Honestly i cant understand ea. By distributing a demo early they would get far better feedback from us other than watching vid clips or looking at screenshots.
Also it would give them feedback on what could be changed instead of releasing it and finding out theres a ton off shit that needs patched before everyones happy.
Finally by releasing a demo they would get feedback on what it runs like on a load of different pc configs. I dunno how many games ive seen released with no demo and have problems running on a lot of pc's.
Basically theyre shooting themselves in the foot. Ea might beta test with 40 pc's or so but theres a helluva lot more than 40 pc configs so the game is bound to have issues because of their extremly limited beta testing.
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[This message has been edited by Gerard (edited August 29, 2001).]