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Posted April 08, 2010
Is there a freely available Dragon Age Origins playable demo out there for the taking? Before anyone answers just "yes", the question is, where?
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Posted April 09, 2010
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domgrief: Still undecided on Awakening, though - it's almost the same price as other AAA games on my to-do list.

At the moment Awakenings is not worth the $39.99 no way no how. However I have found it for as low as $17.99. Basically if you see it at a decent expansion pack price then buy it.
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Lou: They should have released a demo for each openning and allowed the player the option of importing their character into the full game. They could have offered it from their site as a 99 cent download with a 10% discount on the purchase of the full game.

Thats FIVE individual demos! It's a bit much to ask really. If there was going to be a demo it should have been in the tower of Ishal and ignoring all the cinematics.
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Posted April 09, 2010
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domgrief: Unfortunately I guess they can get away without a demo - the game should sell itself among the hardcore audience by word of mouth, and the non-hardcore might be swayed by the TV ads.
I loved DA:O - I finished it twice using different characters, back-to-back, and had a blast both times. That's the first time I've ever done that with an RPG.
Still undecided on Awakening, though - it's almost the same price as other AAA games on my to-do list.
I shudder at the thought of how many alphanumeric codes I'd be required to enter on Bioware's website if I bought a GoTY edition :P

Awakening is very enjoyable, but that price tag is steep. Couple that with the issues patch 1.03 introduced in the game (which Awakening requires), and I'd wait until:
a) It's cheaper, and
b) there's another patch available.
Posted April 09, 2010
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Lou: They should have released a demo for each openning and allowed the player the option of importing their character into the full game. They could have offered it from their site as a 99 cent download with a 10% discount on the purchase of the full game.
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Delixe: Thats FIVE individual demos! It's a bit much to ask really. If there was going to be a demo it should have been in the tower of Ishal and ignoring all the cinematics.

Actually, I think it was a marketing straegy they totally missed. A quick Google Search reveals there has been at least 3.2 Million copies of DAO Sold. Lets be conservative and use that number although I feel it could be doubled on a demo. They could have stripped out what essentially are five demos at the beginning of the game and sold them a month prior to release at 99 cents. Thats 3.2 Million Dollars of revenue (conservatively) before they even released the game. Offering a 10% discount to all demo downloaders would certainly make the 99 cents palatable. Opportunity missed in my opinion.
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Posted April 09, 2010
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Lou: Actually, I think it was a marketing straegy they totally missed. A quick Google Search reveals there has been at least 3.2 Million copies of DAO Sold. Lets be conservative and use that number although I feel it could be doubled on a demo. They could have stripped out what essentially are five demos at the beginning of the game and sold them a month prior to release at 99 cents. Thats 3.2 Million Dollars of revenue (conservatively) before they even released the game. Offering a 10% discount to all demo downloaders would certainly make the 99 cents palatable. Opportunity missed in my opinion.

Isn't that the idea EA were floating and they were accused of raping gamers for charging for demos?
Posted April 09, 2010
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Lou: Offering a 10% discount to all demo downloaders would certainly make the 99 cents palatable. Opportunity missed in my opinion.
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Delixe: Isn't that the idea EA were floating and they were accused of raping gamers for charging for demos?

I think the brouhaha was because of EA's plans to offer demos or prequels at premium DLC prices, without offering any incentives toward the purchase of the full product (bluesnews). Not to mention trying to convince purchasers of the full product that they should also buy the demo/prequel.
I'd rather see a free demo cut from the full game, like the Tower of Ishal you mentioned before. If I'd been sitting on the fence about purchasing the game, a free demo would have been enough to sway me.
(I miss demos. I'd probably have bought a lot more games lately if I had the chance to try them out first. Battlefield and COD, I'm looking at you!)
Posted April 09, 2010
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Lou: Actually, I think it was a marketing straegy they totally missed. A quick Google Search reveals there has been at least 3.2 Million copies of DAO Sold. Lets be conservative and use that number although I feel it could be doubled on a demo. They could have stripped out what essentially are five demos at the beginning of the game and sold them a month prior to release at 99 cents. Thats 3.2 Million Dollars of revenue (conservatively) before they even released the game. Offering a 10% discount to all demo downloaders would certainly make the 99 cents palatable. Opportunity missed in my opinion.
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Delixe: Isn't that the idea EA were floating and they were accused of raping gamers for charging for demos?

No - A demo at 99 cents with a discount to buy the full product is nothing like charging for a DLC type Prequel.
Posted April 09, 2010
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Lou: No - A demo at 99 cents with a discount to buy the full product is nothing like charging for a DLC type Prequel.

Charging for pre-game demo's that integrated into the game was exactly what EA were talking about.
Posted April 09, 2010
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Lou: No - A demo at 99 cents with a discount to buy the full product is nothing like charging for a DLC type Prequel.
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Delixe: Charging for pre-game demo's that integrated into the game was exactly what EA were talking about.

They were not talking about 99 Cents with a more than offset discount to buy. They were talking about $10 to $20 for basically a stand alone don't care if you buy the game product. Two very different things.
Posted April 09, 2010
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MysterD: If DAO was to have a Demo, then Bioware might have to force a player to be a certain type of character in the demo - since the game does have different openings...
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Lou: They should have released a demo for each openning and allowed the player the option of importing their character into the full game. They could have offered it from their site as a 99 cent download with a 10% discount on the purchase of the full game.

A demo for each opening?
Are you crazy?
They'd be giving a lot of hours of the game away, by doing such a thing...
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