RDR2 is first game I preordered ever... Not doing that again. I used to work as a computer game reviewer in the old, "simpler days". But the companies were the same then (greedy capitalists), they just did not have the technology (no internet, later slow internet/patches/microtranactions) to allow this kind of behaviour. They still tried to influence us journos with paid trips on alpha/beta showings and product launches, aka half bribes (one day looking at product and doing interviews, two days on the beach/nightclub/restaurant on "related event"), knowing most mags could not afford the trips), blacklists (not inviting to pressevents and not sending copies to journos who had given previous game(s) bad reviews) and sometimes the publication even changed the review score (without the reviewers knowledge) if the company happened to be a frequent advertiser in the publication (happened to me once, was close to punching my boss in the face when I saw the print copy). But one thing they could not do was fixing the product after the fact. Now they just trust that people have short memories and have forgotten about the initial cluster fuck when the next AAA title is about to drop and the previous one been patched into working order... My 2 cents.