>>39992027For the most part you can know whether you like something or not so pre-ordering is fine. In the end, even if other people dislike it you will never know until you actually try it. Now maybe you have standards which you know aren't met before release (which is why I'm not buying Sword and Shield at all, pre-order or not) but if there aren't someone else can't tell you. Nor is even your opinion on a game after watching an LP and knowing a lot about it in general necessarily a tell.
I thought The Binding of Isaac would be shit even though I found it fun to watch and watched one guy 100% the default Rebirth version. When he stopped to wait for the DLC I realized I just needed more of it so even though I didn't think I'd like it I bought it on 3DS... And then PC... And then the original on PC... And then the physical and digital copies on Switch.
Why? Because this game I thought from every metric I wouldn't like is basically what has mostly taken Pokémon's place for me in terms of time spent playing. I don't play it anywhere near as much as I did Pokémon because now I just spend more time playing a lot of other things but in the last 4 years it's become my third most played game of all time (though nothing will likely ever surpass Pokémon's 7 years of play time so you might as well say it's number two in terms of ones that could change).
Game Freak and TPC/i aren't the only ones who could stand to learn that sometimes you make mistakes and have to eat the cost. Sometimes you'll buy something it turns out you don't like. Oh well. And vice versa.
That said, games trying to hook you with preorder bonuses? You know they're trash and they know it because they'd know they could sell you on the game alone instead of trying to abuse you into paying for something that should be unlockable by buying and playing the game regardless if it weren't.
The fact that S/S are the first ones to get pre-order bonuses is telling. They knew.
