Ail said:
ssj12 said:
Ail said:
ssj12 said:
Ail said:
There's a demo of KZ3 MP and SP on the PSN...
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*Sigh...* KZ3 and Crysis 2 are obviously internal security failures. No one hacked Sony or Crytek to get the games. They were directly leaked internally.
The need for demos are more of a pre-launch need for most titles as most titles do not have demos on at all or on all platforms. Also releasing demos at the same time helps. If Crytek released the "beta" at the same time on PC as the 360 there would honestly be less piracy for the title.
How many games that should have demos before launch not have one? Tons. What's stupider is releasing a demo after launch. You will not generate sales by releasing post-launch demos. All assumptions on a game are made off reviews, or pirated copies, if this occurs. You lose sales this way and encourage piracy.
Truly, the industry is sinking their own ship. Back in the PS1 and PS2 days almost every game had a demo. Why did this change? Because of piss poor budgeting, and failure to think about actually putting a demo in the development schedule. Actual budgeting titles and planning demos can't exactly be hard since it worked just two generations ago, so wtf happened? Everyone become to lazy?
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Sure they were internal leak.
But you honestly think that the dude downloading them from a torrent has a clue where it came from ?
My point was that game has a demo and will get downloaded/pirated as much as games without one...
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The demos were only released freely today, the demos were originally PS Plus only.
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And the game doesn't release before the 22nd..
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And? Sony gave people a choice. Pay for a demo, or play the full game for free. Logic says free will win no matter how wrong the decision is to play the free full version. Release date doesn't matter, its the fact that they charged for something thats supposed to be free before releasing the free version. If they would have just released the demos freely, you would see many people not downloading the full game to try the game.
With the addition of demos in PS Plus, Sony is asking for their leaked titles to be downloaded instead of people paying for PS Plus to play a demo. It is a bad business decision. Leave PS Plus to giving away discounts, some rentals of games, Qore, etc.
