No way it's just me, right? Like, it was so weird for me to load up my brand new switch and not find a demo for some of the systems biggest titles. I felt that when we entered the 360/PS3 generation, demos were gonna be so much more prevalent now that there was an online market for users to access easily on there fancy new machines, and for awhile, I felt like things were looking good on the demo front. At the time(of owning a PS3), I felt like there was a pretty wide selection of demos to choose from, and just believed that at a certain point, most games(if not every) on these platforms would have a demo to try out. Unfortunately for us however, this never happened. Off the top of my head, there aren't playable demos for games like:
- Bloodborne
- Uncharted 4
- God of War
- Dragon Quest XI
- Breath of the Wild
- Mario Odyssey
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Spiderman
AND THAT BLOWS MY MIND. Now I know what some of you are thinking; "hey man, some of those games had timed demos and betas that you had access to, so if you really wanted to try it out, you had your chance", and to that I say: FUCKING WHY? Why did I lose an opportunity to test a snippet of a game out just because I wasn't playing it during the designated time they had their demo open for? Take Bloodbornes network test for instance; that shit was open for like 2-3 hours, very late at night, for three days, and you needed to have an invite to said network test to even play. Yeah, it was a network test, but why didn't they just release that demo permanently like 1 or 2 months before the game released? Give those who missed their chance another shot? Those E3 demos that some of these games had showing on stage floors at a convention, why weren't those ironed out and thrown onto the PSN /Xbox Live/Eshop? I find myself making excuses for some of these developers, thinking "oh, it's taxing and a waste of resources for some of these companies to bother with a demo, they're probably crunching or some shit", but then:
A) I'm making excuses for SOME major publishers who definitely have the resources to allocate some of their time and effort into pumping out a demo of their upcoming blockbuster.
B) This would essentially be advertisement for their upcoming title, which I would assume is a good thing in most cases(yeah it might harm those "Andromeda" exceptions since it'll do nothing but show just how rushed the game was).
It's just so weird to me, and a huge shame that I can't try out some very well received games(likes Spiderman, or Mario Odyssey, or Dragon Quest XI) just because there isn't a demo available to me on their respective networks. Maybe it's been talked about before here or back on GAF, and a solid answer was given at that point in time, but i'm honestly surprised by the lack of demos in this day and age, and hopefully someone here can give me a good answer/explanation for this.
- Bloodborne
- Uncharted 4
- God of War
- Dragon Quest XI
- Breath of the Wild
- Mario Odyssey
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Spiderman
AND THAT BLOWS MY MIND. Now I know what some of you are thinking; "hey man, some of those games had timed demos and betas that you had access to, so if you really wanted to try it out, you had your chance", and to that I say: FUCKING WHY? Why did I lose an opportunity to test a snippet of a game out just because I wasn't playing it during the designated time they had their demo open for? Take Bloodbornes network test for instance; that shit was open for like 2-3 hours, very late at night, for three days, and you needed to have an invite to said network test to even play. Yeah, it was a network test, but why didn't they just release that demo permanently like 1 or 2 months before the game released? Give those who missed their chance another shot? Those E3 demos that some of these games had showing on stage floors at a convention, why weren't those ironed out and thrown onto the PSN /Xbox Live/Eshop? I find myself making excuses for some of these developers, thinking "oh, it's taxing and a waste of resources for some of these companies to bother with a demo, they're probably crunching or some shit", but then:
A) I'm making excuses for SOME major publishers who definitely have the resources to allocate some of their time and effort into pumping out a demo of their upcoming blockbuster.
B) This would essentially be advertisement for their upcoming title, which I would assume is a good thing in most cases(yeah it might harm those "Andromeda" exceptions since it'll do nothing but show just how rushed the game was).
It's just so weird to me, and a huge shame that I can't try out some very well received games(likes Spiderman, or Mario Odyssey, or Dragon Quest XI) just because there isn't a demo available to me on their respective networks. Maybe it's been talked about before here or back on GAF, and a solid answer was given at that point in time, but i'm honestly surprised by the lack of demos in this day and age, and hopefully someone here can give me a good answer/explanation for this.
