Demo?

[Tartyron]

Will there be some form of demo before release?
Of course without all mayor mechanics.

Just tutorial and one small map with preset race and opponent?

[Trdomir]

Or at least race and character creation demo. Like saint row have.

[Lamiosa]

I already preordered the premium edition, because being a huge fan of age of wonders, but I would really welcome a demo to shorten the waiting time a little bit.

[Tartyron]

Originally posted by Lamiosa:

I already preordered the premium edition, because being a huge fan of age of wonders, but I would really welcome a demo to shorten the waiting time a little bit.

Same here

[darkholyPL]

A demo would also be great for people who just want to see how well (or how bad) the game will run on their systems.

I have no idea why demo's fell out of favour this days. Back in the day pretty much every pc game had a demo, and a good deal of console games had one as well.
Now it's a rare thing, and mostly on the indie side.

[Gaius]

Originally posted by darkholyPL:

I have no idea why demo's fell out of favour this days. Back in the day pretty much every pc game had a demo, and a good deal of console games had one as well.
Now it's a rare thing, and mostly on the indie side.

To be honest they are making a comeback, at least in games with lower marketing budgets, probably to avoid the huge devolution numbers before 2 hours too.

But yeah, I miss when almost every game had demos. I remember buying PC gamer just to get those CDs with dozens of them, including the first time I saw and played C&C: Red Alert and was flabergasted. Good times.

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Originally posted by darkholyPL:

A demo would also be great for people who just want to see how well (or how bad) the game will run on their systems.

I have no idea why demo's fell out of favour this days. Back in the day pretty much every pc game had a demo, and a good deal of console games had one as well.
Now it's a rare thing, and mostly on the indie side.

They mostly fell out of favor once hype based marketing became the way to sell games, since a company could just focus on the day one patch instead of building a stable demo version that allowed players to see how good or bad the game was.

In short, it's easier to win customers by playing on their hopes and imaginations, then it is to win them over by allowing them to try a game to see if they like it before buying.