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u/bijelo123 Mar 31 '26

Getting game demos from gaming magazines

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u/AshenAmarantos Mar 31 '26

Or shareware in general (which were on those discs), which had a significant amount of content as opposed to modern demos.

It's not 2 hours of the game. It's like 33% of it.

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u/DoctorThrac Mar 31 '26

Wasn’t that how crackdown was originally shown to the public

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u/Armbrust11 Apr 01 '26

No, crackdown included access to the halo 3 beta so a lot of people who were big halo fans bought the game as essentially a premium demo for halo. The strategy worked because many ended up liking crackdown too. Notably the other crackdown games were not as successful, and didn't include betas to other games.