Demo ?

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Richard:
[QB]That's because those companies have to release demos early because of the retail angle. And not all companies do that. In fact some do the opposite and force you to buy it first before putting out a demo several months lately.

Our philosiphy is we want the demo to be code-wise just like the final game so you get a 100% guarantee that the game will play like the demo does. Major publishers can't always publish it.

Also we have a much longer shelf life cycle. Major publishers have to sell their games in the first few months or they loose their shirt. In our case our sales don't even start to peak until at least 6 months in a release. Sometimes longer.

Since you put it like that, it does make sense. It did seem that SEIV Gold became more and more popular as time went by, just from what I was able to tell from the forum Boards. Let's hope that PC Gamer or some other company does an early review so more people will find out about it as soon as possible.

[General Woundwort]

demo,
demo,
Demo,
DEMO!,
DEMO!...

(feel free to join in the chant until MM relents and releases the demo...)

[Iansidious]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
demo,
demo,
Demo,
DEMO!,
DEMO!...

(feel free to join in the chant until MM relents and releases the demo...)

good idea!
demo,
demo,
Dmeo!,
DEMO!,
DEMO!...

[Captain Kwok]

The demo has just been recieved by us testers, so it shouldn't be much longer for you guys. Aaron just wants to make sure any little bugs and errors are squished! After all, he did make a new mini-campaign for the demo!

[Iansidious]

This was a song I sang with the late Johnny Cash some time ago...
*guitar srings*

"I hurt myself today to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain that the demo not quite here
The Abbidon tears a hole in a old familiar ship
try to kill them away what have I become?
my sweetest friend Aaron I know goes away in the end
give me a demo before my empire turns to dirt
Don't let me down
Don't make me hurt
I wear this crown of pain on my captain's chair
Full of broken hearts I cannot repair
beneath the stain of armor the love dissappears
I am still right here where is my demo?
Don't let me down
Don't make me hurt"

Thank you Johnny Cash 1932-2003

[ September 15, 2003, 04:33: Message edited by: Iansidious ]

[Ed Kolis]

Oh no, Space Empires song parodies... Last time people got so bored waiting for a game they did that sort of thing it was with MOO3 and look what happened

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
. NOw, that may be the policy at Malfador, but I can't see releasing a demo after the game comes out as sensible in a business sort of way. You want to entice people to buy the game by teasing them with the demo. That's why I bought SE4 Gold, but that was only after I found out about the game by reading a review in a magazine.

IIRC the Se4 Gold demo came out a week or two after the game itself became available for purchase. Of course the Original Se4 demo was still around, so you could have already had an idea of how the game would play.