Demo ?

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by gregebowman:
. NOw, that may be the policy at Malfador, but I can't see releasing a demo after the game comes out as sensible in a business sort of way. You want to entice people to buy the game by teasing them with the demo. That's why I bought SE4 Gold, but that was only after I found out about the game by reading a review in a magazine.

IIRC the Se4 Gold demo came out a week or two after the game itself became available for purchase. Of course the Original Se4 demo was still around, so you could have already had an idea of how the game would play.

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That may be true, but I had never heard of Space Empires in any Version until I read the review of SE4 Gold in PC Gamer. Then I had to check it out, since I do like the 4X type of games. I wonder how many more games are like this; if it doesn't get mentioned in a magazine, then no one knows it exists. Maybe Malfador should budget some of their money towards advertising in the games magazines.

[Richard]

Originally posted by gregebowman:

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by gregebowman:
. NOw, that may be the policy at Malfador, but I can't see releasing a demo after the game comes out as sensible in a business sort of way. You want to entice people to buy the game by teasing them with the demo. That's why I bought SE4 Gold, but that was only after I found out about the game by reading a review in a magazine.

IIRC the Se4 Gold demo came out a week or two after the game itself became available for purchase. Of course the Original Se4 demo was still around, so you could have already had an idea of how the game would play.

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That may be true, but I had never heard of Space Empires in any Version until I read the review of SE4 Gold in PC Gamer. Then I had to check it out, since I do like the 4X type of games. I wonder how many more games are like this; if it doesn't get mentioned in a magazine, then no one knows it exists. Maybe Malfador should budget some of their money towards advertising in the games magazines.

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That's whata review is. A one page color advertisment in a magazine. And a ad that has official endorsement by a paid reviewer .

We did magazine advertising and it is an utter waste of money. One of the reason the PC game market is dying is because publishers spend WAY too much money on advertising that doesn't work.

And don't get me started about demo CD's. They work less than magazine advertising does.

[Jake Monroe]

I learned about Space Empires from a disc I bought with supposedly 300 Shareware games on it. Space Empires 2 was one of the games on the disc, but when I first played it, I never bothered to search for it only. It wasn't untill later that I did and found Space Empires IV and then bought it.

[Instar]

Just a quick FYI (if I am allowed to say it):
The demo is expected to be about ~60 megs, so you dial up folks might want to get ready for one of those all day download things (I had to do it before). Or if you have a lot of downloads to do all at once, just get a disc burned with everything (some sites do it for you, for a fee).
Us broadband types will yawn in the ~40 secs it will take... Mwhahahahaha

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Richard:
That's whata review is. A one page color advertisment in a magazine. And a ad that has official endorsement by a paid reviewer .

We did magazine advertising and it is an utter waste of money. One of the reason the PC game market is dying is because publishers spend WAY too much money on advertising that doesn't work.

And don't get me started about demo CD's. They work less than magazine advertising does.

Oh really. I first found SE3 on a demo CD.

[Richard]

Just ask Aaron about his experience with DO and PC Gamer.

Seriously demo CD's are an utter waste of money in a magazine. Especially when they cost, at a minimum, 5000 dollars to put on a cover CD.

[Wydraz]

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