

Of course it is possible that everyone pays for the hardware anyhow but it is not necessarily the case.
It is necessarily the case. No company incurs the cost of making something, delivers it and then just hopes that someone pays for it. You literally can’t do business that way.





I’ve gotten so much out of NMS by now that I would prepay for Light No Fire and not care of it wasn’t playable for 5 years.
But, I don’t blame them for being cautious and it cements my “loyalty“.
Contrast with Subnautica which I might have said the same about until they sold out to Krafton and the ensuing drama.