Day of Defeat: Source Free Weekend Pre-Loading

July 6, 2006 6:05 PM

The Steam website notes that preloading for a second Day of Defeat: Source Free Weekend is now underway. If you have Steam installed you can click this link to start preloading the new data added by the recently released Summer Update patch.

Maarten Goldstein

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July 6, 2006 7:32 PM

So... is the fact that they keep doing free weekends of this thing just an exposition of technology, or a sign that the game didn't sell well?
- Sturm08
  
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  July 6, 2006 7:38 PM
  
  I'm guessing it didn't sell well, which is an utter shame. It's an awesome game -- my favorite multiplayer shooter at the moment.
- Gnerma
  
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  July 6, 2006 7:39 PM
  
  The idea that a company is promoting or advertising their product only because its not doing well doesn't make sense. If I had to guess the reason would be the first time they did it they got:
  
  income due to free weekend - cost of free weekend = profit
  
  So why not?
- zehh
  
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  July 6, 2006 7:51 PM
  
  I think it's just because it's so damn easy, and because it actually works. The last time they did it with DoD (Feb/06), the average number of players more than doubled over the free weekend; after the weekend, the average player base had increased by 40% more or less (which I believe where actually due to people who purchased), and has been stable since then.
  
  So in the end, I think it's a good way of doing a time-limited demo, giving people the taste of the real game, and profiting from it.
  
  I think numbers ought to be smaller this time around, since most people have already had the chance to test DoD though.