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Old 07-08-2009, 11:35 AM   #1
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Why is the demo coming out a month after the release?
That's like releasing the trailer of a movie after the full movie has been released. It makes no sense.
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Old 07-08-2009, 12:30 PM   #2
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That's like releasing the trailer of a movie after the full movie has been released. It makes no sense.
Wrong analogy.
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Old 07-08-2009, 12:43 PM   #3
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I think it's a German thing.
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Old 07-08-2009, 01:47 PM   #4
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Good idea. Next year when the game is finished in early June they should release a demo and then wait a month before they release the game. No one here would be upset about that.
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Old 07-08-2009, 02:16 PM   #5
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Don't need no stinking demo!

Buy it, it's well worth it!
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Old 07-08-2009, 03:47 PM   #6
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A company's purpose for releasing a game's demo, and the role which the release of a demo plays in the development process of a particular game, are both highly variable.

As Carlton_Willey said, your analogy fails.
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Old 07-08-2009, 04:46 PM   #7
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A company's purpose for releasing a game's demo, and the role which the release of a demo plays in the development process of a particular game, are both highly variable.

As Carlton_Willey said, your analogy fails.
Company's purpose? What are you talking about? Isn't it about attracting new, potential customers too? And besides, isn't a demo supposed to be a preview of the full product? I'm no hardcore gamer though, so I don't know the policy in that business.
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Old 07-09-2009, 10:46 AM   #8
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Since this game allows to you play the game in full for a peroid of time (game time or real time), it would be impossible for them to release the demo before the game is.
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Why is the demo coming out a month after the release?
Tradition.
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Old 07-09-2009, 12:53 PM   #10
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I wonder when it's coming, I was told early last month, it would be out the first of this month.....
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Old 07-09-2009, 02:20 PM   #11
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I wonder when it's coming, I was told early last month, it would be out the first of this month.....
Who told you that?
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Old 07-09-2009, 02:32 PM   #12
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Well, it's funny now.


I was searching for it, but now it's gone.....but my other thread about the demo is still around, that's kinda weird.

I cant remember the name but he did have ootp dev under his name, probably was an honest mistake, keep in mind this was when the game first came out, first day...I asked and was told exactly one month from that date, which was the 1st.


no big deal though
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Company's purpose? What are you talking about?
Frequently, companies make available demo versions of games whose full versions are not yet ready for release. I assume that this is what you were referring to, with your movie trailer analogy. At other times, companies release demos after games have already been available, as a light version of the whole game. The "purpose" for releasing the demo is the same in both cases, but there are two separate circumstances and approaches, which result in differing demo release dates. Pardon me for not being clear.
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Old 07-09-2009, 05:14 PM   #14
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Well, it's funny now.


I was searching for it, but now it's gone.....but my other thread about the demo is still around, that's kinda weird.

I cant remember the name but he did have ootp dev under his name, probably was an honest mistake, keep in mind this was when the game first came out, first day...I asked and was told exactly one month from that date, which was the 1st.


no big deal though
The game wasn't released on the 1st of June.

The only thing said about the Demo was approximately one month after release, approximately being the key word.
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Tradition.
And there it is. Only took us eight replies to get to it.
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Because Marcus says so...but I like how Malleus Dei puts it as well.
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