There's no incentive to quit releasing unpolished garbage so this is no real surprise. If people would start putting their money where their brain is maybe we could see change.
I'm sorry, but I can't do that. If you have a friend with a gambling problem, drug habit, or is just piss poor at managing their money do you just stay silent and watch, letting them continue to screw themselves over? What about if their spending habits start affecting your life?
As for the "misconception", let's look at Deus Ex. So Deus Ex preorders hit their high, the game comes out 4 days early!... But it's not ready yet. Lots of bugs, game breaking glitches, graphic errors, rough textures and a broken mp. But who cares, the money has been put down, the sales are pretty much guaranteed. A delay not only breaks Square's pre order agreement but gives people time to pull their money away for another purchase, or cancel the pre order from a lack of hype or whatever reason. Release the game broken, who cares they'll just fix it months after they've pocketed all those $60+ pre order and first week sales. Reviews don't matter, they haven't made a difference yet and the bulk of consumers don't read/watch them anyway.
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of viable reasons to put down a pre order, from limited runs and special editions that are in short supply to it just being a way of slowly paying off a game over time 'cause you're just the kind of person that needs to do that. But just pre ordering just because, for games that will never be in short supply and " day one" editions that will be available for years, is ridiculous and sends the message that you'll buy in no matter what it turns out to be. And then I/b] have to deal with the ramifications, then I have to wait months for the patches and fixes and hope beyond hope that enough is taken care of that it will be in a rightly playable state. It would just be nice if people would stop selling out for some stupid piece of digital in-game crap and hold some of these companies to some kind of higher expectation.