What to heck is this trend of making demos a premium or a gift under certain groups or contracts. It used to irritate me a little when I went on PSN and saw I needed Plus to get some demo of a game I was somewhat interested in, but the real hammer hit me when I went to purchase Duke Nukem from GameStop and was given first access to the demo for reserving the product that I was buying.
To all game makers and publishers. What to heck are you thinking??! Really, I am a customer interested in your game and I don't know if I want to buy it yet, so you made a demo so I can say "WOW, yes gat me some of that!" but wait you need to subscribe to this or that. So I say "I will wait till I can see it another way." Meanwhile I find something else to add to my 7 - 10 unplayed games in the queue. However, if I have a game I really want I can go buy it and get priority access to the demo. Are you hoping I may hate the demo and cancel the preorder? Because if I wasn't all that interested and wanted to try out the game, I can't. But if I preorder the game I can try it and maybe cancel when I am already on the hook.
Maybe these should no longer be called demos but exclusive previews. And if that is the case, can we get some demos of these games so I can see if I am truly interested in them? Otherwise you, the publisher, are losing my interest and possibly the sale.
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