"I've mentioned before that I've worked in this industry for a while, mostly in the retail management sector, in the Greater Toronto Area.
I managed a few stores for EB Games. There, I said it and now we have to live with it.
Recently one of our forum members and industry jokester, Nathan Smart, has had a spotlight blasted on him for his new website venture, Pre-Order Pushers. The site is a public forum for gamers to recite the most ridiculous s- they have ever been told or heard a store clerk say about a game to get them to preorder."
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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
Oh man I have heard some idiotic stuff...I was told I wouldn't get pretty much EVERY game if I didn't pre-order. Pretty sure everytime I went to buy a 360 after it released I got a 20 minute lecture on how amazing the PS3 was going to be and how it would blow my 360 out of the water. I was even told to pre-order crackdown if I wanted to play Halo 3 beta. Their full of sh*t, they don't know anything.
Pre-ordering isn't every retailers wet dream like they make it off to be. A lot of it is the pre-ordering gives an idea of how much stock and such to get in.
Are pointless to me, never used them. They always told me pre order it man it will be sold out. Come in there all late and theres plenty copies there. So in my experiance there useless.
but otherwise no, I go to bestbuy and they always have more than enough copies.
There are always plenty of copies to be had and all the little trinkets they give are just thrown in a drawer somewhere. I have enough junk.