What is the point of pre-ordering?
Contemplative_Hamster
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What will pre-ordering get me? I can't seen to find any info on it. Or is that the point, that there is no point?
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... I think that's how I would up with so many copies of infinity engine games. Gotta catch 'em all!
BG1 original CD version
TOTSC original CD version
BGEE PC version
BGEE IOS version
SOD PC version (not played yet. I'm waiting for the IOS version)
Surely buying SOD IOS version when available
BG2 original CD version
TOB Original CD version
BG2EE PC version
BG2EE IOS version
IWD original CD version
HOW original CD version
IWDEE PC version (FREE THANKS TO BEAMDOG)
IWDEE IOS version
Planescape: Torment Original CD version
Planescape: Torment GOG version
Surely buying PTEE IOS version when available
Can I miss PTEE PC Version?
Adding to @Pibaro 's list, I've also got all of them on both Steam and GOG, in addition to Beamdog. I also have a DVD copy of BG1 that I got by mailing my original CDs to Interplay. I hated all that disc swapping.
If you pre-order from Beamdog you support the developer who have brought games you play to modern platforms and try to fix bugs and add features to them. You get a forum badge and an option to ask for the Steam key. You also use our badass new Client and get gratitude from the whole Beamdog team.
If you pre-order on GoG.com while you have an original game you get a discount as mentioned on this site.
Trivia.
Vhailor may consider you act according to justice.
And can I pre-order IWD2EE right now?
How about now?
Now?
I can live without the badge.
Also I don't need to remember the release date.
<not a spoiler>As you find out later, The Nameless One was only searching for some awesome forum flair.</not a spoiler>
I actually feel like I'm supporting a company (through a pre-order) than if I'd have pre-ordered through someone like Ubisoft, because Beamdog's a newer company.
Also, I want the forum badge because I have other pre-order badges.
Aside from the spiffy forum badges, I'm just going to imagine that instead of giving a cut of the sale the distributor, Beamdog will use that extra cash to buy donuts for the break room or something.
It's the least I can do to say: Thanks for dragging PST into the 21st Century!
You can enjoy all the potential bugs of that game firsthand.
If we use the Baldurs Gate Siege of Dragonspear and an indicator of things to come, I would say that a two years wait before ordering the game would be a good idea (to give time for the developers to solve the bugs).
Considering that Baldurs Gate Siege of Dragonspear still has bugs after a year from the release date I have my doubts about the Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition readiness.
It's a vicious circle, developers release games that are full of bugs, they start to solve the bugs then they have to work on another game delaying the previous game bug solving. Then the new game is released and the story repeats itself.
If you wait for the bugs to be solved before purchasing the game the developers/the publisher will consider that game a failure as it did not reach it selling target. If you preorder the game, most of the time it will be rushed therefore full of bugs.
So the best solution would be a longer time for beta testing before the game is released
I just preordered the game on GOG so some of my money will go to Beamdog developers but I do hope that Beamdog will not make me regret this purchase by making true the old saying:
Fool me once (BG Siege of Dragonspear) shame on you, Fool me twice (BG Siege of Dragonspear and Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition) shame on me!