Thoughts on studios not releasing demos?

[Groo The Perverted]

So over the course of this past year I've spent a shit ton of money on games via the PSN. I'd say the vast majority of those were ones I had zero knowledge of before buying it.

And I found that many of the regret purchases would not have been purchased if there had been a demo that I could play and see how it goes.

Now a few of those I'll chalk up to being a fluke with me, as I seem to have been the only people in the world that never played Marvel v. Capcom 2 or Dragon's Lair, both I bought for a total of 25 bucks, and both I despised and only played once.

The Demo for MVC2 was a multiplayer only, and I have only one controller, so it was the same in my eyes as not releasing a demo at all, at least for me.

Those I can write off as a fluke because most people had played those before and knew they either liked or disliked it.

However there's a trend of studios not releasing a demo until a month or so after it's released, or not at all. In my eyes, this is simply the exact same thing as a movie studio refusing to screen a movie before critics in advance of it opening. We all know what that means, and when we see "was not screened for critics" we know that the movie probably sucks, and the studios didn't want to risk bad word of mouth from ruining the 1st weekend take.

There's no reason I can think of, unless they're just pinching their pennies, that they can't release a demo of at least a single level so people can get a feel for the controls and how it works, plays and feels.

Even that shitty ass Soul Calibur IV demo which doesn't even let you play a full fight is better than nothing, and it could prevent people from wasting money on games they'll never play after once or twice.

That's why I've decided that from now on, on the PSN store if there's no demo, it's not getting my money. Unless it's offered for free from the PSN+ section. I feel, and this could just be me, that some of these studios know for a fact that their games are a piece of shit, and if they offer a demo up that it will cut into the blind buy sales that would never happen if a demo was available.

As I said, maybe this is just me. But I've grown tired of spending money on worthless trash games, and I'm sure my boycott of games without demos will affect them in zero amount, but it's my little boycott nonetheless.