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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: How it went down.

Aug 30, 2003, 17:35

human

rock climber, meezy, you fucking IDIOTS crying that the sky has fallen because of this...take a fucking simple economics class and learn about what capitalism is before you blabble away mindlessly for paragraphs about how this is stifling the free market. The real free market, not the false Reaganite one, absolutely DEPENDS on consumer choice and the free flow of information. We are supposed to vote with our pocketbooks, and gaming sites have the right to refuse to do business with something that they disapprove of. You guys don't like it? Then I think you'd live well in some fascist country where the state-run supermarket can charge anything it likes and you will pay for it because there is no other choice. The Fileplanet-Activision agreement was not some little venture; it did make money, I am sure, but it was also a counterproductve step for Activision. You whine that people are now just expecting 'everything' to be free. It was a GAME DEMO, for god's sake. Did you forget that? Just as Activision's PR liaison said, they have always been free, because that is in the publisher's interest for it to be so. Publishers WILL foot the bill for demo distribution, because it's simply another (comparitively small) expense of advertising, and those developers who insist on counter-productive demo distribution mechanisms which piss of the public will, eventually, go bankrupt. THAT is the free market, not your bullshit 'oh if you cared at all for this country you'd pay fileplanet to get your demo'.

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Comment [quote="human"Aug 30, 2003, 17:35]rock climber, meezy, you fucking IDIOTS crying that the sky has fallen because of this...take a fucking simple economics class and learn about what capitalism is before you blabble away mindlessly for paragraphs about how this is stifling the free market. The real free market, not the false Reaganite one, absolutely DEPENDS on consumer choice and the free flow of information. We are supposed to vote with our pocketbooks, and gaming sites have the right to refuse to do business with something that they disapprove of. You guys don't like it? Then I think you'd live well in some fascist country where the state-run supermarket can charge anything it likes and you will pay for it because there is no other choice. The Fileplanet-Activision agreement was not some little venture; it did make money, I am sure, but it was also a counterproductve step for Activision. You whine that people are now just expecting 'everything' to be free. It was a GAME DEMO, for god's sake. Did you forget that? Just as Activision's PR liaison said, they have always been free, because that is in the publisher's interest for it to be so. Publishers WILL foot the bill for demo distribution, because it's simply another (comparitively small) expense of advertising, and those developers who insist on counter-productive demo distribution mechanisms which piss of the public will, eventually, go bankrupt. THAT is the free market, not your bullshit 'oh if you cared at all for this country you'd pay fileplanet to get your demo'. [/quote]

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