Demos on Videogames.

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Games demos should be a MUST! that every videogame company has to offer a demo of the game to test it. why are we not fighting for this?

[Brian9824]

Because its up to the developer and demo's were more of a marketing tool. With the resources available today its already easy to see what a game is like before you buy it, so demo's aren't as useful as they once were.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Tava:

why are we not fighting for this?

Because it's fighting wind mills. Unless you want to go the legislation route, but I think that it's highly questionable that'll achieve anything.

On something expensive, like a car, a test drive makes sense. But for small time products it doesn't make sense that creators have to privde samples or something.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Tava:

Games demos should be a MUST! that every videogame company has to offer a demo of the game to test it. why are we not fighting for this?

Should contact every government, and convince them to make new laws to punish every developer for not immediately make a demo of their products, and give free stuff to people.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Tava:

Games demos should be a MUST! that every videogame company has to offer a demo of the game to test it. why are we not fighting for this?

Well, why aren't you fighting? As a customer, you got strong leverage, called "vote with your wallet". Feel free to boycott any game sans demo.

I personally don't really care. There's reviews galore, it's hard to NOT be able to make up an informed opinion on a game before buying.

[Ben Lubar]

Imagine if you went to a grocery store and demanded free samples of every product. But the grocery store is only offering free samples of a specific set of products they feel will improve the sales of those products.

Now imagine that instead of the grocery store preparing a display where you can sample a product, somehow the manufacturer of that product had to prepare the display. And you wanted the grocery store to force every manufacturer of every product to prepare such a display under some kind of penalty.

For a lot of products, that doesn't even make sense. What does a "sample" of a mop look like?

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Tava:

Games demos should be a MUST! that every videogame company has to offer a demo of the game to test it. why are we not fighting for this?

Youi can fight all you want but the people spending the money are the one who get the say .

[Tito Shivan]

If you force people to do something they're probably going to put the least effort into it.

The way Steam has been trying for devs to push demos lately (The Next Fest events) seems to be working quite well instead.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

If you force people to do something they're probably going to put the least effort into it.

Or find a way to skew things to their advantages. It's not hard to make a rather legally acceptable misleading demo.

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

The way Steam has been trying for devs to push demos lately (The Next Fest events) seems to be working quite well instead.

We have seen a rise in such things oparticularly from smaller devs. but then you have people complaining about Prologues.