huh? (Destiny)

by electricpirate , Tuesday, August 12, 2014, 13:01 (3564 days ago) @ Jillybean

I'm not sure I caught your meaning there? Are you saying that it's not indicative of something, or that it's not something they should be proud of?

Pre-orders used to be a pretty good guide to the sell through of games, hence all the bullshit that goes through to push pre-orders. The offer of a week/long weekend of beta is pretty small beans compared to some other games, for example 2K gave out 2 free games, extra in game powerups, and 20 dollars off for the Bioshock infinate pre-order.

The rise of sales, and digital distribution have cut the value of preorders somewhat, but it's still a pretty large metric.

*FWIW, pre-ordering is dumb, don't pre-order*