motivations for pre ordering

what motivates you to pre order a game?

impatience? just need it ASAP.

quality? assume it will be good for whatever reason.

bonuses? could a bonus convince you to pre order?

stock levels? worried if you don't pre order you'd miss out.

social event? maximum chatter occurs in the early days and ya wanna participate, and speak with others about your experience.

accidental early delivery? chance the game arrives before release day. (cheers sts)

another reason? insert your another reason in either english or latin please. also a shout out to lostrib-

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for me, its either impatience; or the social event of discussing a game at the same time as other people who are also discovering it from zero.

also for me, not motivated by bonuses, refuse to buy into pre-release quality assumptions for any reason including developer pedigree, stock level ... i'd just miss out

I haven't pre ordered a game in years, but when I used to it was always out of pure hype. Just knew I wanted the game so I'd go ahead and pay it off. Only once was it for a bonus, some stupid skin for Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2.

I don't really pre-order games. Seems pointless to me and a good way to lose track of how much money I have in the bank.

There's absolutely no good reason to do so, unless you're ordering something for the Wii U or 3DS, then it's essential, because they never keep any inventory of that stuff because nobody ever pre-orders it. For stores like GameStop you pretty much have to pre-order or buy 3DS/WiiU games at release or you might not get it.

Yeah, quite a few of those reasons. Basically, if I'm gonna get it, might as well preorder. I get my stupid pre-order bonus, and I'm sure that I get my copy, too.

The fear of not getting the full game and regretting it.
Civ Beyond Earth... Will those preorder bonuses matter? Will they be for sale later on? Probably is not good enough for me.

@sts106mat: ah the chance to get the game early. i never thought of that. you helped. you added a suggestion.

oh yeah absolutely i'm not defending impatience etc. i think the social reason is fairly legit though. and yes i agree with you - securing a copy.

yeah one can meet a person at midnight releases, ask them to marry, then copulate for the purposes of producing progeny ASAP. aka: taking one's time

& thanks for the other responses, i read them all.

as a pc gamer, if i want a game day one, its cheaper to preorder

I don't pre - Order games anymore I get them on the day of release.

I'll pre-order something if it's a special edition or if I'd like to get the game 1-2 days early before release date.

I never pre order games.