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[KingofstarrySkies]

If you hate games because they don't meet expectations, then you need to lower your expectations. People need to earn a paycheck too

[Sergius]

If you hate games because they don't meet expectations, then you need to lower your expectations. People need to earn a paycheck too

Alternatively, people can earn paychecks from those whose expectations they do meet.

[n9103]

Shitty games should not be encouraged, and all games should have a demo.
That's my viewpoint on how I justify piracy to see where to spend my gaming dollars.
If you're looking for a regular paycheck, and can't invest the time/effort to make a game worth buying, go corporate.
Call of Duh will always sell.

[MrWiggles]

Demo largely disappeared because they dont work. They didnt generate sales, or promote the game well. So why keep using it?

[Jiokuy]

I just wanted to chime in and say. All of my game purchases in the late 90's/early 2000's were based off of game demo's. They were really effective at giving me a feel for what the game would play like, while also teasing for more.

In my opinion, demo's weren't a waste of time, but they aren't coming back anytime soon. Demo's are reasonably effective at promoting the game. However anyone reasonably skilled at making a good demo can make a lot more money in the social gaming market, which uses a very similar skill set to make most of their games.

Do you guys think there well ever be support for multiple colonies? That was always one of the limitations I strained against from the Seirra games like Pharaoh/Cesar/Zeus to Dwarf Fortress. Even if time was stopped Sims style, I would enjoy the ability to at least pretend I was slowly colonizing an entire planet. (To be honest this is likely once again a pipe dream, alas it is too little game-play for such a significant resource investment.)

[dennislp3]

My biggest issues...were when a demo was DRASTICALLY different than the final game...usually the demo was better

[KingofstarrySkies]

Demos are fun. There! My two cents!

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[Shooer]

Do you guys think there well ever be support for multiple colonies? That was always one of the limitations I strained against from the Seirra games like Pharaoh/Cesar/Zeus to Dwarf Fortress. Even if time was stopped Sims style, I would enjoy the ability to at least pretend I was slowly colonizing an entire planet. (To be honest this is likely once again a pipe dream, alas it is too little game-play for such a significant resource investment.)

There already is support for multiple colonies, they just don't interact yet.  You create a world and then choose where you want to place your colony, and then you just save your colony state like in any other game.  Then instead of loading your last colony you can just start a new one on the same world.  So right now it is the sims style, just no interaction.

The whole world system isn't done yet, the last few biomes aren't even open yet.


Also on the whole demo thing: Don't expect a demo from a major company, they've all come to the same conclusion.  Out of 9 possible combinations between good, mediocre and bad game and demo combinations only 1 will increase sales, the majority hurt sales and the rest have a overall neutral effect.

[Sergius]

The problem with AA titles (or AAA? or are those batteries?) is that demos are in most cases counterproductive, and they rely on the inability of buyers to determine the game quality before spending their money. So, they may lose the careful customers, but I suppose they make it up in numbers from impulse buyers.

There ARE really good games, but probably the big producers are not going to take the chance anyways.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I-it's triple A. So AAA. Double A is batteries.

Sillyface.

[My Name is Immaterial]

There are also AAA batteries.

[Girlinhat]

There are also AAA batteries.

Sometimes I love the quotes out of this forum, in context or out.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I have seen one use for Triple A batteries, and that was for a shite remote that lasted about three days before I lobbed it out the window screaming profanity at it, then proceeded to dig about in the garden because I realized it hadn't broke at all but I in fact had mistaken it for being broken due to a dead battery, thus making me want to shank the universe and everything in it.

The end.

[MaximumZero]

So, I wanted to check this out, but the point of entry into an alpha game should absolutely not be $30. Madness.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Aye. A bit steep. Which is why I, shamefully, pirated it. The day it comes out, I will purchase it in full.

That day ain't here yet.