Path: ...!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:14:56 +0000
From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: I don't understand pre-orders. Do you preorder?
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:14:47 -0500
Message-ID: <khckqjt49gquc3sibdoobdf66r5fc0c14h@4ax.com>
References: <20bcqjdfs1p5l88s03ujm97p1ljtqlqbat@4ax.com> <d61c66644eca91de9b55ce4cdd270cd99cface35@i2pn2.org> <vqakqjhu80vafrmlh1bth0dg1dif7hpmjv@4ax.com>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 37
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: sv3-YgphpSQQwHOdZDRqol22PiHw/jIfJxJ+nJ2zq/WJycMRWHdies0jVvVDfJLCpFR2fspaD/r/APGhWpw!zEj8cr1dWG4lthMB73+I88bPkNZRWD+tUWtAtUfddZnDBhY73ZV0sTohMc5q6TkC18cQOSrg
X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com
X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
Bytes: 2446

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:38:01 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:35:56 -0800, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>Justisaur wrote: 
>
>>On 2/7/2025 8:03 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
>>
>>> I guess what I'm really asking is does anyone here pre-order... and WHY?
>>> Do you get anything out of it?
>>
>>Nope, closest I've come is buying Fallout 3 on day 1, and I sure feel I 
>>would've been better off waiting.  I do have a lunchbox and bobblehead 
>>for my trouble though as they only had whatever edition had those extras 
>>at the Gamestop I bought it from.

>Please tell me it came in the lunchbox.

Heheh. I have that lunchbox! I'm a sucker for game-boxes made out of
metal.  ;-)

I don't know if I got it on launch-day, but I definitely didn't
pre-order it. I do recall they were available for long after the game
came out, sitting dustily and unwanted on store shelves, waiting for
some sucker (like me!) to buy them.

I was always tempted to use the lunchbox for its intended purpose
(carrying a lunch!) but I never did. Not because I thought it was
silly, but the damn thing was just too bulky. So, like its unpurchased
brethren, my box sat on a shelf collecting dust ;-)

The game was fun, though.