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archer9234 on 15 November 2015
d21lewis said:
Cloudman said:
Sounds like a paid demo to me ; )

Paying to try it out sounds like a terrible idea. They should remain as demos that you try out, and you buy it if you like what you played, or don't and just move on to something else.

I see this a lot.  But, with a game like The Evil Within (a game I bought last year digitally because it was on sale) there isn't a demo at all.  Lots of, if not most, games offer no demo whatsoever.  If they gave the free trial like a lot of PS3 games used to or, as somebody else mentioned, EA Access, people might realize they like the game and buy it.....or people might realize that they don't like the game and not buy it.

The thing is, a demo as it existed in the PS1/PS2 days, costs money to make.  What did a company have to gain by releasing one?  Exposure?  So, with the method menitoned in the OP, at least they stand to gain money from people interested in the demo.

It might need some tweeks.  Any suggestions?

How about this. Package the demo of a game with a purchase with another game. Or a GOTY edition. That's what Resident Evil 2 did. When RE1 was reissued with dual shock support. Besides, we have free demos. It's called Twitch. What better way to judge the game. While someone else plays it. And I know I won't have a wall put up. I bought Shovel Knight, because I saw my friends play it.

I didn't want to give it a chance before that. I also bought Revelations 2. I abandoned the RE series, once 5 came out. And thought REV 1 sucked. But I saw a friend play REV 2. And went: "Wow, they almost got the horror level right. It's like they tried. I'll get this game." And no. Episodic content is BS. I wait for all the telltale games to be full releases, before I bother with them.



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JEMC on 15 November 2015

Another option for PC gamers is make use of Steam's refund policy

http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

"Valve will, upon request via help.steampowered.com, issue a refund for any reason, if the request is made within fourteen days of purchase, and the title has been played for less than two hours."

Most of us don't need anything close to two hours to know if we like the game or not.



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Frogger on 15 November 2015

The way it is now is fine.



Conina on 15 November 2015
JEMC said:

Another option for PC gamers is make use of Steam's refund policy

http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

"Valve will, upon request via help.steampowered.com, issue a refund for any reason, if the request is made within fourteen days of purchase, and the title has been played for less than two hours."

Most of us don't need anything close to two hours to know if we like the game or not.

Yeah, or Origin's "great game guarantee": https://www.origin.com/en-de/great-game-guarantee

Or GOG's "money back guarantee": https://www.gog.com/support/website_help/money_back_guarantee



Zackasaurus-rex on 15 November 2015

No thank you.

Retail~ ♡



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JEMC on 15 November 2015
Conina said:
JEMC said:

Another option for PC gamers is make use of Steam's refund policy

http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

"Valve will, upon request via help.steampowered.com, issue a refund for any reason, if the request is made within fourteen days of purchase, and the title has been played for less than two hours."

Most of us don't need anything close to two hours to know if we like the game or not.

Yeah, or Origin's "great game guarantee": https://www.origin.com/en-de/great-game-guarantee

Or GOG's "money back guarantee": https://www.gog.com/support/website_help/money_back_guarantee

Origin's ok, but GOG's refund policy only applies if the game doesn't work.



Please excuse my bad English.

Former gaming PC: i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070

Current gaming PC: R5-7600, 32GB RAM 6000MT/s (CL30) and a RX 9060XT 16GB

Steam / Live / NNID : jonxiquet    Add me if you want, but I'm a single player gamer.

Conina on 15 November 2015
JEMC said:
Conina said:

Yeah, or Origin's "great game guarantee": https://www.origin.com/en-de/great-game-guarantee

Or GOG's "money back guarantee": https://www.gog.com/support/website_help/money_back_guarantee

Origin's ok, but GOG's refund policy only applies if the game doesn't work.

For now... sooner or later they will probably have to come closer to Steam's and Origin's terms.

Competition of different digital shops within a platform works on PC.



LudicrousSpeed on 15 November 2015

This is one thing I miss about last gen badly. Every XBL title last gen had a demo. Now both platforms barely have demos for retail titles, even less for digital titles.



ps3-sales! on 15 November 2015

Yes.

So much yes.



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Barozi on 15 November 2015

EA Access does it best.

Currently playing 10 hour trials for both Star Wars Battlefront and Need For Speed.
I really like Battlefront and will certainly buy it. Need For Speed on the other hand is not worthy of a full price pruchase IMO but enjoyable enough to finish the trial and you can achieve a lot in 10 hours.

On the other hand if all games had such a trial, I probably wouldn't buy anything
2-3 hour trials should be long enough, but I'm not complaining