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Call of Duty Demo Today - No Exclusive

[Aug 29, 2003, 02:01 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Activision sends along news that the Call of Duty demo at the center of last night's firestorm (story) will be released this evening all across the internet, with no exclusivity. Here's the deal:

The recent reaction to the upcoming Call of Duty demo has caught us here at Activision by surprise. We're appreciative and excited about the high level of enthusiasm the game has received throughout the gaming community. Due to the tremendous demand for the demo – we are answering the call by not only making the demo freely available to all gamers at the same time, but early – This Friday Night - just in time for the long weekend.

Gamespy has been a great partner - working with us so that we can make our fans happy and give them a taste of a game they're clearly excited about. The demo will be available across the net on fan and gaming coverage sites, including GameSpy's FilePlanet.

We think you'll love Call of Duty, and we can't wait for you to play the demo. Look for it Friday night!

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Re: Lame

Aug 29, 2003, 20:25

Bob

It's lame because they shouldn't have caved under the pressure. It just encourages people to bitch about the next website-exclusive demo they want to play. "Oh my God, I can't play the Deer Hunter demo for 5 more days!". Tough shit, buddy. We're not talking about Mother Teresa-type patience here. And it's not like they HAVE to give you a demo, either. They are doing you a favor, which makes it twice as stupid when people whine about it. Games like Morrowind never had a demo and it did just fine (there's already 2 expansions), so it's hard to say for sure that a demo is going to make them more money (alot of demos do the opposite).

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Comment [quote="Bob"Aug 29, 2003, 20:25]It's lame because they shouldn't have caved under the pressure. It just encourages people to bitch about the next website-exclusive demo they want to play. "Oh my God, I can't play the Deer Hunter demo for 5 more days!". Tough shit, buddy. We're not talking about Mother Teresa-type patience here. And it's not like they HAVE to give you a demo, either. They are doing you a favor, which makes it twice as stupid when people whine about it. Games like Morrowind never had a demo and it did just fine (there's already 2 expansions), so it's hard to say for sure that a demo is going to make them more money (alot of demos do the opposite). [/quote]

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