We need to bring back the era of demos

[Chazore]

man I miss demos, I miss them a lot for both nostalgic reasons and possible purchase ones.

I remember coming home from school once every 2 or more weeks I;d go to my local newsagents and buy myself a PS magazine that would come with the PS Essentials demo disk, I'd spend so much time with the magazine and then egtting to try the demo's with their different UI's each disk with different games to try out and then buy, it was a really good time back then for me, heck if it wasn't for my next door neibour getting me into PS magazine and giving me a few of their demos I probably wouldn't have gotten into Resident Evil/MGS or at least to a later date.

Today I'll be lucky if I can even find a legal demo of a game, especially on Steam, the more modern way I hear of people (even next door neighbour's kid who's 16) trying out new games as demos is to "download" a copy even though we know where that option stems from.

I can't blame them though, today we hardly ever get demos of all the games that are coming out, if anything we pay to get into Alpas and betas now, sometimes they don't even reach completion and sometimes they even spoil the fun and magic of the game, I know I've put money towards some early access games and had some fun but with some of them still nowhere near completion I feel burned out on them, they aren't much of a demo, more of a near complete game but sometimes they feel like demos to me with the difference being I pay a higher price for one.

I miss these neat disks though.



Think I'll watch some demo vids from the past for old times sake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2491ZPOPXtQ