Wolfenstein PC Demo Released
Grab the 685MB demo now. The game also just hit Steam, if you deem it worthy of a buy.
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replySpeaking as a regularly-abused PC gamer, I have one question: how effective is releasing a demo *months* after the retail release?
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How are you abused? Does the game industry owe you something because you're a PC gamer?
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we were told there would be punch and pie.
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...and cake!
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I would if I knew the answer.
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I'm also wondering about that.
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Do you mean why do they do it or what is the sales track record of doing so?
The why is easy: try and entice people to buy the game. That's all demos ever are. There's a ton of reasons why they don't make it before the shipping date - not enough time and resources, a perception that the game will sell fine without it, a hard-and-fast date from a publisher, etc.
If a game is guaranteed to sell it frequently won't get a demo at all. Fallout 3 sold just fine without one, for example.
If a game comes out and doesn't sell well then a demo can get people interested again, or to begin with. I for one actually sort of forgot about this game until this demo just now came out. I'll be checking it out for sure.
If a game comes out and doesn't sell at all then the publisher cuts their losses. Tribes Vengeance sold so poorly that the last patch was actually cancelled by the publisher.
As for how effective they are, I don't know but consider how every time Valve or Epic have a free weekend of L4D or UT3 they see a huge uptick in sales. -
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They didn't want people canceling pre-orders by finding out how generic and bland it is *ahead* of time. Might as well wait a few months to get maximum cash-in from all the suckers who buy before they try.
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