Do you pre order on steam?

Do you pre order on steam or wait till it comes down in price and how many have you pre orded?. Ive been on steam for 8 years now but only just started to pre order games be for they come out on there and my 1st one was sleeping dogs and now just pre orded Bioshock Infinite. Or do you still buy box version which i still try and do and have done for simcity 5 as it was cheaper. (Stay on topic please you no why :D).

I do prefer boxed games but at this rate though i do think digital download is the future. Time to buy or invent some polish what smells like that new game case and instruction smell.

Even if I'm going to buy a game before a price drop, I've never preordered for a digital copy. Have seen tempting enough preorder bonuses. For a select few games from a select few publishers, I'll preorder boxed copies. Got Bioshock Infinite preordered at gamestop. That'll be my first preorder since Diablo 3, which was the first since Starcraft 2.

I usually pre-order on Gamersgate. I can redeem coins and use those coins to buy another game.

i have before.. i usually preorder from GMG for cheaper prices

I don't preorder any games from anywhere these days.  Too many games are released very buggy, or they're just plain crap, so it's not worth it imo.

haven't preordered in ages, and i really hate this new system where each seller offers a different "bonus"

Usually GMG or CDKey House instead, steam is great for sales though.

Quite rare that I buy games these days on day one/full price, but I did happen to get tomb raider as a preorder on steam, because I knew I would enjoy it and it was 10% off

No, I never pre-ordered games before.

I think I may be placing my first pre-order for BioShock Infinite on Steam to get a free copy of the original BioShock. It's a pretty good deal.

Nope. i would though if a game i was interested in had a really good pe-order bonus

I preordered LA Noire once. It got %50 off 2 weeks later. And 3.75$ 1 month later. So I swear to never preorder a game again.murekkep

If it's a game I'm absolutely going to love and will play for a while, yes. But usually I wait for a sale sometime after release since I have so many games I can enjoy in the meantime, thanks to other Steam sales.

The only game I've ever pre-ordered on Steam was Dishonored, and that was because I'd been waiting 6 years for Arkane's new game and couldn't bear to wait for a price drop. Other that that, I don't buy games at the full price. In today's wondrous world of digital distribution you can get most new games for 50% off within 4 months, and I'm very patient when it comes to most games.

I preorder where I get the best deals, simple as that. I've been eyeing the Bioshock Infinite ones, but the free games don't look overly appealing, and I don't know if the game itself will be good or not.

Since switching the PC as my main platform I have rarely pre-ordered a game anywhere, but I have sometimes for the bonuses - especially if that includes free copies of games/sequels to the game coming out I haven't played yet.

Otherwise I wait due to many games receiving a complete/GOTY edition and for a sale. It isn't that I'm cheap - I just can't afford/justify $50-$60 for every new game when they could see a 25%-50% drop within the first few months. I'm still able to support the developers and any money I save allows me to purchase more games now and down the road.

For any games, not just PC, I tend to recommend against pre-orders unless you are 100% sure you want it and/or might be hard to find (physical copies). 

My first pre order from Steam was Bioshock Infinite. I normally would wait to see if it hits stage 3, but I wanted to contribute first.

Depends on the game ay, the last game i pre-ordered and was really excited for was Heavy Rain. Nowadays i wait for a price drop but i will make an exception for The Last of Us and i was going to say GTA V but i'm going to wait for the PC version (fvck you Rockstar).

I only pre-ordered Max Payne 3 and Half-Life 2. The closest to that was Far Cry 3 which I bought day one. Other than that, I usually wait for a price drop or a discount.

I pre purchase games on Steam if its on my most anticipated list. I don't care much about bonuses, just wanna play on launch day.

last time I pre-ordered a game through Steam was Max Payne 3, and that's a pre-order I really found worth the cost because you got so many goodies along with the game.

I've only digitally pre-ordered once and that was Diablo 3 (no Steam) obviously. That was a waste as I wasn't able to log-in when the servers went up so looking back I wish I'd just gotten the box copy of the game, but at the time of pre-order, I was hoping to play as the servers went live. Not my smartest decision.

The only game in the near future that I plan to ever pre-order (on Steam) is AOE2. It's digital download only I believe and pre-orderers get the game 4 days early and a few bucks cheaper. Seems like a win-win.

However, if it's ever a game that I can get a boxed copy for, the pre-order bonuses would have to be pretty good to get digital over retail IMO.

I don't pre-order that much period. But I have bought pre-orders from Amazon and green man before.