The game you’ve been wanting for months hasn’t been released and 30 quid is burning a hole in your pocket and you’ve somehow convinced yourself that to leave empty-handed would be an embarrassing failure. we’ve all had them - when you’re standing in a shop.
I’ll wager, is a combination of all these things. Here is a question every games publisher in the world would love to hear the answer to: what compels people to spend their hard earned money on a particular computer game? An advert? An informative, entertaining and grammatically impeccable review by yours truly, perhaps? Word of mouth? The answer.