Demo?
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 7:32 pm
Is a demo being considered? It seems like it would be fairly simple to do, but I might be missing some obvious difficulties.
Tutorial campaign
+ 1-2 missions from (an)other campaign(s)
+ 1 MP mission that is also present in full version, so Demo can be played in MP with people who own the full game. If the demo people can see all the other challenges but can't play them it should be a good stimulation to upgrade to the full version.
Not sure how much modding should be allowed. I remember when I was active in the Total War community people actualy cracked the demo's encrypted files and created tools to do additional scenarios. Only a few units were available (some of which were not available in the official demo) but it extended the demo a lot and got people into modding. So modding a demo is good, but have to be carefull they can't just turn it into the full game.
Tutorial campaign
+ 1-2 missions from (an)other campaign(s)
+ 1 MP mission that is also present in full version, so Demo can be played in MP with people who own the full game. If the demo people can see all the other challenges but can't play them it should be a good stimulation to upgrade to the full version.
Not sure how much modding should be allowed. I remember when I was active in the Total War community people actualy cracked the demo's encrypted files and created tools to do additional scenarios. Only a few units were available (some of which were not available in the official demo) but it extended the demo a lot and got people into modding. So modding a demo is good, but have to be carefull they can't just turn it into the full game.