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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Seriously, we have digital distribution now. Pre-orders made sense when it was a hot ticket item that would immediately sell out day 1, but not any more. We used to have bite back in the day, we used to have game publishers go "oh, please, try out a third of our game all you want, and spare us a pittance if you would like to see the rest" on PC. What happened to those days? We don't even get demos any more, except for Square Enix, but it seems like they only give away demos to their worst games. But, hey, it's *something*.
gpt
Yeah, but people want the pre-order exclusive butt plugs. So they can prepare for their corporate overlords.