demo availability?

[hoetje]

Hi,

Does anyone know an exact date for demo release?Since CA says the demo will appear very soon,I assume that that will be this week.Anyone know better?

[shifty157]

They havent said a thing.

[Tamur]

I am simply guessing, but by the pace of marketing and the number of trade shows in which they have tested the demo on limited audiences, this week would make sense. However, what makes sense to me rarely fits with reality

[TB666]

Nah I doubt this week.
My guess, in 2 weeks, maybe next week if we are lucky.

[Bob the Insane]

I would not expect to see it until a week or two before release...

That way you get everyone all excited but don't give them the chance pick it to pieces before the full release...

But you never know...

[King Noob the Stupid]

Did they say if the demo will be battles only or if we'll also be able to do a little campaigning (e.g. a tutorial)?

[Mount Suribachi]

Did they say if the demo will be battles only or if we'll also be able to do a little campaigning (e.g. a tutorial)?

IIRC there is a tutorial and the battles of Agincourt and that one between the HRE, France and Spain (somebody throw me a frickin bone here).

We keep hearing "soon". The demo is done, people have played it, but CA have said they are putting the finishing touches to it before it goes on public release. I would check when the next issue of PC Gamer UK comes out. Ian Roxborough (CA PR man) used to work there and they get a lot of scoops, like demos on coverdiscs.

[TB666]

Well if it was a week or 2 before release then they wouldn't use words like "imminent" or "upon us"
The release date for the game is 2 months away, that's not imminent.
The other demos was released around 1 month before release but that is still far away for it to be "soon upon us".

[BaldwinIV]

Maybe in the end of this month. I've such feelings...

[Black Prince]

Has anyone any news or heard any rumours about when the demo is going to be available - I haven't seen any postings on this yet so thought it would be worthwhile starting one!

If the game comes out mid-November there should be something out end of September I would have thought???

[Byzantine Emperor]

There is already a thread on the demo:


https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=69095

Now if only I could close threads...

[Black Prince]

Cheers - couldn't find it initially!

Seems that CA want to leave us in the dark as usual which is a bit sad - you'd think if PC Gamer did have an exclusive they'd be shouting about it on the totalwar.com site so that their buddies at PC Gamer would get more sales. I'm from a marketing background myself (not in the games industry) and I think CA and PC Gamer are missing a trick here and also letting down their customers with lack of info!

[Polemists]

Well several places are announcing it as mid october. So that's when it is. Given the history that most major filesites, gamespot, fileplanet what have you, advertise up coming demos a week before they came out, I think it's pretty safe to say September is out of the running.

Then it's all debate of which week of October that first Monday is the 2nd and I highly doubt it as we get 0 official demo news. So I would guess second or third week of october, currently seems the Third Week.

I agree tho, why CA can't even logically say something like, "Yes the demo will be out in october" Is beyond me. There lack of contact astounds me sometimes. Despite there claim to being gamers I think they can't be, no gammer would leave a fellow gamer in the dark 24/7 about a game they love other then a bi weekly blog update.

[dcd111]

There lack of contact astounds me sometimes.

Worse, they implied somewhere that release would be "imminent", although now I can't remember where I read that (maybe Soulflame's question and answer session?). Probably just someone at CA making the mistake of being overly enthusiastic about their progress, but without that having been said I think people would have resigned themselves to a demo release around one month prior to the game's release, just like RTW (which would correspond with what we've been hearing lately). But expectations were unnecessarily heightened.

- Dan