Birthday Pre-orders?

[Lil Chillbil]

With my birthday ever drawing closer, apparently all of our relatives have gotten this great idea to each buy me a new game that is coming out this season. Now my question is in regards to whether or not to pre-order them all on steam. or gamestop... 

 

The nostalgic part of me wants to get the physical pc disks, but the smart part of me despises how easily disks break.

 

 

How do pre-orders on steam work anyway?

 

[Wferr]

Go steam gamestop is horrible. The preorders work that you pre order it then you get it when it comes out. simple

[defunkt]

Steam. On steam when you pre-order you download the game but cannot play it. When it comes out you download 50kb or so to activate the game, so you get it instantly.

[T.Vengeance]

Preoders work by you buying the game, then it unlocks the game on release date . For some games, Steam lets you predownload the game, that way on release hour, the steam servers aren't overloaded too much and you don't have to waste time downloading it.

[Camul]

Discs don't break easily, so I don't know what you've been doing to them. Personally I would go with whatever is cheapest. If they are the same price I would get them from Gamestop, especially if it's a Steamworks title.

[Samdb]

Definitely Steam, much better than physical copies in my opinion.

[Villain]

If you pre-order a game on steam, it will be in your library upon release. As far as whether or not to get a physical disk or not, it's entirely subjective. Some will say get the disc, some will say get the digital version. I am always a supporter of digital versions as it is safer and more reliable than having a disc.

[Lil Chillbil]

Discs don't break easily, so I don't know what you've been doing to them. Personally I would go with whatever is cheapest. If they are the same price I would get them from Gamestop, especially if it's a Steamworks title.

 

Siblings...

[T.Vengeance]

Discs don't break easily, so I don't know what you've been doing to them. Personally I would go with whatever is cheapest. If they are the same price I would get them from Gamestop, especially if it's a Steamworks title.

I second this. I got CoD: MW2 back in 2009 as a disk based game, but it activated on Steam. So with reference to @Lil Chillbil, you get the best of both worlds. The physical copy and the downloadable access.

[CoolBeans]

Steam then you don't have to wait in a line for an hour

[Mac]

Steam then you don't have to wait in a line for an hour

If you preorder it online, it usually gets to your house a day before... In the UK anyway.

[CoolBeans]

If you preorder it online, it usually gets to your house a day before... In the UK anyway.

When you order at gamestop?

[Camul]

When you order at gamestop?

 

I assume he's talking about Game or Gamestation. I don't think we have Gamestop in the UK.

[Mac]

When you order at gamestop?

I'm in the UK, so no. I've ordered from pretty much every big store in the UK and it comes a day before, Amazon too.

[MrGidwani]

Quick question, does Origin also allow you download the games early and then have them unlock like Steam? I'm asking because I'm deciding whether I should get physical or download for BF4 and obviously you can only get it through Origin. Let it be noted that my download speed is 50Mb down.

[Camul]

Quick question, does Origin also allow you download the games early and then have them unlock like Steam? I'm asking because I'm deciding whether I should get physical or download for BF4 and obviously you can only get it through Origin. Let it be noted that my download speed is 50Mb down.

 

My friend has pre-ordered BF4 a while back and he said that he hasn't been able to download the game yet, but maybe it's available to download closer to the release date.

[CoolBeans]

I'm in the UK, so no. I've ordered from pretty much every big store in the UK and it comes a day before, Amazon too.

Oh here in Canada we have to go to the store and wait in line.