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Dingolicious

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"Demo" suggestion
« on: January 25, 2008, 02:01:45 am »
Hi all, first post and all, and it's going to sound like i'm just here to whine about how short the demo is. Let me clarify that actually this is a suggestion for the demo until the real version is released.

So right now the limit is 5 songs, ever. I think this limit is too low to really try out songs on it, and if nothing else the user should be warned before they start playing through their collection, as the "Save the best til last" mentality will obviously fall flat on it's face here. However i digress.

So my suggestion would be to allow people to either load up 3 songs/5 songs and play them as much as they want (Once they're preloaded they can be played as much as you want sort of thing) or to allow people to play 3/5 songs per day.

So before people start calling me bad things and telling me i'm just in it for myself and my addiction, hear me out. I feel that if you let people play more, they will become even more hyped up about the game, and be more likely to buy it, more likely to spread the word etc. Right now people play their 5 songs and get hit with the brick wall that is the demo expired message. At that point the user loses interest.

I understand that you don't want to essentially give people a full version to play, because then nobody would buy the actual game, but i feel the current demo is too restrictive.

Thanks
Dingo

P.S. sorry for the wall of text...

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Re: "Demo" suggestion
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2008, 05:43:00 am »
Did you happen upon this demo this week? The weekends give you unlimted play.

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Re: "Demo" suggestion
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2008, 11:43:24 am »
Did you happen upon this demo this week? The weekends give you unlimted play.

Where Can I get it? :O

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Re: "Demo" suggestion
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2008, 01:41:47 pm »
Did you happen upon this demo this week? The weekends give you unlimted play.
ALL the weekends? and yes i got it yesterday...

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Re: "Demo" suggestion
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2008, 01:07:20 am »
u have got the beta weekend?:O

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Re: "Demo" suggestion
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2008, 02:46:45 am »
u have got the beta weekend?:O

well it's the weekend now, and i still have to "buy" the game apparently.

i did put my email address down.

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Re: "Demo" suggestion
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2008, 03:05:40 am »
Just wait. It may start up later. I mean, the day JUST started. It's 6am where I am, and I'm not sure what Dylan's timezone is so just be patient.

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Re: "Demo" suggestion
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2008, 03:58:55 am »
i know mate, but i'm not even sure if this weekend is MEANT to be a beta weekend or not, nobody's said either way.

I think the radio songs are great, but i'm really itching to play some more of my own music, ya know?

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Re: "Demo" suggestion
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2008, 10:28:38 am »
I'm not sure what Dylan's timezone is so just be patient.
I believe that it's PST ;)
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Re: "Demo" suggestion
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2008, 06:33:14 am »
Well, since betas have ended around 3:30est for the past weekends, Dylan only has six hours to get the next beta up.
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Re: "Demo" suggestion
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2008, 03:11:24 am »
just so people know, the beta weekend doesnt happen every weekend.