"Sweet what a great idea! Next time I go car shopping I can pay the dealer for the exclusive right to test drive his vehicle. I mean after all I'm putting miles on it and using gas. Why shouldn't I pay? What a great deal! Maybe later Microsoft can release a new controller. It should be a USB foot connected to a hydraulic ram. Then I could pay say 500 Microsoft points for a kick to the ****!"
[QUOTE="Funconsole"]Simple logic here. Give me free demo...I buy full game. Give me paid demo...I dont buy game* *Some exceptions apply!* Tell that to the GT5 people that will see their game in 5 years!
"The whole reason behind the idea of PDLC from the developer and publisher prospective is to recoup the money hemorrhaged in the development of said demo." Then don't release a one. It's your call: make the demo for the extra marketing and hope it attracts more buyers for the retail product, or don't do it and save some cash. If demos ever start costing money I hope gamers everywhere boycot the idea entirely.
I don't see buying demos here, just no demos and lots of episodic content, buy small peices and if you don't like it no large loss but you've got more to play with then a normal demo. Which isn't bad either, a game like brutal legend could have had a slightly larger demo to see its RTS roots and instead came off like an action game. In fact as soon as you get past that first area its practically wildly different experiences. And are they really complaining about costs, most demos are the first level of the game, OMG its going to cost us a days worth of work to take out the extra levels and add pictures of them saying BUY IT.
All of this talk about paying for a demo is making me sad :(.millerlight89
Same here, sad that we will well havet to pay for demos sooner or later, Paying to play online, Gotta pay for demos, gotta pay for DLC what is gaming coming too. Maybe it is cheaper to be a PC gamer from this prespective.
Analyst: EA To Release Paid DLC Prior To Packaged Game Launches After an investor visit with Electronic Arts, analyst Michael Pachter said that the publisher is planning a strategy that will involve selling "premium downloadable content" before a packaged game's release. According to a Monday investor note from Wedbush Morgan's Pachter, Nick Earl, general manager of EA-owned Dead Space studio Visceral Games, revealed the new strategy. Pachter wrote, "The PDLC would be sold for $10 or $15 through Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, and would essentially be a very long game demo, along the lines of 2009's Battlefield 1943." He added, "A full-blown packaged game would follow shortly after the release of the PDLC, bearing a full retail price. Mr. Earl believes that the release of the PDLC first limits the risk of completing and marketing the full packaged version, and serves as a low-cost marketing tool."
Analyst: EA To Release Paid DLC Prior To Packaged Game Launches After an investor visit with Electronic Arts, analyst Michael Pachter said that the publisher is planning a strategy that will involve selling "premium downloadable content" before a packaged game's release. According to a Monday investor note from Wedbush Morgan's Pachter, Nick Earl, general manager of EA-owned Dead Space studio Visceral Games, revealed the new strategy. Pachter wrote, "The PDLC would be sold for $10 or $15 through Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, and would essentially be a very long game demo, along the lines of 2009's Battlefield 1943." He added, "A full-blown packaged game would follow shortly after the release of the PDLC, bearing a full retail price. Mr. Earl believes that the release of the PDLC first limits the risk of completing and marketing the full packaged version, and serves as a low-cost marketing tool."
the ONLY way id pay for a demo is if the cost of the demo came off the overall price of the game. otherwise **** that.....
A demo is a sample. Who the heck pays for samples?
IWKYB
The funny thing is the whole non-free DLC started with comments like this now everybody pays for what the companies "forgot" to put in.
Yeah maybe but when i watch some interviews they always ask "is it multiplayer, will you release DLC?" so the developer feels forced to add stuff like that to make crowd happy.
Now that I think about it..the only way I would probably pay for a demo is if it was intergrated with PSN service plan along with other stuff like faster downloads,DLC,ETC then maybe this would be justifible for a PS3 user like myself... BUT for 360 users there aint no way you can justify that since you guys already pay for live as it is.
Now that I think about it..the only way I would probably pay for a demo is if it was intergrated with PSN service plan along with other stuff like faster downloads,DLC,ETC then maybe this would be justifible for a PS3 user like myself... BUT for 360 users there aint no way you can justify that since you guys already pay for live as it is.
Santesyu
Better online service. Maybe in the next gen sony will make better decisions and they will actually make a profit when they sell a console.
I wouldnt NOT BUY the game because of a paid demo, if i was gonna buy the game without the demo. thats just dumb imo. but yea, I nearly always dl the demo before I buy a game, and I would not download the demo (100% sure of that). So yea, I would not pay for a demo. I would just have to try to try the game at a friend's house, read reviews, ask on forums, etc.
Now that I think about it..the only way I would probably pay for a demo is if it was intergrated with PSN service plan along with other stuff like faster downloads,DLC,ETC then maybe this would be justifible for a PS3 user like myself... BUT for 360 users there aint no way you can justify that since you guys already pay for live as it is.
IWKYB
Better online service. Maybe in the next gen sony will make better decisions and they will actually make a profit when they sell a console. lmao dude I wasnt even talking about 360 vs ps3, stop showing your fan boy colors.
Now that I think about it..the only way I would probably pay for a demo is if it was intergrated with PSN service plan along with other stuff like faster downloads,DLC,ETC then maybe this would be justifible for a PS3 user like myself... BUT for 360 users there aint no way you can justify that since you guys already pay for live as it is.
Santesyu
Better online service. Maybe in the next gen sony will make better decisions and they will actually make a profit when they sell a console. lmao dude I wasnt even talking about 360 vs ps3, stop showing your fan boy colors. I hate fatchan not sony.
[QUOTE="IWKYB"][QUOTE="Funconsole"]Simple logic here. Give me free demo...I buy full game. Give me paid demo...I dont buy game* *Some exceptions apply!*XboximusPrime
Tell that to the GT5 people that will see their game in 5 years!
.... I like Prolouge.
Prologue has more content than most full titles. Its not a demo.
I can't imagine why any one would ever pay for a demo.
Even if it's "just" $5, I don't get it. For about $8 you can rent the full game for a week, and maybe even finish it in that time. You'll get a much better idea of the overall product than a demo would ever give, aswell.
Prologue has more content than most full titles. Its not a demo. such as?
I wouldent call this a demo "Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III features 16-player online races, over 70 cars (including tuned cars), 6 tracks, 12 layouts"
PGR3 for example has 80 cars and its a full priced title.
Need for Speed Shift has a little over 60 cars, and 19 tracks.
So i dont think its a demo, simply prologue for fans who wait on the full title.
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