Point Streak Podcast: Pre-Orders
No extras, no incentives, no gimmicks, just Point Streak.
Point Streak returns and homes in on a target that is scarcely ever boring – gaming Pre-Orders. Are they anti-consumer? Anti-common sense? Is there such thing as a decent/fair incentive to lay dow your money in advance for a game? Jeff, Jennifer, Goose, Chris and Vernon try to sort it out:
The link to stream or download the MP3 format is: Pre-Orders
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Point Streak is a podcast where we discuss varying topics involving the gaming industry. Jeff (Baron Fang) selects a team to handle some topics that either are avoided by others or aren’t popular enough to be discussed by mainstream video game news. It is, indeed, a podcast based on opinions and should be taken as such.
Well, it was good to see the “Augment Your Per-order” was canceled.
As far as what could be done to make pre-ordering more palatable, the used book store I frequent (2nd and Charles) that also sells video games will give you $10 of in-store credit if you pre-order with them.
Best Buy used to do that, I think. I don’t know if they still do. I never used it.