Fmrl
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Saturday evening rant (after hearing about the latest LBP "giveaway" on Fileplanet) - I'm getting a bit cheesed off with all this beta key mullarkey (mostly because I never get sent one!). I hope this trend isn't going to become more widespread.
Now that I've got access to PSN and can download demos easily it's a bit frustrating that some of the games I want to have a try on before I decide whether they would be worth buying or not are restricted. Is this a cynical marketing ploy by the publishers?
And I think it's wrong to call them "beta"s anyway - that implies it's the full game but in a pre-release code version. Seems like what's been banded about at the moment are just restricted license demos.
Fileplanet are actually still giving LBP "free" keys away - but you have to subscribe to one of their services to get it... bit dodgy that.
Now that I've got access to PSN and can download demos easily it's a bit frustrating that some of the games I want to have a try on before I decide whether they would be worth buying or not are restricted. Is this a cynical marketing ploy by the publishers?
And I think it's wrong to call them "beta"s anyway - that implies it's the full game but in a pre-release code version. Seems like what's been banded about at the moment are just restricted license demos.
Fileplanet are actually still giving LBP "free" keys away - but you have to subscribe to one of their services to get it... bit dodgy that.