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#2  Edited By LikeaSsur

@dudeglove: Your entire conspiracy theory is banking on the implication that you know exactly what every company is doing with their pre-order money, and I'm going to take a very risky guess and say that you actually have no idea. So what, before release day, my $60 are all put into the "bloated marketing budget," but after day 1, it magically goes anywhere but? Give me a break. Besides, I didn't know marketing was suddenly sleazy. Man, it's like they're in it to make money or something. What a crazy idea!

Also, wow do you buy into crazy ideas easily. Because I pre-order, I'm hurting Giant Bomb? Come on, man. I don't appreciate the assumption that I'm some mad idiot who doesn't know what video games are. Guess what, I already know whether or not I want to buy a game before Giant Bomb ever Quick Looks it, if they ever do, save for some crazy out-of-the-way indie title I never would've heard of otherwise. How do I do this? Because of everything I said before. I know what video games are, and I don't need Giant Bomb or any other website to tell me Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U, or Majora's Mask 3D is going to be good.

Oh, and there is a point to pre-ordering: I want it on day one and I want a physical copy (because what's the point of buying digital when it costs the same?) and if I get a cool Retro Lancer skin or a boost to my starting ingame currency, then sure, why the heck not? I didn't pay any more for it.

Finally, me contributing to an "unfinished product" is probably a lot of bull. What you're thinking of is Kickstarter or Indiegogo, where people just scream "I have an idea, and I need money for it!" By the time I get around to pre-ordering a game from Gamestop, I'd be willing to bet it's a lot more finished than you think, so again, who/what is my pre-order hurting? Am I really so bad for pre-ordering GTAV when I know Rockstar, and their track record with that series, or should I have waited for the gaming websites to tell me what I had already known?

So you're right, pre-orders are not killing the industry. I dare say it's probably not even impacting it in any way that you've mentioned. If the game was going to sell anyway, what difference does it make when they got their money?

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#4  Edited By LikeaSsur
@excast said:

Stop preordering games because of some lame cosmetic item you will likely never use. Stop agreeing to purchase an item before you even know of it;s quality.

Here's the thing: I don't live in a bubble. Games don't suddenly pop into existence. There's teaser trailers, launch trailers, gameplay trailers, the name of the publisher, developer, basically everything I need to know what kind of game it is and whether or not I'd want it, because I do the sensible thing of comparing a new game to similar titles as well as taking the developer's track record into account and decide by then if I'm going to buy it or not.

So I do pre-order, and shove off if you think I'm committing some cardinal sin. I was going to buy the game anyway, why crucify me because I bought it before it came out? On top of getting the game on day 1, I also got some cool little thing as a "thank-you" for pre-ordering, so what exactly am I doing wrong? Nothing? I'm gonna go with nothing.

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What do I think? I think it's way to early to say whether or not video games do or do not "cause" anything, because we just don't know yet. Sure, that article was published, so there's some certainty that the results are good, but to what degree? How reliable is the study? Is it externally valid? What were the measures, what were the results? On and on, and I'm willing to bet the final results weren't in such a landslide that OP can make such a one-sided claim as he did in the title.

To illustrate my point that we just don't know yet, I finally utilized my university's database and I found thesestudies which seem to go against OP's title, all of which are also very recent. So as in most sociology/psychology studies, the most we can definitively say is "I don't know, maybe it's kinda true?" or, to put it more professionally, "more research is required."

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Sure, hidden/alternate endings are fine, just give it closure instead of ending on a cliffhanger or making it apparent that there are still loose threads.

To this day, only the Drakengard series has done bad endings right in that they are all alternate endings, but one doesn't necessarily tie into another; they're all separate events.

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@trafalgarlaw: If you're saying that anything on my list except Monster Hunter is a "port," then we can't have this conversation until you know what you're talking about.

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Don’t spend all of your time in the convention center. Get out of there once in a while, get some air, grab some real food, see some of the city, etc.

Yeah right, you just want all that free stuff to yourself, don't you? Well, joke's on you, I'm setting up a tent right in the convention center.

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Ever since the Horse Ebooks/Pronunciation Book crap, I'm just waiting for when the clock hits midnight and it's an Upworthy "journalist" unveiling his new and profound Youtube series.