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."
Well fuck those guys. Id gave away a full one-THIRD of the original Doom, and we all know how successful that was.Interesting you'd bring that up, because the whole problem of Far Cry 2's demo made me think of Burnout Paradise's demo. The problem you have is that they're both games where it might not make make much sense to have just a small portion of the game available. It will just be crap.
Looking back at Burnout, they'd probably have done better not releasing a demo than the pile of junk they put out there, as it gave people the wrong impression of the final game. So I definitely think this is the "safe" route for the FC2 creators. It would be interesting to see the results if someone decided to give away a huge chunk of their game as a demo again; say one third. I bet it would work a whole lot better than some butchered wreck that barely resembles the full game.
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