I am talking to you, Blizzard (MWIII)
I remember when virtually every single game allowed you to play a 'Demo' for free, so you could find out exactly what the gameplay is like in any game before playing it. They often came in my cereal boxes as a kid, or free to pick up at the checkout. I still have a cool CD from the 2000s which has like five big studio name Demos in one.
Now that's Pepperidge Farm Remembers. Or did I out myself as too old?
I still have the demo discs that used to come with PC Gaming Magazine. Haha. We're old. :)
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Demos still exist, sure. Just not anywhere to the scale and pervasiveness that they used to. Nor do they come in cereal boxes.
It used to be called early access. At least it wasn't a misleading term.
Nah, ‘open beta’ was the term for a long time; early access is a newer thing.
I think you're misunderstanding what I mean. Early Access is a newer term for getting paid access to a game early. Open beta is an older term but was used for free access to a game early for testing purposes. They used to have different meanings which is why early access was created as a new term to distinguish it from a beta. Calling paid early access a beta is intentionally misleading.
Alright, thanks for the clarification! Honestly, I think both terms are misused all the time and I have just stopped caring about it.
To play MWIII on battlenet, you bet it is. I opted not to, but that's the gimmick lately
The only games I played in early anything were Slay the Spire, Hades and Against the Storm.
I never wagered on shit.