No Far Cry 2 Demo [Jul 11, 2008, 8:24 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."
"I don't know too many people who are willing to give away a 12-hour game for free."
Gee that's funny, I do know many people who would give you a 12 hour demo and they just happen to be people who made the biggest PC games of all time. Doom, the Quake series, Unreal Tournament, Diablo 2, most MMOs, the Battlefield series. I could go on.
There have been claims by the developer that FC2 will have 50+ hours of game play, and now they are saying they won't give even 1/5th of that to demo?
This sounds like laziness to me and I am sure in he following months after it's release they'll be crying the game didn't sell well and blame the pirates again without thinking that there was a reason people decided to "demo" the game via usenet and bittorrent
I think if they really want to put their best foot forward offering a demo is a must. If there are some issues offering a because of the way the game is set up, then there are ways around that.
Looks like the real reason PC gaming is dying is arrogance.
Gee that's funny, I do know many people who would give you a 12 hour demo and they just happen to be people who made the biggest PC games of all time. Doom, the Quake series, Unreal Tournament, Diablo 2, most MMOs, the Battlefield series. I could go on.
There have been claims by the developer that FC2 will have 50+ hours of game play, and now they are saying they won't give even 1/5th of that to demo?
This sounds like laziness to me and I am sure in he following months after it's release they'll be crying the game didn't sell well and blame the pirates again without thinking that there was a reason people decided to "demo" the game via usenet and bittorrent
I think if they really want to put their best foot forward offering a demo is a must. If there are some issues offering a because of the way the game is set up, then there are ways around that.
Looks like the real reason PC gaming is dying is arrogance.
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