gamespot is misleading

[d8cam]

At the time of making this post...if you go to www.gamespot.com

It will say "PC Demo" and under it "Half-life 2"

I was about to go crazy then it turned out to be the tech movie grrr

You may have to refresh the page several times or click "See more"

 

[commando]

grrr he he thanks

 

[scribblehead]

Yes, and its not the first time, they did the same when they released the e3 vids, it was driving me ****ing nuts!!!

 

[trantjd]

Yeah, a friend of mine told me that the demo was out the other day, but that they couldn't download it because they didn't have a gamespot account...I had to break the news to him.

I'm pretty sure their system has to have it as a demo because it's an executable. "Movies" probably have to be of a certain file type.

 

[Feath]

Yeah, they are Demos of Half-Life 2.

Demo means Demonstration. They aren't being misleading at all, you are just assuming they mean "Playable Demo" when they don't.

A few years ago, on magazine cover disks, you used to get a lot of "Rolling Demos" which was just the game playing a short portion of itself. These are a lot more rare now.

 

[cueball]

feath dont be so ****ing picky wen people say demo they usauly mean palyable

 

[Magicpants]

No i agree with Feath he really has a point.

If you're gonna be vague about something.... where do you stop?

 

[Mountain Man]

They're taking advantage of the fact that "demo" is a loosely defined term. It's just good ol' fashioned marketing at work.

 

[Magicpants]

demo.... hmmm..... demolition... OMG

flaaaaame meeeee

 

[A2597]

*Grabs torch*

sorry.

Seriously though, that does need to be changed....

 

[Feath]

I wasn't been picky I'm just saying it's not as misleading as you think.

I think a Half-Life 2 would pretty much crash the internet. I mean, people downloading Steam has put a strain on a lot of servers. Imagine a Half-Life 2 demo.