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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7240428" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>I don't understand your reasoning. What I mean is, I understand it, I just don't get how you think it's rational that you should be given the same rewards for waiting as those that essentially take the risk to subsidize the product offering. Pre-ordering is a risk, one you feel isn't worthwhile due to the chance that you pay full price for a bum product. That's rational. What's not is then becoming upset that incentives provided for pre-ordering should also be offered to you for not pre-ordering, and that not doing so is somehow screwing you over. That's just ridiculous.</p><p></p><p>And pre-ordering is a very useful tool for product developers -- it helps define the needed infrastructure and delivery costs they'll have to lay out before they get any return. If they get strong pre-orders, it helps defray the cash flow issues they face manufacturing and delivering the product. This is true in digital space as well, as it helps understand the needed bandwidth for content delivery (and even allows pre-delivery that's time locked, which reduces server stress on release as well). Granted, D&D products have low digital overhead, being print products, but even then it helps Curse understand how much they need to have on hand for bandwidth on release and also helps them cement their new service all while defraying cashflow issues. The incentives for pre-order are entirely rational from the company's point of view -- loss of revenue from the offer is offset by guaranteed and immediate revenue and better understanding of the delivery scale and costs.</p><p></p><p>What you're doing here is insisting that not only should the company offering the products you want take all of the risks and operate in an uncertain delivery model (which can lead to shortages and overages, both costly to the company) while you demand that you should also get all of the incentives the company might offer for pre-order. It's petulant and selfish.</p><p></p><p>You might not like having to make a choice of pre-ordering something you might not like or being sure you'll like it but missing out on the incentives, and that's fine, but I have to warn you that life is going to be very disappointing for you, what with the constant stream of choices about risks, rewards, and opportunity costs. You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 7240428, member: 16814"] I don't understand your reasoning. What I mean is, I understand it, I just don't get how you think it's rational that you should be given the same rewards for waiting as those that essentially take the risk to subsidize the product offering. Pre-ordering is a risk, one you feel isn't worthwhile due to the chance that you pay full price for a bum product. That's rational. What's not is then becoming upset that incentives provided for pre-ordering should also be offered to you for not pre-ordering, and that not doing so is somehow screwing you over. That's just ridiculous. And pre-ordering is a very useful tool for product developers -- it helps define the needed infrastructure and delivery costs they'll have to lay out before they get any return. If they get strong pre-orders, it helps defray the cash flow issues they face manufacturing and delivering the product. This is true in digital space as well, as it helps understand the needed bandwidth for content delivery (and even allows pre-delivery that's time locked, which reduces server stress on release as well). Granted, D&D products have low digital overhead, being print products, but even then it helps Curse understand how much they need to have on hand for bandwidth on release and also helps them cement their new service all while defraying cashflow issues. The incentives for pre-order are entirely rational from the company's point of view -- loss of revenue from the offer is offset by guaranteed and immediate revenue and better understanding of the delivery scale and costs. What you're doing here is insisting that not only should the company offering the products you want take all of the risks and operate in an uncertain delivery model (which can lead to shortages and overages, both costly to the company) while you demand that you should also get all of the incentives the company might offer for pre-order. It's petulant and selfish. You might not like having to make a choice of pre-ordering something you might not like or being sure you'll like it but missing out on the incentives, and that's fine, but I have to warn you that life is going to be very disappointing for you, what with the constant stream of choices about risks, rewards, and opportunity costs. You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. [/QUOTE]
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