Rumor: Square Enix may sell stand-alone Final Fantasy XIII demo

Pay for a demo? Qrap. :(

Maybe they could make it where if you preorder the game, you get a demo disc (And your save file carries over).

HAH! Finally!

I've been Nickeled and Dimed before, but never at the same time within the gaming industry. It's about time this industry treats me like a third class whore!

someone once offered to buy my ff8 demo disc even though they had the game for years. they charge more for magazines that come with demo disc. if it was packaged and had a fair price i see no problem buying a physical version of a demo. i wouldn't pay for a download nor the chance to get a download mere days before it was free. but there are people who see nothing wrong with paying a recurring fee to play part of a game they already paid for.

Randy, have you played GT5?

Well, I bought the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm demo, soooo....

Anyway, in-game advertising is a bigger problem to me.

I know someone who's going to be really mad about this...

Well this clearly an attempt to milk the FF fanbase which is huge in Japan and not so much in North America and Europe.

Either that or the production of FF is really expensive and they need all the mula they can get.

If they do it I can already see FF fans falling for the trap while everyone else, unless they have spare change and the demo happens to be dirt cheap, ignores it. I just hope it doesn’t becomes a trend although I have to pay for the Gold service in order to download demos.

They could also release demo for the demo (It sounds stupid but is not like it didn’t happened before) for all of us who still have a functional brain…er…I mean, those who don’t love FF that much.

SE could also start releasing FFXIII in Episodes for a fraction of the full price like Valve.

If it's a dollar, maybe. Otherwise, count me out. Also, other companies better not start following suit if this does go down.

What's up with everyone feeling so entitled? You know that game developers don't have to give you a demo at all right?