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RE: EA plans to charge for game demos
Senseito7 Wrote:Well the biggest plus is that a new game is just that, a new game.. so you're paying for the premium to play the complete game earlier rather than later.

And in that respect - paying for Demos will work with the portion of the market desperate to play everything first.. but a lot of people would rather save their money for Downloadable Content for games they already own.. as well as PSOne Classics.
Depends on your interpretation of the market.  I've seen people go to great lengths to try to always be the first to get something or do something.
Usually these people will be fanatics of the game, and are usually good guinea pig subjects (actually, anyone who buys stuff early is usually a good guinea pig), so will usually give good feedback too, as well as spread their love for the game.
Besides, it's well known in the tech industry that anything new has absurd premiums attached.  In this case, you're just paying less for a lesser product.

No, I wouldn't buy the latest stuff, neither would I be the first to try out a new version of Windows/Linux/whatever.  I wouldn't be the first to buy the latest CPU or whatever.  I like to sit back and wait for all the guinea pigs to do most of the hard work.
If everyone thought logically, no-one would really want to be among the first to try out something.  The fact that so many people want the latest stuff though, indicates majority thought isn't completely "rational".
23/03/2010 03:51 AM
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