How long will DEMO TRIAL be valid?

[Chunky Moe]

Is the trail a time limited or expires after 2 or 3 tries or some other garbage like that or does it let you just play the first 3 "areas/levels" as you see fit?

[Realtek_HD]

You can go hiking on trails whenever you want, i don't believe dishonored prevents you from doing so.

[Chunky Moe]

Originally posted by Realtek_HD:

You can go hiking on trails whenever you want, i don't believe dishonored prevents you from doing so.

I'm talking about the upcoming DEMO

[Ez Duzit]

Free trial available on April 6th. The free trial will allow players to dive into the first three missions of the campaign as either Empress Emily Kaldwin or the Royal Protector, Corvo Attano.
Be aware that you will have to download the entire game (33GB), but only the first 3 missions will be unlocked. If you decide to purchase it the remaining levels will be unlocked.

[Chunky Moe]

Right, but my question is this: Will the demo "lock" after a set period?
Example, I download it, play the first mission.
A week later I go to play the second mission, will it have "expired"?
Or say I do all three missions, will it then say Purchase the full game and locku- then or can I replay the first 3 missions as many times as I want?
EA has that problem, they release time locked trials that you have like 24 hours to play them, etc. If you start one of those trials, and 24 hours goes by, you are locked out of the demo forever, and cant replay them.

[MrBananaGrabber]

Are you worried that by the time you finally get the game to run at anything about 3 1/2 fps the demo period will expire?

As far as I can tell it's going to be left available. It's a very strange marketing tactic: releas an exceptionally buggy game, then several months later - when the game still has severe performance problems - release a demo. So that people can discover how bad it is for free, without having to ask for a refund.

[Ez Duzit]

Steam always clearly states if a free trial will only last thru the weekend. There is no such statement regarding the Dishonered 2 free trial, and since only the first 3 missions are unlocked, it is NOT a time locked trial. So no rush, take your time and enjoy the demo.

[Chunky Moe]

Well, I dont know anything about the performance issues.
I'm just glad they are releasing a demo.

I come from an era when all games had demos and I think it's sad that now days you have to buy games on faith or hope that the person reviewing the game hasn't been influenced by gifts/monies/etc to give the game a certain score.

I prefer to judge a game by my own wants rather than depend on others to feel the same way I do.
They (the industry) claim that demos died out because of piracy, but I call horse manure on that. It's not that difficult to lock or even remove portions of a game if you're worried someone is going to "crack" your demo.

There are a ton of games on my wishlist I would buy right now if a demo was available for me to try first as the 2-hour window of the Steam refund just doesn't suit all gametypes and Steam is under no obligation to refund you for every request.

If there are severe performance issues, then I wont purchase it.
But at least now I can see for myself if the problem affects me.

[Chunky Moe]

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

Steam always clearly states if a free trial will only last thru the weekend. There is no such statement regarding the Dishonered 2 free trial, and since only the first 3 missions are unlocked, it is NOT a time locked trial. So no rush, take your time and enjoy the demo.

Ez Duzit, That's great, and I hope you are right.

[LuCZifer]

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

Steam always clearly states if a free trial will only last thru the weekend. There is no such statement regarding the Dishonered 2 free trial, and since only the first 3 missions are unlocked, it is NOT a time locked trial. So no rush, take your time and enjoy the demo.

Really? So that basically means that they are giving you the first three missions for free? Hard to believe..

[Ez Duzit]

Originally posted by LuCZifer:

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

Steam always clearly states if a free trial will only last thru the weekend. There is no such statement regarding the Dishonered 2 free trial, and since only the first 3 missions are unlocked, it is NOT a time locked trial. So no rush, take your time and enjoy the demo.

Really? So that basically means that they are giving you the first three missions for free? Hard to believe..

Not that hard to believe. Game has gotten a lot of bad press for bugs and serious performance issues right out of the gate. Problems are definitely better (after the 3rd patch), but there's still issues. A lot of people want the game but are leery of the problems. So this (try it for free), combined with the current 50% sale should get the $$ flowing again. Cautious gamers will try it and if they don't have too many issues, they'll grab it while it's on sale. Actually very clever marketing which could drive a large amount of sales in a short amount of time.

[LuCZifer]

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

Originally posted by LuCZifer:

Really? So that basically means that they are giving you the first three missions for free? Hard to believe..

Not that hard to believe. Game has gotten a lot of bad press for bugs and serious performance issues right out of the gate. Problems are definitely better (after the 3rd patch), but there's still issues. A lot of people want the game but are leery of the problems. So this (try it for free), combined with the current 50% sale should get the $$ flowing again. Cautious gamers will try it and if they don't have too many issues, they'll grab it while it's on sale. Actually very clever marketing which could drive a large amount of sales in a short amount of time.

Well that doesn't change the fact that five months after release the are basically giving away a third of an AAA title which was received pretty well by the press and is arguably an outstanding game. Now that's unprecedented at least to my knowledge. Wonder whether the initiative came from the publisher or the developers themselves. Those Arkane guys seem like some really nice people. That's not an excuse for screwing up the technical side of a game, but at least they try hard to do something about it.

[76561198141714300]

Originally posted by 𝕎ooʟʏ𝔹ᴜɢ:

Originally posted by Realtek_HD:

You can go hiking on trails whenever you want, i don't believe dishonored prevents you from doing so.

I'm talking about the upcoming DEMO

he is obviously making fun of you because of your OP, wake up

[76561198141714300]

Originally posted by LuCZifer:

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

Steam always clearly states if a free trial will only last thru the weekend. There is no such statement regarding the Dishonered 2 free trial, and since only the first 3 missions are unlocked, it is NOT a time locked trial. So no rush, take your time and enjoy the demo.

Really? So that basically means that they are giving you the first three missions for free? Hard to believe..

you are new to gaming ? Plenty of games gave free content in the past.