Demos huh, what ever happened to those?
I don't buy a lot of video games. I think World of Goo was the last one. And it was awesome. (Oooh, and Dear Esther - but that's not a game exactly)
But I very nearly brought a couple of interesting looking games since. But then didn't. DX:HR, for example, was a game I didn't buy.
Thing is, my PC is a laptop, and it's a couple of years old too. A whole 2 years old in fact. It's quite a good laptop, but it is a laptop. It doesn't have purple strip lighting inside, alloy wheels or a spoiler or skirts or whatever it is the kids these days do to their beige boxes.
It might manage to run Dishonoured, or it might not. Which is what the old age tradition of the PC game demo is for. To give you [me] a chance to see if you [me] will like it or if it will even run on what ever hardware you [me] happen to have.
In short. No demo, no buy'o.
This isn't supposed to be a nerd rage rant. Just that your game looks interesting, it'd be nice to see interesting games do well and I (and I'm sure a few other people with normal PCs) might well be inclined to give it a whirl if I was sort of confident that I could make it sort of go.
Thank you.