I Was Ripped OFF!

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
As for the Dom 2 demo's L4 magic limit's effects, when you bear in mind that the demo only has two small maps and a 40 turn limit

I'm not arguing about the 40 turn limit, but you'll run smack into an L4 limit in all of 7 turns. When it takes you that long to hit a wall, it's not a very convincing example of the game. This is like trying to start your demo car, only to notice that, well, there aren't any wheels.

Sort of like the food samples you get in supermarkets. A nibble so that you can decide if you like the item, but only enough to whet your appetite/desire.

Food samples happen to be a sample of the actual product. A sample of a pizza, for instance, consists of an actual chunk of the pizza. It doesn't consist of being permitted to nibble only upon a meatball.

I have bought many games (including Dom 2) after playing their demos, that I would not have bought without having tried the demo. And many games have I bought without a demo much to my regret. Demos are a GOOD thing.

And how many times have you decided to buy a game, only to realize that everything was more or less already in the demo, and the actual product had no meat to it? Demos are not necessarily a good thing: The time the developers spent on crippling the demo could have been spent more productively.