Evening,
Just wonder when we will be able to do that?
Thanks
Deasun
PRe-Order on Steam?
Evening,
Just wonder when we will be able to do that?
Thanks
Deasun
It says we will be able to order it on steam on the 22nd, but I'm not sure when you can start Pre-Orders sorry
It may not be possible to pre-order at all.
Preordering from Steam does not make any sense, anyhow you will be able to download the game immediately after you buy it so what's the point of pre-ordering? Don't say a discount because its unlikely they would offer one for the expansion. If they did everybody that intends to buy would pre-order I suppose.
Preordering enables you to pre-download a game, so once its actually released, you can play it right away. Also, many games offer preorder incentives such as a 10% discount or bonus content. Its not unheard of at all and frankly, I like the idea because you're right; with no physical game, there's no real incentive to preorder stuff anymore.Originally Posted by civdiss
Usually it would be for a preload, so you could play at the moment of release rather than waiting for a download.
It depends on the game - both it's popularity, and the size of the download required.
I pre-ordered Skyrim on Steam ... and boy was I glad of it! With over 8GB of data to download, can you IMAGINE the chaos of having a million people all trying to get the game onto their machine at 12:01am on Launch Day? GOOD GRIEF. I doubt I would have been able to play before 6:00am, if I'd only started downloading at midnight. (And since I had to try eight times just to download the tiny >1MB key? Yeah, I'm confident it would have taken that long - and a lot of hair-pulling-out "click the button and hope, click the button and hope, click the button and hope, click the button and hope" frustration.
Instead, by pre-ordering, you got to pre-LOAD the game ... and then just had to wait for an unlock key, so your computer could decrypt and install the files you'd downloaded days before. So in my case, I was playing the game by 12:07am.
Now sure, maybe you don't care about a mere six hours (or more). But some of us do.
Also, just for the ease of mind. I was less-anxious during the last week before Skyrim launched, because in the back of my head I knew: "it's already mine - paid for, downloaded, and just waiting for that teeny key." That sense of "already taken care of" was quite nice, actually.
Finally, sometimes a game will give pre-order customers bonus content. cov5 did that, in fact (though that content was eventually released to everyone, pre-order customers did still get "first crack at it").
I'm not sure if pre-loading is available for DLC on Steam, generally speaking. Never seen it, but don't know if it's not possible either.
It can depend on the game though. Some games have pre-orders but no pre-load.
I would have loved if Shogun 2's expansion came with a pre-load. Instead, it didn't, and for some reason I had to load twenty GB. It took only five (non-consecutive) days, but I would have much preferred to begin downloading a week before release and begin playing straight away. That's what I want to do with GK, or at least have them offer a disc-copy.
I'm pretty sure they said there will also be a retail release (also there's retail box-art floating around saying PC DVD on it). I'm not 100% positive, though. If anyone else knows?
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