It’s interesting how demos have been making a comeback recently, not for massive ea titles, but on switch they are everywhere. Demos were a way for a company to show off what makes their game special, and garner sales based off that.
Arch is probably right that refund policies are probably part of that.
But I also think that Demos might be additionally useful nowadays for exploiting "viral" marketing and driving up decentralized hype.
We'll still get the problems of demos not being what's in the game, but a well crafted presentation to a potential consumer is clearly useful in the age of high-speed sharing of information.
It’s interesting how demos have been making a comeback recently, not for massive ea titles, but on switch they are everywhere. Demos were a way for a company to show off what makes their game special, and garner sales based off that.
Arch is probably right that refund policies are probably part of that.
But I also think that Demos might be additionally useful nowadays for exploiting "viral" marketing and driving up decentralized hype.
We'll still get the problems of demos not being what's in the game, but a well crafted presentation to a potential consumer is clearly useful in the age of high-speed sharing of information.