Once you pre-purchase a game, the corporations get closer to their sales goals promised to shareholders early - that disincentivizes them to clean up broken games, or add promised content, etc because it costs more.
They want to reduce costs as much as possible while increasing sales as much as possible - that’s how corporations work. If we only purchase based on the quality of the games versus the amount of hype, it will start incentivizing these dumb execs to create quality content rather than hyped content as a motivator for sales instead.
That’s why they disproportionately pour so much money into marketing vs actual development. Change our behavior first, then they will change theirs.
Seriously, God of War is already a much more enjoyable experience on PC than it was on it’s initial release and even more patches are on the way.
Glad they don’t seem to be in the mentality of ‘oh, people will play and buy it anyway’ and leave their ports in broken or annoying-to-play states.