Xcom 2 Demo

[WateryDoor]

When do you guys think it will be released I thought it would come out today because with EU the demo came out 2 weeks before release and today is 2 weeks before febuary 5th(atleast in my timezone).

[Mook]

Are demos a thing anymore lol

[WateryDoor]

Originally posted by ØпiҠanji:

Are demos a thing anymore lol

Yes alot of games release demos before it comes out to generate hype.

[Deadpooleon]

Originally posted by WateryDoor:

Originally posted by ØпiҠanji:

Are demos a thing anymore lol

Yes alot of games release demos before it comes out to generate hype.

For me it would help manage the hype...

[Mook]

Originally posted by WateryDoor:

Originally posted by ØпiҠanji:

Are demos a thing anymore lol

Yes alot of games release demos before it comes out to generate hype.

They release private demos. What last big game released a public demo? Not an argument, an actual question.

[Vandal Savant]

It was sensible for XCOM EU to do it, since it was a franchise reboot. I don't think one should hold their breath over XCOM 2 following suit.

[Mook]

Originally posted by Vandal Savant:

It was sensible for XCOM EU to do it, since it was a franchise reboot. I don't think one should hold their breath over XCOM 2 following suit.

I've watched enough casual dev gameplay to get the hype I need. I love when they are legit playthroughs and not like E3 demos

[WateryDoor]

Originally posted by ØпiҠanji:

Originally posted by WateryDoor:

Yes alot of games release demos before it comes out to generate hype.

They release private demos. What last big game released a public demo? Not an argument, an actual question.

Xcom Eu had one and that came out in like 2012.
I am pretty sure Star Wars Battlefront had one.
Those are some examples I could think of.

[K. the Land-Surveyor]

I'm fairly certain that there's never been any sort of official announcement that a demo was coming. The most I've seen is, when people ask if there is going to be a demo, people saying that EU's demo dropped 2 weeks before release. But no official channel has said that there was going to be an XCOM2 demo AFAIK.

[Mook]

Originally posted by WateryDoor:

Originally posted by ØпiҠanji:

They release private demos. What last big game released a public demo? Not an argument, an actual question.

Xcom Eu had one and that came out in like 2012.
I am pretty sure Star Wars Battlefront had one.
Those are some examples I could think of.

Xcom:EU was a reboot but most of all that was 4 years ago. Battlefront had a Alpha and a Beta, that is different than a demo. I would see no harm in making a demo, but that is not a trend anymore for games. If anything you have a multiplayer game that has beta testing. But like I said before, they released demos to youtubers because that is the new thing.

[HoroSaga]

XCOM:EU's demo was nice, but it did come with a host of problems. Most notably, folks datamined it pretty mercilessly. With XCOM 2, they've already bled out a lot more information than they probably should have, so maybe they decided not to risk also releasing an early public demo.

But we might still see something over the next two weeks. We'll just have to wait and see.

[Eriktion]

one month after release of the main game should be fine for those that cant decide

[nambulous]

Just watch videos on youtube like https://www.youtube.com/user/ChristopherOdd/videos or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi6up_i5fIk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqLNE8VXDGU [...] for starters. I watched them all and feel now like I've already played it. It's exactly the game I want to play.
The only thing a demo would still add to it, is to see if the game works well on your own PC.

[Peardude]

While I would LOVE to get a demo version, nobody seem to have mentioned it at all, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

[HoroSaga]

There were some rumors very early on, after some folks spotted an entry in the Steam release list for a "Free XCOM 2 Demo". However, I believe that this entry was actually for the press-demo that was distributed to for advertising purposes.

Sadly, yeah. There's no compelling evidence pointing toward a public demo. At this point it'll either happen or it won't, but either way the game will still be going live in another fourteen days.

[Llamedos]

releasing the caracter creator wiuld be nice i think. just something to do whilst waiting, and minimizing time wasted at release.