Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit demo downloaded over two million times
Posted by Joystiq Nov 11 2010 02:00 GMT in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
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In case the flood of promotional messages from your friends hasn't tipped you off yet, here's some news: a lot of people have checked out the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit demo on Xbox Live and PSN. According to some stats from EA, "more than" two million consoles downloaded the demo within the span of two weeks, making it the most successful demo for the series yet.

Throughout their time with the demo, players have raced across 54 million miles of road in Seacrest County, resulting in over 20 million busts by law enforcement. If you were looking to get in on either side of the conflict, we're afraid you can no longer download the demo. But! We've got the next best thing: our review of the game!.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit launches on November 16 for the PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Windows PC.

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Why would they remove the demo? Not everyone knows about games before they are released.
Reply by Francis Nov 16 2010 18:35 GMT

So they can spread hype about how many people played it and sell more copies to sheeple.

Reply by Maiq the Liar Nov 16 2010 18:43 GMT
But removing the demo will reduce sales. They hype peaked my interest, but now I can't try before I buy. They just lost a potential sale. By the time I am able to try the game some other way (friend's house, rental, or future demo) my interest will be gone and I won't care.
Reply by Francis Nov 16 2010 18:49 GMT
Apparently they removed the demo to free up the autolog servers. I guess that's a reason, but it's stupid of them to not have a demo even it doesn't have autolog.
Reply by Francis Nov 16 2010 18:56 GMT
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