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Originally Posted by toddgregory
As consumers, we might be better served to NOT preorder.(its not like they are only making a limited number of games each year). Eliminate the significant amount of money that OOTP realizes from preorders (the discount they offer probably pales in comparision to the amount of interest they have accumulated off preorder funds since February 19th) and I guarantee they will announce a hard release date and stick to it in the future.
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Look you have the right to post your opinion and in part I agree with you but please do some basic math before you make a silly statement like the above.
Let's say 2000 copies sold at $30 (I know that different countries may pay more).
2000 X 30 = 60,000 invest at 3.25% (that's current prime rate, I don't know anyone who could get that without locking up the funds for some time).
$60,000 at 3.25% = $1950/4 = $487.50 is the realized interest for 3 months (Feb 19 to May 19). Even if you double the presale to 4000 copies he would not clear $1000 in interest.
Now that doesn't factor that he has to pay himself, and the employees/partner.
He pays Elicense off the top line for every copy sold. He pays bandwidth, credit card fees etc. It is very unlikely that any of that money is sitting in an investment account getting any interest at all.
I get frustrated too and pre-ordering is voluntary. I see it as an investment in a very small company that I want to keep in business. YMMV.
