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This is just another symptom of the literacy crisis (specifically media literacy in this case). These people don’t understand what advertising/marketing is, what it does, or how it works. Anyone who even thinks for just a brief moment about preordering GTA (especially since its distribution is online-only) needs to pause and reflect on what caused them to think that.
anyone who preorders a game before the review embargo should be flogged
I pre-order all my games just to spite Hexbear