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tell them to bookmark piratebay.

I still remember when they used to release a demo for every game. Then they stopped making demos. Now they're bringing them back but charging?

Comment on kotaku. As long as retarded sheep like that one make up most of buyers they can package shit and sell it and the faggots will say yummy and eat it up.

What the fuck?

What the fuck happened to gaming? In the 90s we had shareware and twenty years later we pay for the same thing?

You can tell the industry is dying when it's milking every last cent it can.

I can see the potential future of EA games: you pay for the demo, then you pay for the game, pay for dlc, pay for other useless shits and one year later the sequel comes out with one new feature so again you pay for the demo and...

EA is fucked. If they want more money, they need to get more customers. Extracting more revenue from the same customers leads only to a temporary ramp-up and an inevitable crash.

Not totally retarded if he means that you get a discount on the full game equal to the cost of the demo. In fact that sounds pretty good imo. Or rather, it would have been good if it had been an indie guy saying it, but not when its frikkin EA, they shouldn't need money just to afford to finish the games.

Wow, I'm starting to realise that the industry stopped making demos so that people have to buy the game only based on hype than any substantial evidence. Releasing only a segment of a game wouldn't be too hard but the publishers don't seem to think that it helps them profit. Indies still release demos because they're not trying to trick the customer.

Well the industry fucked up. B/c as there started to be less and less demos.. The more I torrented.

I'm sure others started torrenting b/c of the same reason.

Heres hoping EA eats shit and burns for this one.

Well I honestly will download a demo before I torrent a game. I did so for Drakensang. And I think that should a game be torrented to try it out, the likelihood of the player actually buying the torrented game is pretty low should they find the game to be fun.

you are probably right.. I haven't bought a game in a long time. Yet I've tried plenty in the last year.

IIRC The last game I bought was last winter. It was BF2 for $7.99. I bought it after watching game play vids of a MOD, Project reality.

Even more retarded-- didn't you have to pre-order Left 4 Dead 2 in order to get the demo? That totally defeats the fucking purpose

Huh, recently I've gotten used to EA laying low and Activision being the new management retards.

There's a surprisingly fierce competition.

Exactly. Not that I'm in favor of this blatant EA money grab but let's face, the majority of people who torrent regularly would do so regardless of demo availability and/or game quality. It's a rationalization people proffer to make themselves feel better I guess. Me? I don't pirate games (though I mostly stick with indie titles/deep sales) but I do pirate a lot of porn. It's theft, but hey, I admit it. I don't mince words and try to pretend I'm making a political/sociological statement on the industry... I just steal my porn.

As to why EA is doing this, as other have mentioned the big developer/publishers who put out this $50-$60 garbage are being undercut by indie guys who make decent games for $10 and just put them out through Steam or some other form of digital distribution.

hey, i buy the games i torrented that i found to be good, since i would want to play them again sometime in the future and dont want to hunt down a torrent again.

Yeah, he means that by paying that you'd get the value as a discount when buying the full version. Which would be nice if not for the fact that if you find out you don't like the game at all (which is why you're playing a demo), you...well, you just paid for a demo.

When did it all start to go wrong?

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It all began a long time ago in a continent not so far away:

No, it's Kotick, the Activision guy, who said at a PUBLIC shareholders' meeting that he wanted to take the fun out of game development to make it run like any other software business....
....and he apparently hadn't considered that doing so might just make it more difficult to pay his employees peanuts (if they aren't going to have any more creativity than working on other software) and convince them to do massive crunch time.


Here's to suspecting that either Activision's salary costs start skyrocketing or they end up with skill shortages.

Yeah, I actually can't see large numbers of people taking this up. The only folk I can imagine buying this in substantial numbers are those who see the cost as negligible and those who have already decided to buy the game but are too impatient to wait for the full release.