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Gurgeh Jan 4 @ 10:53am

Demos need to come back, especially among A* titles

Demos need to come back, especially among A* titles.
If this a good game, a demo might get me in. But without a demo its a hard pass.
2 hour refunds are no good.

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orcaa

Jan 4 @ 11:38am

Originally posted by Gurgeh:
Demos need to come back, especially among A* titles.
If this a good game, a demo might get me in. But without a demo its a hard pass.
2 hour refunds are no good.

watch streamers or watch recent gameplay on youtube to get a sense for the game.
Or watch your friends play.

Gurgeh Jan 4 @ 11:44am

Originally posted by orcaa:
Originally posted by Gurgeh:
Demos need to come back, especially among A* titles.
If this a good game, a demo might get me in. But without a demo its a hard pass.
2 hour refunds are no good.

watch streamers or watch recent gameplay on youtube to get a sense for the game.
Or watch your friends play.

Not good enough for me. Not even close. Can't begin to imagine what its like to play, For example I don't ever play games anything like this. On the basis of what I've seen, its just another first person shooter more or less in which case, I don't need to give it another thought. Pass. Tried one of the GTAs, pass. Only first person I've ever finished was one of the wolfensteines.

A demo, might change my mind.

"Watch youtube".
Nope. Demos need to come back.

To be honest I think this game looks really boring. Its just a sci-fi reskin of GTA as far as I can tell. Kill stuff. Blow stuff up. Drive cars around.

But people seem to say its good. So... demo....

Last edited by Gurgeh; Jan 4 @ 11:48am

EricHVela

Jan 4 @ 11:49am

Demos are making a comeback in games where's it's much easier to excise parts of the game to prevent players from exploiting themselves into a free game.

For complicated games where things affect other things throughout the game, demos will likely always be a no-go. CP'77 is a complicated game where taking a butcher's blade to the game to create a demo will break it.

Expect to hard-pass on some of the best games out there going forward.

Gurgeh Jan 4 @ 11:52am

Yeah I think your right. There is lots out there that seems better suited me and a fraction of the price/risk.

m662

Jan 4 @ 11:53am

It is a industry standard that they moved away from and it is not coming back as mainstream strategy as much as I would personally like it.

That is because physical marketing product distribution was the main reason for demos in the past now these days everyone can read up on stuff without relying on word to word or demo drops with magazines. Streamers are the hired marketing workforce of publishers.

The only real place for mainstream where you find still demo's is at expositions and even that is dying out. And yes two hours for these types of games is honestly to short to get a good feel for it. Maybe Steam will relax the standards someday for the refund time who knows.

And yes it is another first person shooter but with a cyberpunk world attached to it. It is story focused outside of combat and the combat is leaning towards the arcade action genre.

Midas

Jan 4 @ 11:58am

Originally posted by EricHVela:
Demos are making a comeback in games where's it's much easier to excise parts of the game to prevent players from exploiting themselves into a free game.

For complicated games where things affect other things throughout the game, demos will likely always be a no-go. CP'77 is a complicated game where taking a butcher's blade to the game to create a demo will break it.

Expect to hard-pass on some of the best games out there going forward.

The game already has that. They could just give the player the intro segment of the game. You're already locked to the Watson area with only a few quests to do. The demo can end when then player would begin The Heist.

wyodinosaur Jan 4 @ 12:18pm

Originally posted by Gurgeh:
Demos need to come back, especially among A* titles.
If this a good game, a demo might get me in. But without a demo its a hard pass.
2 hour refunds are no good.

I agree with you totally, for several reasons: One, of course, is so players could better determine if a game was worthy of purchase. And having demos would reduce piracy.