It begins: next Madden demo scrapped, only playable early with EA access

[Madword]

Azerth said:

Madword said:
Paying for demos, the slippery slope in my opinion. Demos' are meant to entice the user base to buy the game, locking them behind a paywall... shocking.

This is what was one of the things that the original XBO vision was supposed to be, everything behind a paywall... personally I don't play Madden so it's not a problem, but as a gamer, I don't like it one bit.

But demos don't  they actually hurt sales

Well only if they are bad demos ;)

If that was a universal truth (i.e all game demos hurt sales)... *NO ONE* would ever make a demo as it's not worth it.