You forgot a bonus point:

• Hardware requirements are now easier/cheaper to meet/exceed.

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Cons:

• maybe multiplayer isn’t very populated if you wait too long

• ???

Remember when games used to, at least sometimes… do actual internal beta testing to iron out performance bugs and such?

Now we are all alpha and beta testers, all the time.

Sometimes even AAA and ‘AAAA’ games release, and then unrelease before the alpha or beta is even done!

Yeah, patient gaming for me, haven’t preordered or gone into an early access game in almost a decade now…