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 06:19 (2810 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Meh. So far I've seen:

• A great, hour long reveal event with some fantastic cutscenes and a good bit of awesome looking gameplay.
  
• A full recording of a cool looking Strike beginning to end.
  
• The recordings and impressions of multiple people who played multiplayer at the reveal event.
  
• A pair of podcasts that were decently informative
  
• And now, a nice end of a cutscene where the villain has more lines of dialogue than all of Destiny 1's raid bosses combined.

That, and I have three years with the first game that I greatly enjoyed. I think it's much safer to preorder Destiny 2 than it was for me to flip flop five hours later when I went from cancelling a preorder to upping it to the Ghost Edition.

Besides, Kahzgul told me preordering is ok now. :)

I can confirm that it's okay to pre-order as long as you can get a refund if the product isn't to your liking :)

The whole reason to be anti-pre-order is because you're buying something sight unseen with no recourse if it isn't as advertised. Having the option of a refund means you have recourse. Personally, I think that lends itself more towards pre-ordering, since it will help the devs figure out how many servers they need by launch, get better pre-launch beta data (or at least more of it), and let them know that X number of people will be returning their product if it stinks, which makes their sunk cost in infrastructure that much more painful if the product doesn't measure up.

So... Only pre-order if you know you can get a refund. Otherwise, wait for the reviews. Those six hours won't kill you.

And, really, if devs want to see bigger pre-order numbers, they should unmuzzle reporters a week or so before launch so you can have reviews before release.