Timed Demos

[Herr der Verboten]

Basically a timed demo is a demo that can only be played during a certain window of opportunity like steam's something-x festival. Another version is that you can only play the demo for a set amount of time and it literally removes itself.

I'm not a fan of this. In fact, I find this silly up to retarded to say the least. Why as a developer would you use your demos as a hype building tool, it is not building hype it is building anti-hype and of course you are encouraging finding it at other places. Like with Graven I got the demo from the pirate buy; kudus to the devs and these practices.

So I'm either full of **** or just too old school for this NuDemo kak.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Pretty much the best way possible for me to not ever buy your game.

In fact I feel all digital stores should make a demo mandatory for all games before they are allowed to be listed.

That why the old Xbox Live arcade was so cool because every game was a trial that then unlocked into the full game.

I bought so many more games purely because of that model.

 

[ponder]

Well you can buy it on steam and refund within 14days or 2hours of playtime. Alternatively, there's Fitgirl...

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Well you can buy it on steam and refund within 14days or 2hours of playtime. Alternatively, there's Fitgirl...

Until steam says **** you. The refund system as per their TOS is not a demo system and should not be used as such as they can flag you.