Bionic Commando multiplayer demo swings onto Xbox Live this month

okay it's not morning anymore, sorry about that...gotta love being a teenager on spring break waking up at 12 in the afternoon :]

I've been at work for 5 hours already. Damn kids!

You should've picked up one of the $30 1yr cards that were everywhere over the last few weeks.

You wouldn't be able to play this online-only demo anyways without Gold.

Meh, I can get them pretty cheap any time with a bit of lurking, but I don't plan on using XBL till Modern Warfare 2 comes out.

I'm hyped for the demo, but I can't see it justifying a $30 purchase.

But all the other goodies that come along with XBL can't justify a $30 purchase???

"Weeeeee" but also "Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay"

.. but that's just me

I do, so shut yo mouth.

Good thing whether or not you care doesn't matter to anyone.

yes

i don't care about you either......

Not really.

Maybe I will after the demo?

I'm not too big into multiplayer games, but it does look pretty fun. Isn't that the point of releasing a demo? To show people that it is fun?

Single player campaign is where I'll be though... and it looks very cool indeed.

i am, this looks friggin awesome. i don't even consider buying games unless it has multiplayer of some sort

lets see
should I pick the service that I can release something for free?
Or should I pick the one I have to pay for?

(its always going to be the free one)

It's not shady. Sony has been doing this for years and now people give a shit because Microsoft is doing it? Come on!

lets see
Should I eat my own shit?
Or pay $4 and have a sandwhich?

(Its always going to be the sandwhich)

The way I see things is that the trivial expense of .16/GB is keeping them from advertising their game to a console with over 20 million people then they have some financial issues because it would cost them more sales then they would gain if the game is solid.

If paying $50/yr for Live gets you access to these demos then so be it. Personally, I'll take the free online service without the demos. After all, you guys with Live are paying more than your fair share to get that content so I can't really be that upset about it. I would rather have the publisher pay the minimal maintenance cost them be gouged as a consumer when I'm already paying for the console, game and my internet connection (which could also be a wireless router + adapter/bridge.)

Let's do some quick math here:

Lets assume the demo is 1 GB in size. Let's then assume that 500,000 downloaded that demo. That would equate to a cost of $80,000 which would be the same as 1,600 of you buying a full priced one year Live subscription, selling 1,230 copies of the game (gross) and/or a tiny portion of their advertising budget ,which, is what this really is in the end anyway. If that expense is to much for them to undertake to get their game in my hands then I'm probably not going to go out of my way to purchase their game. My projections above are essentially a worse case scenario and 9/10 times the costs & file size don't approach that amount. I did similar number on SF2HDRMX & that pirate ship game from Capcom and in the end the cost was trivial.

It would certainly be nice to have the ability to play the demo to see if I like the game. However, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it and I'm not going to act like I'm entitled to this demo because it's not on the PS3. I'm glad that Sony makes the publishers pay because us consumers are getting raped on all sides as it is. It's not like Capcom wouldn't make the money up on some hair brained DLC unlock code post launch anyway.

@Kenny If 50$ (or actually 30$ now) a year gouges a consumer, then they seem to be the one in financial trouble, not the developer.

This was a reply to Matt Ferens above