Trickrolled?
Why the constant dishonesty?
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It would have been much worse had they been able to take pre-orders for console players at the same time, given the recent announcement.
I'm not tired repeating it:
Stop preordering digital content.
It is a tough decision, for sure.
I pre-ordered as I had disposable funds over the two months that I could 'afford to waste' on 'cake tomorrow'.
There is no guarantee that when Odyssey releases that I'd be sure of having sufficient excess to buy, (after all things can, and do, go awry in life!) so paying 'up front' with money that would otherwise likely just be used for take-aways or Christmas excesses made some sense.
It's a mug's game that really only benefits the publisher. You think people would have learnt by now from all the disastrous game launches over the past couple of decades, but apparently not.
In general I agree, there's zero point in doing it. If there is an incentive in the form of special benefits however, then that's different depending on how badly you need those special benefits. I'm looking forwards to alpha access, the soundtrack and the pioneer suit. As well as the opportunity to support the game with an extra tenner. Not support the company itself, but people need to show an interest in Elite for FD to continue to bother developing it.
Would be funny if that scenario actually happened though. People got mad enough to cancel a preorder so they can preorder again later, closer to release date. People do things without having a clue why they're doing it.
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You had me at cake.
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That would also depend on if you think that the initial release date of early 2021 was for Alpha or the game. It was the game, because they were advertising Odyssey as coming Early 2021. Odyssey is now releasing late Spring/mid 2021. At the moment. Only on PC.
Early to me was up to April. Early/Middle/Late splits the year into three equal parts of four months each. So it's now been delayed by a minimum of another two months, on top of the potential 4 month delay we already had.
But then you also have the fact that David Braben said after the first announcement of the delay that it was a matter of days, not weeks. So by Early 2021 you could easily see why people would have been expecting it in early January.
Then in his announcement to the market the other day he said " Our plan for PlayStation and Xbox is to submit console versions for approval as soon as possible after we have released on PC," And yet the release for them is Autumn 2021 which isn't until at least 3 1/2 months after the latest possible point Odyssey can be released if they keep it in FY 21. That's a looong certification process.
I didn't pre order it on my second account, because I don't pre-order games until the day before release to get the bonus stuff
But customers preordering something isn't relevant to whether or not they were deceived into doing so.
Yes it would. And now you can see exactly why they didn't, and why they refused to answer any questions on it. Because they knew it couldn't release at the same time if they didn't want to entirely miss the FY21 deadline they had put on themselves.
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Haha, I absolutely loved this reply!
It doesn't. Investing your disposable money now for decent return makes sense. Handing out interest-free loans to corpos doesn't.
It isn't? Well, you can deceive me without me handing you money over, but it won't hurt me and there is no material gain for you. But if I give you money with little accountability what I get for it - guess what happens.
Give your money for free and get treated like a cheap piece of crap. Don't do it and you'll maybe see an increase in your (aka customer) net worth.
Personally I don't trust David Braben. I'm not saying he is a con artist, but he definitely reminds me of the stereotypical used car salesman.
I guess you don't pay in advance for your telephone / internet service either then?
Odyssey is still scheduled to release on PC in FY2021 which ends 31st May, therefore it has been delayed an extra month not two (seeing as May is the month immediately after April).
I don't think so. If it is a flat charge it's for the current month. Recurring service fees isn't really upfront payment for one time purchases with uncertain delivery date, though.
I think you mean Chris Roberts. That's the car salesman.
Normally I would agree with you on this these days, but with Odyssey I already know 99.9% that I will buy it, so I could pre-order it.
But then, Frontier aren't really giving me much of an incentive to do so (a single suit skin is not sufficient, even less so without even being able to see what it looks like) so I will simply buy it at launch. It's not like they're going to run out of stock.
In the UK we pay for our Telephone / Broadband service in advance, yes it is a flat fee, but it is still a payment in 'good faith' that it will be delivered... Lining the pockets of a multi-billion corporation. Same with mobile phones (unless 'pay-as-you-go' is chosen) money upfront on a promise...
So for me opting to pay, in advance, for something - at a time when the money is disposable and unlikely to 'earn' worthwhile interest - makes sense enough to not feel any less 'cheated' than paying a utility in advance for a service they may not deliver.
Yeah. That's how to do it. If you really see some great bonus for the pre-order, take it if you think that's worth disposing der cash early. I'd prefer some gameplay over cosmetics, but you can't have everything.
But you don't pay advance for half a year, no? Just for next month?