Back in the days before digital downloads, it was desirable to pre-order the physical disk. Out-of-stocks in-store were not unusual for AAA titles.
Pre-order 1 hour before the beta launch, or 1 hour before full game launch - it depends whether you want to play the beta, or not.
At this time, I plan to wait to see some gameplay/more details. However, if they launched the beta today, I would probably buy it immediately.
I'm awaiting an announcement about Mouse & Keyboard support for PS5, if it doesn't supports it then I will not buy the game. My PC won't support it and I am not upgrading purely for BF2042.
Honestly I was willing to pre-order, it looks very good, but I'm extremely disappointed by the decision to make it "always online". This is the deal breaker for me.
No offline mode for the bots = no purchase. Not now, not ever.
I got burned too many times already by "always online" games. Either crappy performance by busy servers or poor routing, or being locked out at launch because of overwhelmed servers, or problems with my ISP with so many people working from home these days/
"Always online" games are just not worth it.
It's not fun being locked out of the game when the servers are very busy. I have limited spare time at my disposal.
Forced crossplay with PC.
@Lancelot_du_Lac wrote:Back in the days before digital downloads, it was desirable to pre-order the physical disk. Out-of-stocks in-store were not unusual for AAA titles.
Pre-order 1 hour before the beta launch, or 1 hour before full game launch - it depends whether you want to play the beta, or not.
At this time, I plan to wait to see some gameplay/more details. However, if they launched the beta today, I would probably buy it immediately.
Yep if you weren't willing to be at the shop at midnight to pick up your copy of the game then you had to que up with everyone else
Or where one of the luck SoB that got invited to be an Alpha/Beta tester and received instant hero status.
I prefer a solid copy now, it took me 2 days to down load BF4 and a day and a half to down load BF1 compared to half an hour with a disk.
Oh and that two days happened three times with computers dying.
