Will there be a free demo?

[Natan]

Well there's a demo out for L4D, but it's for people who already paid for the game. my question is will there be a free demo out to entice those who want to try it before you buy it?

my guess is they will have a free weekend thing going on from time to time, like they did with TF2.

 

[Yorick]

The free demo came out yesterday.

 

[Natan]

thanks for the heads up. It's going to take me all night to download it cause I have a slower internet connection.

 

[Lucid]

The demo ends when the full game releases though and that's in less than a week.

 

[Sledgehammer]

Does it just turn off online play, or is singleplayer shut down as well?

 

[CyberPitz]

The entire demo becomes unavailable, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[TimoJay]

If you don't allow steam to connect to the internet, I don't see why you couldn't continue to play single payer.

or... i suppose there could be some kind of local timer/deadline.

 

[Fiberawptic]

If you don't allow steam to connect to the internet, I don't see why you couldn't continue to play single payer.

or... i suppose there could be some kind of local timer/deadline.

you cant access steam at startup if theres no internet, so theres no way around it... JUST BUY THE GAME!

 

[Pesmerga]

You can, Fiberawptic, assuming you have connected to Steam at least once with the internet and choose "Offline mode". But the demo probably has a timer built into it that disallows one to play it after the 18th.