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Im So Smart (lemmy.world)
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[–] 22 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Pre-ordering games used to be cool.

You'd show up to the game store for the midnight release, pick up your copy, then head back to your buddy's place and play until 9pm.

You'd get a physical copy of your game and some cool shit too.

No install times either.

Just plug and play.

It was the style of the time.

Nowadays you get a code in a box (at best) and some cheap trash.

I haven't pre-ordered a game since before 2012.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 minutes ago

    The ones I enjoyed the whole pre-order process for were WoW's TBC and WotLK. But they did have install time and server issues at launch.

    It was fun overall but I remember waiting for a server queue only to see a huge mass of people in the starting areas, waiting for quest mobs to respawn to race to get the first hit on and the relief that came with finally getting ahead of that pack. They didn't have digital versions despite the game being completely online and blizzard probably being one of the few that had the bandwidth available to run an online store at the time.

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