Madden NFL 10 Demo to Feature Four - 5 Minute Quarters

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Madden 10 pre-order: Done!

[StormJH1]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rebel10

I hate Gamestop more than I hate the honta virus. But... I like that they're giving a 20min demo, which is much better than most football games, limited to just a few minutes of play. Choosing to do the demo release through a pre-order and through gamestop achieves a couple things. One, Gamestop pays EA for this exclusivity, which in turn gaurantees Gamestop a certain amount of business. Two, by pre-releasing a demo to early reservation crowds, those are people who would be more likely to like the game regardless of its flaws. Now, that might not work so much when it comes to us at OS who are more critical of our favorite games, but for the majority of people who pre-order, they're more likely to give a positive review of the game than the general Joe Schmoe who downloads it from XBL on a whim. It's smart by EA & Gamestop. Gamestop, though, is one of the stores that is on my perma-black-list and I think I'd rather punish myself and wait two weeks than give them $5 for a pre-order or force myself to buy the game there.

Assuming you're a consumer like I am, I don't know what your beef is. GameStop makes sick profits on trade-ins, but that's entirely to the consumer's benefit. It's not even like it used to be where I'm buying somebody's used cartridge with their crappy save information still on it...a used 360 disc (assuming it's not scratched up) is no different than a new version of the game. So, even if my savings is only $5 (though it's usually much more later in the life span of the release), why would you pay full value.

The better question is how these game companies can stomach crawling into bed with GameStop. THEY'RE the ones getting burned, since they make money off of NEW copies sold into the stream of commerce. The developer only gets one sale while GameStop gets to buy and sell the game multiple times over a period of years for a profit each time!

[JB0B0]

just got off the phone with gamestop, the guy said that they would start giving out the codes in 2 weeks, but hes not sure when the demo will be available to actually download

[swaldo]

Madden doesn't want to step on NCAA's toes right in the middle of their marketing hype & release. When things with NCAA settle down that's when to start firing up the Madden hype.

NCAA 09 release date: July 15, 2008 Tuesday
Madden 09 early demo release date: July 22, 2008 Tuesday
Madden 09 public demo release date: Aug 1, 2008 Friday

NCAA 10 release date: July 14, 2009 Tuesday

So if things follow the same pattern as last year with the public demo being released on Friday, July 31 I think the demo will be released on Tuesday, July 21. At the latest I'd say July 24 if they want to do a Friday release for the weekend.

If anyone is still on the fence about acquiring the early demo, keep in mind the public demo will only be 1 minute quarters. Have fun practicing your coin tosses and kickoffs.

[gameplayer321]

i read somewhere that the early demo will be out july 15th. either way, I pre-ordered my copy so I'll get the 5 minute demo

[murdamann10]

Quote: Originally Posted by gameplayer321

i read somewhere that the early demo will be out july 15th. either way, I pre-ordered my copy so I'll get the 5 minute demo

link?

[Scott]

Quote: Originally Posted by murdamann10

link?

Read post #1.

[TheSaint92]

I just preordered Friday. I hope they don't run out in my neghborhood. I live by 3 Gamespots so it's whatever.