If we take the given fact that demos are there for the users to try the game before they buy it, to know if they like it enough to play a "full length" game, I think this is a good thing. And the only thing we can deduce from the fact that those game, if after the users played the demos, didn't want to buy them, well it meant that either they didn't like the game enough, they didn't feel like it was worth it, or the novelty of the game was over after the Demo.

In all the cases, the only thing the Demo did is to prevent the buyers from buying bad games or games they don't like. So it maybe hurt the game, but it was all for the benefit of the consumer.

On the other hand, if the game company want to try their hand at passing "bad" games for "good" games, so that the buyers buy bad stuff, they should stop the buyers from trying it before. If you want to sell a bottle of water as vodka to someone, don't let him taste it before!

You're absolutely right.

And while we're at it, most thiefs enter houses using doors don't they? We probably should ban doors.

And people who do highway speeding or drug smugling use cars? Probably should ban cars also.

Do you want me to follow that line of thoughts? Because some people use some things illegaly doesn't make it right to ban the thing outright! That's not the same problem!

The Ontario Transport company did the same thing some years ago to stop Allo-Stop to operate in Ontario.

Allo-stop is a wonderful system of carpooling where you call them when you are going from town to town. If you have a car, they will assign you people who don't have them. Money is paid, the guy with the car gets is Gaz paid, the passenger pay a lot less than with Bus Transport, everybody is happy.

I used it sooo much when I was a college student, it saved me hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in transport. Would have gladly used it to go to Ottawa many times, but hey, "unfair competetion" or something...

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