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Why is the demo coming out a month after the release?

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07-08-2009, 11:35 AM	#1 (permalink)
new_to_baseball Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 21 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Why is the demo coming out a month after the release? That's like releasing the trailer of a movie after the full movie has been released. It makes no sense.

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That's like releasing the trailer of a movie after the full movie has been released. It makes no sense.

Wrong analogy.

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07-08-2009, 12:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
neojonas All Star Starter Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,076 Thanks: 89 Thanked 84x in 34 posts	I think it's a German thing.

07-08-2009, 01:47 PM	#4 (permalink)
sfeldkamp Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 184 Thanks: 33 Thanked 5x in 5 posts	Good idea. Next year when the game is finished in early June they should release a demo and then wait a month before they release the game. No one here would be upset about that.

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BusterKing All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,101 Thanks: 193 Thanked 300x in 156 posts	Don't need no stinking demo! Buy it, it's well worth it!

07-08-2009, 03:47 PM	#6 (permalink)
satchel Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ft Smith AR Posts: 2,680 Thanks: 52 Thanked 48x in 26 posts	A company's purpose for releasing a game's demo, and the role which the release of a demo plays in the development process of a particular game, are both highly variable. As Carlton_Willey said, your analogy fails. __________________ JL Commish NPBL Rhode Island Reds ’33 ’34 ’35 TCBA San Francisco Railbornes ’74 ’76 ’77 ’78 FL New Orleans Black Sox ’56 ’57 ’58 ’59 IOLD

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A company's purpose for releasing a game's demo, and the role which the release of a demo plays in the development process of a particular game, are both highly variable.

As Carlton_Willey said, your analogy fails.

Company's purpose? What are you talking about? Isn't it about attracting new, potential customers too? And besides, isn't a demo supposed to be a preview of the full product? I'm no hardcore gamer though, so I don't know the policy in that business.

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07-09-2009, 10:46 AM	#8 (permalink)
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Why is the demo coming out a month after the release?

Tradition.

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07-09-2009, 12:53 PM	#10 (permalink)
puremvp Bat Boy Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 15 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	I wonder when it's coming, I was told early last month, it would be out the first of this month.....

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I wonder when it's coming, I was told early last month, it would be out the first of this month.....

Who told you that?

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07-09-2009, 02:32 PM	#12 (permalink)
puremvp Bat Boy Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 15 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Well, it's funny now. I was searching for it, but now it's gone.....but my other thread about the demo is still around, that's kinda weird. I cant remember the name but he did have ootp dev under his name, probably was an honest mistake, keep in mind this was when the game first came out, first day...I asked and was told exactly one month from that date, which was the 1st. no big deal though

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Company's purpose? What are you talking about?

Frequently, companies make available demo versions of games whose full versions are not yet ready for release. I assume that this is what you were referring to, with your movie trailer analogy. At other times, companies release demos after games have already been available, as a light version of the whole game. The "purpose" for releasing the demo is the same in both cases, but there are two separate circumstances and approaches, which result in differing demo release dates. Pardon me for not being clear.

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Well, it's funny now.

I was searching for it, but now it's gone.....but my other thread about the demo is still around, that's kinda weird.

I cant remember the name but he did have ootp dev under his name, probably was an honest mistake, keep in mind this was when the game first came out, first day...I asked and was told exactly one month from that date, which was the 1st.

no big deal though

The game wasn't released on the 1st of June.

The only thing said about the Demo was approximately one month after release, approximately being the key word.

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Tradition.

And there it is. Only took us eight replies to get to it.

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07-09-2009, 10:12 PM	#16 (permalink)
ballcoach Bat Boy Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Valdosta GA Posts: 16 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Because Marcus says so...but I like how Malleus Dei puts it as well.

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