Any news on a demo?

[knarflook]

Seeing how the release is next month I'm hoping that we'll be able to get a taste of the game before we make any purchase decisions.

[r0m]

yeah. give us a demo

[plaguepenguin]

I can't recall them ever doing a demo before. That doesn't mean it won't happen, but isn't terribly encouraging.

What they are more likely to do to encourage people to buy the thing as early as possible, is to release it early to select YouTubers so that they can put up videos of themselves playing the game. This is going to happen anyway, even if they don't release especially early to influencers, because people who bought the deluxe get the game a week before people who went in for the base game. The usual suspect YouTubers are going to have games up online within 24 hours of the early release.

[Scriba]

Originally posted by plaguepenguin:

I can't recall them ever doing a demo before. That doesn't mean it won't happen, but isn't terribly encouraging.

For Civ 6 they released a demo
https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004498308-What-s-Included-in-the-Civilization-VI-Demo

[Targonis]

Originally posted by Scriba:

Originally posted by plaguepenguin:

I can't recall them ever doing a demo before. That doesn't mean it won't happen, but isn't terribly encouraging.

For Civ 6 they released a demo
https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004498308-What-s-Included-in-the-Civilization-VI-Demo

A demo might come out after the game launches, just for those who might want to see if it will run on their computer. The key is that a demo would delay the launch of the game(support for the Demo has to be provided). I know I'd rather see the demo not show up for a year after launch, just so the focus of the developers stays on the game and not the demo.

[mustard_pretzel]

Originally posted by plaguepenguin:

I can't recall them ever doing a demo before.

Like the other guy said, Civ 6 had a demo. Civ 5 had a demo too, one for the base game as well as one for each subsequent expansion, which is how I ever found out about the franchise. Even Civ 4 Beyond the Sword has a demo. I know you said "can't recall" like you were unsure, but it makes no sense to state something that's simply wrong when it's so easy to check on the store.

I'm firmly off the hype train, but I'll say that the game having no demo would be a shame. It's a relatively minor investment to reach out to individual players (and potential buyers) who have more trust in themselves than in influencers as to what they enjoy playing. I think companies nowadays take for granted the fact that not everyone is willing to shell out a AAA price tag for a game they might not like.

[Shahadem]

There are no demos released anymore for two primary reasons:

1) games sell better when people aren't able to see if the game is good or bad

2) devs are more worried that demos could give pirates an edge on cracking the full release game

[plaguepenguin]

Originally posted by Targonis:

Originally posted by Scriba:

For Civ 6 they released a demo
https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004498308-What-s-Included-in-the-Civilization-VI-Demo

A demo might come out after the game launches, just for those who might want to see if it will run on their computer. The key is that a demo would delay the launch of the game(support for the Demo has to be provided). I know I'd rather see the demo not show up for a year after launch, just so the focus of the developers stays on the game and not the demo.

Well, the site referred to does indeed establish that there was a Civ 6 demo, but the date on the site is in March 2017, while the game was released in Occtober 2016. The blurb for the demo says that the demo is "Same tutorial from base game, but turn-locked to 60 turns." So, this wasn't a pre-release demo, but just a post-release freebie tutorial, presumably so that people could, as suggested, try it out to see if their computers could handle the game.