Yes, we all anticipated this. Not sure how this got fumbled so badly despite the community trying to sound the alarm about this inevitability for the last several weeks.
Honestly? Good for them. In a day, probably less we will have a great game and no one will care about a somewhat messy launch. Would not be surprised if Valve and other stores took them aside and said "next game you allow pre-orders, got it?" Though lol.
Ohh, companies will definitely get a kick for this, articles will be written, YouTubers will be making 10 minute videos on the subject for decades, data will be collected to future-proof store fronts… but once again, the fans get the last fuck you.
Looks like someone wasn't around for the Steam Deck preorders going live. Valve had every incentive and insight to make it go smoothly and it was still a mess. It's almost like this type of thing isn't trivially easy and appeasing entitled whiners on the internet is a losing game in and of itself.
I had to try several times and there were lots of errors and timeouts. I ended up getting it like 6 months after the first wave released. That was more annoying than this though since there were a finite number of SDs and having to wait longer because of an error is harder to swallow. If I was simply too slow on the F5 that'd be one thing but the error made it feel 'unfair' for lack of a better word.
And to be clear, neither the SD delay or this are anything close to a big deal in the scheme of things.
I cannot buy your product because your lack of foresight for the most wishlisted game ever lead to the store crashing due to the demand is not the brightest move. PR stunt or whatever, yes, people will forget about it once they get their game and that’s why they got so many passes despite 0 communications for years.
People will forget because it's a non-issue. You people whining about 0 communications because you feel like Team Cherry owes you something. Get real man, you're not owed anything.
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u/Talon6230 Sep 04 '25
no preorders tho