[General Discussion] Forced Pre-Order Picks '07

I personally, am a sucker for pre-ordering. I don't like wasting my time, gas, and effort of going to a gamestore and finding out that the game I want is out of stock.

Previously in the past, Final Fantasy VIII~X and Dragon Quest VIII were all games I've purchased through reserving a copy at the game store. One reason being that my family has owned nothing but Japanese consols, so making sure that stock wasn't going to be an issue was the biggest factor in deciding to pre-order it.

My family isn't all that into gaming, so if there's a game we see that we're intrigued upon, we like making sure that it'll be available for us.

On that note going back to the subject, I agree with the majority that World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has probably generated the most amount of sales/interest in pre-ordering a copy. Most likely a difference to TBC vs. a console game is that it's an expansion that allows for further content. For most people who've been playing WoW for some amount of months and are at max level, it's kind of pointless to continue playing if they don't buy the expansion, so we pretty much don't have a choice.

Other than that, I can probably put my money down on pre-ordering Final Fantasy XIII in the future for some umpteen-rediculous amount of dollars, but I don't quite know for sure. I haven't had much of any time to widely invest any of it to gaming, so it's quite a possibility that my life would allow to wait until the games go for clearance price.

How ya doing, buddy?