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Originally posted by olf_le_fol:
Then IMHO those people are idiots and don't know a thing about how something called "advertisement". It's the purpose of ads. to show you a product in the best way possible and "trick" you into buying it.
Yep. That's why they often say that they want demos to help them decide the hard "buy or not?" question.
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As for "trying before buying", how often does someone "try" his new computer before buying it, or actually read a book before buying it, or try any new device before buying it? To me, stuff like games, books, movies, etc. should be bought/watched based on reviews mostly. Of course, to have a playable is a plus, but not an absolute prerequesite!
Um, in the "trying before buying", I think that depends on what you are going to buy; People do know that a computer works (if it is sold by a legal company it has to work, and if not, they can request that the company provides them witha new, working computer accordign to the law here), and some people still even go as far as requesting it to be tested a little. And as for books and movies; it isn't really the same as a game; a book may be brought only for the story in it, and people will often peek into the book before buying it, or even borrows it at a libray and then buy it if they think it is good enough, and the same goes for movies; most people first rent the movie on video or DVd or see it at the cinema as soona s it is released, and so on. But a gmae may be brought not only for the story, but the gameplay itself. the SIMS was as far as I know not popular for it‰s story (if there even was any), but for the gameplay. Gangsters was also almost without a story, if i remember corrwcrlt (the first, anyway) and most brought it because that the gameplay let you step into the shoes of a would-be Godfather. and that's why many want playable demos, to experience the gameplay, not the story (western demos are based more on gameplay than story, as I'm sure you've already noticed), and why they're disstatsfised with just demomovies. Not all are like that, through, I'm fine with movie demos, even if it once in a while would be fun to encounter a playable demo.