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[OT] The countdown and a Halo 2 demo: Logic

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ste
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[OT] The countdown and a Halo 2 demo: Logic

Apologies to the moderators; if you want to lock this topic or dispose of it somehow, feel free, because it's certainly not in-game. But I thought it might help dissuade some of the people who insist there's a demo coming at the end of the countdown.

So.

Games magazines have long lead times, particularly in the US. Their deadlines are a long time before the issue goes on sale. The cover disk deadlines are even further back. I am fairly sure the dates for both for OXM's summer special will have already passed.

Now, the staff on games magazines are not famed for their ability to keep secrets, but even if they were, the magazine has to go through many more hands than theirs before it hits the shelves. If people think they know something that they shouldn't, they like to tell other people. It is hard to secure a watertight game exclusive these days; Internet anonymity has put paid to simplicity there. Demo disks have to go through even more process, even more hands. Secrecy is almost impossible.

Getting Bungie to commit to putting together a single-player demo of a game which will sell without one, a full three months in advance of when it's needed, as they work up to critical crunch-time on one of the most anticipated videogames in recent memory, and not having that information leak?

More than hard. Nigh on impossible.

Or, to put it another way: Impossible enough for it to require a good deal more than a nonsensical anagram and a low-odds numerical coincidence to persuade me it's going to happen.

Of course, I may still be wrong. Nothing is definite. I am using nothing more than logic, no insider knowledge. Just so all cards are on the table, though: I work for a videogame magazine, so I do know what I'm talking about, at least in one respect.

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:57 pm

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Re: [OT] The countdown and a Halo 2 demo: Logic

ste wrote:

Games magazines have long lead times, particularly in the US. Their deadlines are a long time before the issue goes on sale. The cover disk deadlines are even further back. I am fairly sure the dates for both for OXM's summer special will have already passed.

Now, the staff on games magazines are not famed for their ability to keep secrets, but even if they were, the magazine has to go through many more hands than theirs before it hits the shelves. If people think they know something that they shouldn't, they like to tell other people. It is hard to secure a watertight game exclusive these days; Internet anonymity has put paid to simplicity there. Demo disks have to go through even more process, even more hands. Secrecy is almost impossible.

Getting Bungie to commit to putting together a single-player demo of a game which will sell without one, a full three months in advance of when it's needed, as they work up to critical crunch-time on one of the most anticipated videogames in recent memory, and not having that information leak?

More than hard. Nigh on impossible.

Or, to put it another way: Impossible enough for it to require a good deal more than a nonsensical anagram and a low-odds numerical coincidence to persuade me it's going to happen.

Nice points. But I respectfully redirect you to this thread.

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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:02 pm

ste
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Re: [OT] The countdown and a Halo 2 demo: Logic

Apologies, I wasn't trying to be arrogant and just restate the points in that thread - just, in light of the continued demo speculation, I thought it was worth me trying to contribute a definitive, clear statement on something I probably know more about than most. Trying to add pointed signal, not noise.

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:13 pm

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