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LOTR Conquest demo conjures 1 million downloads

by Dustin Burg on Jan 21st 2009 3:00PM

Pandemic Studios just informed us that the Lord of the Rings Conquest demo that released to the Xbox Live Marketplace a few weeks back has been downloaded over 1 million times. That means the demo download has bested Call of Duty: World at War and its nine week run on top.

Congrats to the crew over at Pandemic on their demo download success, but we have to ask; how well did those demo downloads translate into retail sales? One could argue that those sales figures are a tad bit more important.

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Tags: ea, lord-of-the-rings, lord-of-the-rings-conquest, lotr-conquest, pandemic, pandemic-studios

Reader Comments (23)

Hopefully this game will have less bugs than the flaming pile of poop that is Mercenaries 2.

They exchanged bad bugs for bad gameplay. Disappointing to say the least

Are you kidding me? The gameplay is the best part of the game...It's the short campaign that was all but satisfying that i don't like

Its the lack of money that keeps this from being a must-buy for me :(

1 million people that won't be buying the game...sometimes demos backfire

My sentiments exactly. 1 million people now know that this game is not even close to worth 60 dollars. I don't know if I would pay $20 for this in the bargain bin.

Considering I'm a serious LOTR fan (my dog's name is Samwise) and a veteran of the battlefront series, I've been excited about this game for months. After playing the demo I feel incredibly let down.

Yeah... I downloaded it. I would be buying it.

AHH! WON'T! I MEANT WON'T!

Opps, I need to learn to read.

The user base has grown in Dec.

The demo just saved me 65 bucks and made me dug up Battlefront 2

I totally agree with hail2dking, thank god for this demo, with out it I would have likely bought this 'game'.

Remember when Too Human broke XBL demo records?

And then the actual game sales came in, which was like a quarter of that number... still respectable, but ya know?

me and some friends got this game on the day it was released because of the demo hahah.

but im having troubles with it,
i completed the good campaign on the lowest difficulty (i guess casual?) but for some reason it doesn't let me play the evil campaign, even though it shows that i did all of the good campaign. can someone help?

I would double check to see if you need to complete the campaign on a higher difficul...

Oh who am I kidding, the only way to remedy your situation is to sell the game to gamestop and pick up something not-so-craptastic.

I thought it was fun. I loved Star Wars battlefront and though this is a little different... I thought it was pretty good.

I will not be buying the game though. Which I think is the major problem. That's a lot of Demos but as many have said, how will that actually translate into full retail sales? Probably not that many.

And 1 million instant deletions from hard drive due to pure suckage.

I dunno, I have it on rental, and it's not so bad.

I have it through gamefly now and yeah, it's fun to play through. I wouldn't drop $60 on it considering that the campaign modes only last a few hours though. I think it's worth a rent.

The demo was a steamer.

Seriously, I played it once, killed Sauron in one go as a scout and deleted it straight away.
Not my kind of game. Shame really, I was almost looking forward to it.

The best part of the demo was that it made me bust out my Battlefront games and see how awesome they still are. I'll wait for BFIII, rather than buy this poor excuse for a game.

It had potential, but guess what? Every conflict I ever faced in the demo was resolved by rapidly tapping X while running circles around the enemy. Not quite as interesting/ epic as Battlefront.

Man, if you could play as Smeagol, that would be badass...

I had it preordered until the demo. I went in and cancelled and just used that money toward microsoft points instead. I have 1 friend who loves the game though. I would debate spending even 20 on it unless I had a ton of friends who played it.

the game is tripe.. I thought Mercenaries 2 was bad.. but this.. it's far more beleivable to call it a first build..
I got the official mag yesterday.. they gave it 20/100..

i downloaded, played for 10 minutes, and deleted. it sucked. won't be buying. and I am a huge LOTR fan

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