Many gamers have been or are beginning to be fed up with games being released on day 1 with game breaking bugs, fps drops, online connecivity issues, and other problems. After purchasing a game with the above mentioned issues, players often feel robbed of their money as most retailers do not offer refunds on new games that have been opened.
I beleive that a solution to this problem is that on as many platforms as possible, game studios should release a demo of their game on launch day, which can be downloaded by the end user on their platform. This demo should feature the full game in it's entirety. The player will have un restricted access to the game, including online features, for 24 hours after the download. This is beneficial to both game developers and end users.
For the end user, they can assure that the game they are thinking about purchasing is a quality product with as few defects as possible.
For the studio and developers, this system would
1. Promote the game
2. Re establish a broken trust between game studio and gamer.
3. Show the gaming community that the studio is making an effort to hold themselves accountable for the quality of their products.
With the above policy in place and enough game developers adopting it, 2015 can mark the beginning of a new era of trust between consumer and developer.
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This would be good on newer game consoles, PCs are very liable to being abused easily to pirate the games, but all in all this is a great idea. Like that other comment said, don't make it mandatory, just very encouraged. I really like that you said that this would promote game devs to work harder for a good product because they knew they would be held accountable for a crappy product if the game wasn't any good in the free 24 hour trial. The robbing is definitely making us lose trust and it's hard to pick where to put our hard-earned cash with our gaming entertainment. Right on with this idea man, I hope this is employed, we need it, badly.
As much as I wish this would happen, it won't - the gaming industry is focused on money-making already, and having a 24H-Trial on games would lower the amount of money, due to people just spamming it with alt. accounts & hacking methods to transfer their data over the other accounts, making them lose more money than they would if it was pirated - to pirate the game, you need ALL of the game files, for which (in most cases), you have to buy the game. If this petition gets accepted, this would also promote for easier piracy.
Although it would help promote the game, it would probably put a lot of pressure on the license area, for it to maintain its ability to stay available in the time limit set.
Possibly make this optional to the developer's would be a more awesome version instead of a necessary feature to publish. It's sounds great and could possibly be something like shareware.