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No Far Cry 2 Demo
[Jul 11, 2008, 9:24 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Eurogamer has word from Ubisoft's Clint Hocking that we should not expect a demo version of Far Cry 2, as this is another of those open-world style games the won't readily scale to a sample version: "One reason is, even if we were to give out what you played today - even if we put invisible walls around it and said, here's the demo, you can go anywhere you like inside these walls and play it how you want - that's potentially right there eight-to-ten hours of gameplay. I don't know too many people who are willing to give away a 12-hour game for free."

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Jul 11, 2008, 22:53

Umbragen

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Re: ... Jul 11, 2008, 22:53

Jul 11, 2008, 22:53

Umbragen

What a lousy excuse.

I agree. He should have just said something like: 'because of the game's design a demo was impossible' or even, 'releasing a demo would amount to giving away the game'. He could have just told that truth, that making a demo was more work than they were willing to do, but truth is anathema to marketing.

This way he just comes off as a feckless, greedy bastard.