Ironically since there is no preorder bonus there is no reason whatsoever to preorder digital version - its not like you will be unable to get it at launch.
Partially agree. I believe preorders allows devs to make some of their own estimations. Amount of future sales, budget, "hype", confidence in "direction", whatever else. But yes, because there is no bonuses, there is no real profit for players to preorder, except "it" already in your launcher, so no need to spend some moneys on it in future.
What is you guys want? Their first trailer is at 15 mill on Youtube and second is at 7.7 mill. So players know this game for sure. Marketing has been done so to speak. Good or bad launch is much bigger issue now. How buggy the launch is etc.
Gotta say though this forum is kinda quiet only 12 weeks to launch...
I would say, "fair marketing". I don't think it was really fair to show for some people 25-45min long demo and for others only 15min demo with a lot of cuts and montage. Well, I can understand it in terms of "exclusivity", but 2019 demo for now something like 7 months old, so in some aspects it would not represent current game quality and it feels like even if they release this video at some point, it will be wasted. And you can't say that there is no marketing at all. Last ARG, as example. Every time you don't know what with ARG will end up so there is was speculations that the last one (before the new year) will lead to the new "old" gameplay. Game launch is something that probably will happen 12 weeks later. During this, would be great to get some screenshots, some new interviews, further announcements of voice actors for localisations (this is my personal, since some was already announced but not for my native language yet) and so on. Demo would be great, but any other real activity also would be great.