Re: A Hero's Call: an Accessible Fantasy RPG from Out of Sight Games
@Kody: It's a good question. The answer really has two sides—the practical side, and the business side. The practical side is just that the nature of the gameplay makes it difficult to create a clearly defined demo. We would want any demo to include combat as well as exploration, but the logistical difficulties of determining that you can enter some areas, but not others, was more than we wanted to deal with, particularly in light of reason #2.
But the second, and more important reason, is that there is a lot of data to indicate that game demos actually hurt game sales. And since the overwhelming majority of game developers, from small indies to triple-A studios, do not offer demos of their games, we didn't see any reason to buck the trend. We think the demo recordings give players more than enough idea of what they would be spending their money on, and the price point is low enough by audio game standards that it doesn't seem like that big of a gamble. So the question was: what do we stand to gain by offering a demo, and what do we stand to lose? And all of the data indicates that we have more to lose than we do to gain.
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