I agree with everything you said except for the PC Demo originally being planned.
No, it took several threads spanning hundreds of pages of support before Crytek considered releasing a PC Demo. I have first hand experience since I was pretty much the one to bring up the issue and hammer it home to Crytek.
The Xbox demo's required no threads asking for it because they were planned all along with EA's little deal with Microsoft.
Just a note of mine to clarify your op, but i do agree with the main point of selfishness.
Sorry, but you don't know what is or isn't planned until it's announced. You're only speculating that a PC demo was released because "it took several threads spanning hundreds of pages". We aim to bring the game to as many people as possible and it makes sense that would include a demo on all platforms as it has just been recently announced. Just because something isn't announced [yet] doesn't mean it's not going to happen.
Also, moved to Feedback & Support
Although I didn't following the whine threads requesting a PC demo (as I didn't think it'd actually make a difference) Shi...
Adam's post is what I thought was happening here - people not understanding that although the PC demo was announced after their biching it wasn't necessarily released
because of it.
Exactly what I was going to write Cry Adam, just because people rage a lot before it's announced does not mean it wasn't going to come anyway. Heres what I think: Crytek wants to save pc for near the end of their marketing plan so all the pc players are dazzled and are like "OMG why did we ever not trust crytek, lets now give thank you six to cevat" and also so that Xbox and PS3 players aren't like "OMG look how much better it is on pc, I'm depressed now......I'm going to go have regretful six with my cat".
And then because Xbox was running smoother than the PS3 version Crytek brings out a beta for it just to test how the game runs and was going so far and PC starts raging because their isn't a pc beta yet and starts making lots of threads complaining thinking that they're making a difference when it's already in the schedule.
So then later it's still too early to release the pc demo yet so they release a pre Xbox demo just to check again how good it is running, if it is fun and build up some more anticipation among console players. PC gamers start crying about this being a crysis in the crysis marketing schedule and why are weee not getting a demo even though a main demo usually doesn't come out a month or two before release. Some silly billy says "Hmmm maybe we can teach this pc only company for 12 years how to treat pc players and convince them to get us a demo" and makes a giant new thread plus some others on getting a demo for pc.
A PC demo is announced on schedule and PC gamers rejoice.......Now PS3 gamers begin getting paranoid and whining about why there's no demo for them and start making threads whining about it. A little while later (as little as 3 days some pc gamers start getting speculative and wondering when the demo is coming out. Some people start saying it's a lie and some start saying it'll probably come out after the game is released (whaaa?).
The PS3 demo is announced and everyone rejoices it's what everyone wanted...... Crytek is mischevious with glee despite getting owned by the game being leaked, now all they've got to do is announce the xbox 360 proper demo to go along with the full pc demo and ps3 demo coming a little after.....
"OHNOES there's another Xbox demo coming out Whine whine whine whine whine bla bla whine pc bla xbox bla bla ps3 bla bla whine/ Countless threads spawned with less than a week till the Pc demo. OK so everyone got what they want, now also everyone's getting the same quality demo instead of xbox having the inferior demo which would have started more complaining. And now to top it off, people stuck up in their own importance or maybe just ignorant to demos usually coming out a month or two before release start saying that it was all because of them that there is a pc demo.
The main point here (there are probably others that I forgot halway through writing as well) Patience is a virtue. Don't whine about Pc footage not being shown when there is a demo coming out in a few days. Don't say that they are favouring Xbox over PC when they've made 3 games soley for pc and most of the leak players (sorry for mentioning them crytek) say it is a great game on pc. Just wait, wait a tiny bit and maybe write some productive threads about what way the story is going and how are they going to tie in a cerain game mechanic in to the game oh and use the search function before making an uneccesary thread, you can maybe even do The Creep for a little bit. And then there you go, all in all a demo has been released for all platforms which is the best outcome out of that that could have possibly happened and all the next demos will all be released around the same time so we'll know how they all stack up and no one will be able to complain about having an earlier build so just be thankful. Most of the things people have complained about are things that crytek has confirmed or released anyway, it's freaking less than a month till the game weve all been waiting for comes out guys so just hang on
oh and sorry about the epicly long post guys.
Almost exactly my opinion as well and this serval welcomes potentially attractive female console gamers who are now regretful about gaming on consoles that are not as powerful as modern PCs.
Despite what many of you may think it was indeed necessary to quote that - feel free to quote me if you agree.
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