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If it allows you to pre-download it so you can play as soon as it's available it makes some sense.
That's what I thought. But after pre-ordering a game recently, when I went to launch, the process of unpacking/unencrypting took at least as long as downloading the thing from scratch.
So if you've a good internet connection and a mid cpu like me, pre-downloading is not an advantage.