Pre-Ordering is a contradiction.
by Crom
Fuck you pre-ordering. Fuck you entirely in your stupid ass.
Pre-Ordering is a joke, and if you've done it, you should feel angry, because a company has tricked you. It varies how much they tricked you, but trick you they did. There's a fundamental flaw in the concept of paying for something that you won't get for a month.
When I go into a shop with cash in hand, and give it to the counter jockey in the hopes of getting a product, either they have it, or they do not. In which case they have my money....or they do not. If I walk out without the product in question, in a plastic bag, surrounded by impenetrable shrink wrap, then I have been robbed. Money that was mine has been taken from me, and in exchange I have absolutely NOTHING. That is in fact the definition of being robbed, To deprive unjustly of something belonging to, desired by, or legally due (someone).
What I find even more amusing is companies like EB who, if a customer is in the store demanding a copy on release day, and you haven't come to get yours, will SELL your pre-order, to guarantee the sale. What the FUCK is that? If I were foolish enough to trust an investment to these fucking cretins in the first place, and then arrived at their shop on the day the eagle lands, and those scurrilous fucks have SOLD the merchandise that I already paid for, I wouldn't leave a single living person in the shop, perhaps even in the entire MALL. I would slay everything in a bloodrage, and then urinate on the broken husk of the counter monkey that deprived me of my due.
See through the bullshit, or it will destroy you.