A credit card required to play a frikin DEMO!

[CrowDog]

Just downloaded the 1.2 gig Earth and Beyond demo....spent like 20mins going through setup and install....and then it requires a credit card for verification purposes???!!!!!!!!:|:disgust:

What a buncha crap.....got to have good credit to play a god-damn demo!!!!!!

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[WhiteWonder]

i'v noticed that with mmorpg game demos, kinda sucks.

is it a beta or a demo?

 

[CrowDog]

Its the demo

 

[LH]

Actually its the full game. FYI. After the time trial is up you can subscribe I believe.

 

[ElFenix]

sounds like one of those AOL demos where if you don't cancel they'll start charging you.

 

[LH]

That would be it.

Sorta how you get a month free with all MMOGs but they require a CC to signup for the month free.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Well d'uh. The demos are for getting paying customers down the road, not to give children a free month of gaming. Requiring a CC up-front is right way to do things, then you're only dealing with people who have the ability to pay once the free period passes. Without that the servers will be overloaded with 13 year olds who can't pay monthly without mommy and daddy footing the bill. Think of it as just requiring a valid drivers license before a car dealer will let you take a test drive. If you're not a potential customer you're not worth the time or money to get a freebie.

 

[erikiksaz]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Well d'uh. The demos are for getting paying customers down the road, not to give children a free month of gaming. Requiring a CC up-front is right way to do things, then you're only dealing with people who have the ability to pay once the free period passes. Without that the servers will be overloaded with 13 year olds who can't pay monthly without mommy and daddy footing the bill. Think of it as just requiring a valid drivers license before a car dealer will let you take a test drive. If you're not a potential customer you're not worth the time or money to get a freebie.

Yes, but think of how many adult players will be turned off by the fact that you have MUST input your CC information. I sure as hell wouldn't, not for any game.

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Well d'uh. The demos are for getting paying customers down the road, not to give children a free month of gaming. Requiring a CC up-front is right way to do things, then you're only dealing with people who have the ability to pay once the free period passes. Without that the servers will be overloaded with 13 year olds who can't pay monthly without mommy and daddy footing the bill. Think of it as just requiring a valid drivers license before a car dealer will let you take a test drive. If you're not a potential customer you're not worth the time or money to get a freebie.

Bullsh!t. Having to give CC information to SEE a demo is wrong. *I* will never play/buy/sell a game that does that. Using your flawed logic, if there was a problem as you describe, and the game companies wanted to address it, they could simply limit the demos to a more conservative time period, say 7 days.

 

[hdeck]

a lot of mmorpgs do this so they can test their credit card system and make sure there aren't any screw ups when the game goes retail

 

[spaceman]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Well d'uh. The demos are for getting paying customers down the road, not to give children a free month of gaming. Requiring a CC up-front is right way to do things, then you're only dealing with people who have the ability to pay once the free period passes. Without that the servers will be overloaded with 13 year olds who can't pay monthly without mommy and daddy footing the bill. Think of it as just requiring a valid drivers license before a car dealer will let you take a test drive. If you're not a potential customer you're not worth the time or money to get a freebie.

thats absurd.i dont care if the game was the 2nd coming.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Well d'uh. The demos are for getting paying customers down the road, not to give children a free month of gaming. Requiring a CC up-front is right way to do things, then you're only dealing with people who have the ability to pay once the free period passes. Without that the servers will be overloaded with 13 year olds who can't pay monthly without mommy and daddy footing the bill. Think of it as just requiring a valid drivers license before a car dealer will let you take a test drive. If you're not a potential customer you're not worth the time or money to get a freebie.

THIS IS A DEMO. not the full game. if its a MMORPG like Everquest then yes i expect to pay monthly..But thats for the full game. I did not have to use a CC for the beta.

If he got the full game (not demo) then yes he should expect to use the CC. This is not what happend. he downloaded the demo. You should not expect to input a CC for a demo. Unless it tells you before you download that you need one.

considering this is a demo i wouldnt expect to have to.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: hdeck
a lot of mmorpgs do this so they can test their credit card system and make sure there aren't any screw ups when the game goes retail

odd. i didnt have to do this for EQ.

 

[Ender]

... Lineage does the same thng, you can download the client and must verify with credit card to set up an account. IF the game is 1.2 gigs obviously it's more then a demo, for example, the Neocron beta was 1 gig and you could download add-on to make it the full retail. Besides, just becasue a few of you don't want to register with your CC dosen't make it a bad system, if the system didn't work, EA wouldn't use it.

 

[optoman]

Why not just use a one time CC number. Most of the major CC companies offer it and it is no harm to you.