Publishers forced to pay fee for PSN bandwidth

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KylieDog said:

twesterm said:

 

What are you talking about?  Patches are small and not the huge worry (but still a concern), the thing that sucks is having to pay to place a demo.

Do you:

1. Put a demo on the PSN, pay the money, and potentially turn people off to your game since demos have a good way of chasing away people but at least you're making the people who are already buying the game happy.
2. Not put a demo on the PSN but get backlash from people for not having a demo and get bad press.

 

 

I think you misunderstand the intentions of demos.

 

They are actually intended to encourage people to buy the game, not turn them off.

I think what twesterm means is that a demo is rarely a final build and if the demo is bad, those who downloaded them won't buy the game, despite how good the final product is.