[johan osterman]

Originally posted by Boron:
but in the dominions 2 demo you already could only chose 7 nations and the lvl 4 research limit was still in it
so i think the 40 turn limit was unneccesary because even without that you only saw about 25% of the game so you still want to buy it but have a bit better overview

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The essential advantage of the turn limit is that it removes functionality, not just limit the features. At first when the dom 2 demo was released a few players complained that there were more than enough features and that some time spent on making these features should have been spent in other ways instead, improving graphics and whatnot. These players might well be satisfied with a demo that is just feature curtailed and that does not have a turn limit, so in order to encourage these players to buy the game the demo was slapped with a turn limit. Shrapnels staff also suggested this, and they have prior experience in this area. 40 turns is plenty time to grasp enough of the game to conclude if you will like it or not. A less restrictive demo might lead to less frustration amongst demo players but I doubt it would impact sales in a positive way.