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look at just cause2. pretty sure the demo sold that game.
It did for me. Awesome demo. Same for Batman: AA and most likely Mafia 2. We need moar demos!
i played re-volt demo 24hours daily. until the retail came and i bought it. best game ever!!
It did for me. Awesome demo. Same for Batman: AA and most likely Mafia 2. We need moar demos!
But isn't that the point of a demo if it allowed you to make a decision to not buy a game that you might not like? Not every game is for everyone, since people have different tastes, which is why demos would be a better indicator then reviews/word of mouth.
Yeah, but what publisher wants you to decide to *not* buy their game? Even if you don't like it, what do they care? You can't un-buy it.
Really? I played the Just Cause 2 demo, and it made me not want to buy the game. They set you up in this little minicamp, and then give you absolutely no clue what your objective is. I proceeded to go explore and just shoot whatever was moving, which gets old after a bit.
I was not impressed with the world - the ground in-between enemy bases seemed barren to me, and felt more like a game from 2006 (Oblivion had more realistic ground cover than Just Cause 2, and it runs on lesser hardware). If I'm expected to travel between my destnations in real time, they could at least give me something pretty to look at. Also, the much-touted Nvidia GPU water effect was inaccessible to me because the ocean was outside the demo zone.
Other things I didn't like: for some reason, I couldn't shoot very well as I was crouched. Also, I found the 3rd-person view confusing, because it was hard to remember if I was in zoom mode or not (this is obvious with a first-person perspective).
In this case, the demo didn't sell me on anything.
So yeah, I'm glad I didn't spend 50 bucks. I might buy the game at 20, but not a dollar more. From this experience, I rarely pay full price for a game without a demo.
Seriously, that demo was awesome! Online play with 4 levels! I played it a ton.How about when a demo is so good that no one wants (needs) to buy the real game? I remember playing UT99 demo for almost a year before obtaining the retail version. Those were the days...
Demos, in general, don't get people to buy games. They do, however, make people not buy them.
Demos, in general, don't get people to buy games. They do, however, make people not buy them.
Not buy them because the game sucks.
Same rule apply when someone torrents a game.
I tend to believe that when someone torrents a game though, that even if though don't complete the game, they still play more of it than what the demo offered.
If the game stunk so bad, why'd they play so much of it?
My brother worked for Pizza Hut. People would call in and complain about their pizza and want a refund. He'd ask them to bring in the uneaten portion so they could see what may have been wrong with it. They couldn't, as they ate the whole thing.
How bad could it have been if they ate the whole pizza?