demo availability?

[Griefmaker]

You guys are missing the point of my post. It's to show the DEMO RELEASE DATE. Not the game release date, if you look at posts higher up all they seem to know is October sum time.

So if there is a deal LIKE this in your country you can either pre-order and get the demo early on the 14th or not and DL with everyone else on the 16th

So it's not bad marketing by SEGA or forcing you to buy from New Zealand.

[Stig]

Well it's bad marketing, if you want to do it properly put a week inbetween, even the average .com MTW2 forum fanboy can wait for 2 days ... I guess

[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

[Hochmeister]

You guys are missing the point of my post. It's to show the DEMO RELEASE DATE. Not the game release date, if you look at posts higher up all they seem to know is October sum time.

So if there is a deal LIKE this in your country you can either pre-order and get the demo early on the 14th or not and DL with everyone else on the 16th

So it's not bad marketing by SEGA or forcing you to buy from New Zealand.

WoooHooo

One advantage to living at the bottom of the world!!

Kia Ora Bro thanks for the news,looking forward to my early demo download

[Griefmaker]

WoooHooo

One advantage to living at the bottom of the world!!

Kia Ora Bro thanks for the news,looking forward to my early demo download

Yeah mate, 14th october here we come
Don't forget to post in the GP forums once you have it, let's find out who can start a thread first about it