Release the demo to the public..

[Andbrew]

To be honest, in any M&B game 30 minutes is a laughable amount of time in which you won't do much. Having all these videos with barely 30 minutes, along with the fact that most of them are totally unfamiliar with M&B games leads to a bunch of boring footage to watch, which in the end has no purpose and ends up being a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ teaser.
Just release the demo's to the public, your real supporters, not some scrubs at gamescom which "don't know that your troops can follow you". Make the demo have a timer or a 30 day lockdown just like in Warbad's demo. I am sure noone will get past early game in that time and see the unpolished mid and end game. Maybe even make it up for limited time on steam, ffs, just give us that "something big and special" we were promised already.

Inb4, Callum ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up with his phrasing again

[Sumarlithi]

They said they'd rather finish the game not put all the effort into this. Also people would not just play the game but try to get infinite time and look around all the files "that they don't want to spoil for us" aka not finished.

[HEXEN]

"We DoN't WaNt To spOiL yOu!"
"Be sUrPriSeD!"
"wE wAnT tO pOlIsH tHe gAmE, yEt hAvEn'T eVeN tHe DeAtH MeChAnicS iMpLeMenTeD."
"HmMmMm ... gLuE sTiCkS!"

[X-542]

I asked for a single battle as a demo last year somewhere and the response I got from Callum was that people wouldn't be satisfied with it and will want more afterwards. In other words they can't give us a demo because reasons.

[Sumarlithi]

Originally posted by King Harlaus:

Originally posted by les:

They said they'd rather finish the game not put all the effort into this. Also people would not just play the game but try to get infinite time and look around all the files "that they don't want to spoil for us" aka not finished.

They have a gamescom demo ready they just have to release it.

That was their statement. The functions are disabled not removed so they we can't get them in the source code. If they released that demo we'd likely find a lot more of the game unless they worked on it.

[Bibou]

Originally posted by Irulan Atreides vas Corrino:

"We DoN't WaNt To spOiL yOu!"
"Be sUrPriSeD!"
"wE wAnT tO pOlIsH tHe gAmE, yEt hAvEn'T eVeN tHe DeAtH MeChAnicS iMpLeMenTeD."
"HmMmMm ... gLuE sTiCkS!"

*taleworlds releases the demo after enormous pressure from a part of its most "loyal" and not at all toxic fan*

*few month later*

wHy tHe gAmE iS nOt reLeaSed ?? u GuYs rEleAsed a dEmO !!! iT mEaNs tHe gAMe is rEaDy
sO diSapPoinTeD fOr yOuR fAkE hYpe

[X-542]

Originally posted by Bibou:

Originally posted by Irulan Atreides vas Corrino:

"We DoN't WaNt To spOiL yOu!"
"Be sUrPriSeD!"
"wE wAnT tO pOlIsH tHe gAmE, yEt hAvEn'T eVeN tHe DeAtH MeChAnicS iMpLeMenTeD."
"HmMmMm ... gLuE sTiCkS!"

*taleworlds releases the demo after enormous pressure from a part of its most "loyal" and not at all toxic fan*

*few month later*

wHy tHe gAmE iS nOt reLeaSed ?? u GuYs rEleAsed a dEmO !!! iT mEaNs tHe gAMe is rEaDy
sO diSapPoinTeD fOr yOuR fAkE hYpe

People's disappointment is already as low as it gets, so saying the release of something playable will somehow make it worse is just nonsensical.

Expecting them to release the Gamescom demo is probably not reasonable since it contains just about everything they have so far and people will probably data mine the crap out of it. However I don't see how giving people the opportunity to at least experience the combat through 1 or 2 battles can be a such a bad thing, unless it's so far from being finished that it will create a bad impression, which if we're being honest just shouldn't be possible at this stage.

[HEXEN]

Must be damn good glue sticks.

[Stickman]

This!
You said in the pass you wanted to let people play the game in some way.Now you have a full playable demo...Now you have a chance to do it. Jus do it! You did it in the past with Mount & Blade.
You have the most loyal fan base in all the industry, we deserve it.
But we'll have another dev blog talking about stones or trees.

[Жора]

Don't listen to them! Let them suffer!

2020 release, yay!

[Zwei833 the Buggy Modder]

The demo is already assessable for public, but if you didn't go to Gamescom to play the demo, that is not TW's fault.

[Calbanar]

I'd enjoy a M&B-like demo.

I remember playing dozens of hours with the 3/4 battles available before deciding to buy the game.

[Andbrew]

Originally posted by Calbanar:

I'd enjoy a M&B-like demo.

I remember playing dozens of hours with the 3/4 battles available before deciding to buy the game.

Same here, I remember first trying the demo SP and htne buying the game afterwards.

[Alphonsefox]

"We hope to get the game in the hands of the players in some form by the end of the year"
-2016

[Sumarlithi]

Well at least they "confirmed" a 2019 release.

[Andbrew]

Originally posted by les:

Well at least they "confirmed" a 2019 release.

Suure, even I don't believe that. Also, in what form? FUll game, EA or "beta"? They never spoke about that.