Sony considering PlayStation Early Access program

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KLXVER said:

mornelithe said:

Don't buy games without demo's, when numerous titles flop day 1 and the feedback they get is lack of demo.  They'll rethink their strategy.  But, getting a gamer to resist that next fix is akin to asking a heroin junky to resist the temptation of their next fix.

So if I stop buying games without a demo, then publishers will take notice?

Well, here you find the crux of the issue we're in.  Because people didn't recognize how the removal of demo's could impact the industry, and thus made it profitable for companies to just not release demo's.  It will now take a concerted effort from gamer's to reverse that course.  And, to the delight of publishers/devs/manufacturers, gamer's have yet to be able to really speak with one voice and tell the industry Aww hell naw, because they're too busy defending their hardware of choice, or their IP of choice.  Notice how fast Microsoft reversed course on the DRM thing, that was because the industry responded with a resounding no.  Those kinds of critique's of policy need to be made more often, if we hope to have any control over the industry.