RWC 2011 Demo - Official Announcement

[Getofmeland]

We are in the 21st Century no one is ever patient anymore... We don't need to be we have the Internet!

 

[DorceOutSide]

glad i have an xbox instead of a ps3 now !

 

[david0404]

Just out of curiosity- why is the demo coming out on XBOX one day before PS£? Is there a reason why both cannot be released on the same day?

 

[Blackie252]

Just out of curiosity- why is the demo coming out on XBOX one day before PS£? Is there a reason why both cannot be released on the same day?

Both platforms have certain days in which they Update content on Their servers, It just happens that the PS network is behind Xbox Live!

 

[TRF_woosaah]

well i dont normally download demos or trailors (i think i have downloaded one demo ever, and i dont think i ever played it) i may download this. Though saying that I might just wait for the game as between this coming out and the game coming out I am moving from wellington to chch so ill be without the ps3 for a week or so. not the end of the world though, just makes it that more exciting when the game does come out.

 

[Papachinzo]

Can you edit players in the demo??

 

[David Smith]

Can HB, I live in Australia and we in front of Britain and Canada by a lot. Will release the 2nd here or do I have the wait the whole day until in clicks over in the 2nd for your country?

 

[takaiisanii]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH awesome! lol what dte is the demo releasing in Australia?

 

[Montalo]

any idea when the demo is in the states, or is it still 3 AUG

 

[esoj]

Well from what I know xbox live and psn get updated at different times around the world so some places might get it earlier than others depending on when they get their weekly updates. The US stores may not even get it if the full game isn't going to be distributed there.

 

[ak47]

for demos normally us aussies have to wait a day - this occurs for the EA sports games
EA upload into server on US Date, to which is normally a day later in Aus.
On the flip side, a release date is by the calendar, and sometimes australia/nz gets games before the usa

but i am not sure with this game

 

[Montalo]

Well from what I know xbox live and psn get updated at different times around the world so some places might get it earlier than others depending on when they get their weekly updates. The US stores may not even get it if the full game isn't going to be distributed there.

I was under the belief that it would come stateside. nothing to back it up, but.

 

[David Smith]

HB we need answers

 

[TRF_heineken]

Well i was wondering since we are the only group of avid followers of RWC2011, and we helped shape the game (so we hope)... isn't there a possibility that we might get a special code or something to download it even earlier than the preset date?

like to download it directly from hb's website?

even if it's just a day or week earlier? just to brag to everyone else that you got it before them?? sounds like a new advertising campaign...

 

[Getofmeland]

If it was PC then yes, but because it is only Xbox 360 and PS3 your plan is floored

 

[The big Kangaroo]

will the demo be two player ?

 

[TRF_heineken]

If it was PC then yes, but because it is only Xbox 360 and PS3 your plan is floored

How so? with a lot of PS3 games you get a unique code to download special content from the PSN... al that HB needs to do is to send each of us here on TRF to our profile an individual passcode for the download. any idiot who tries to give out that passcode to someone else before he downloads his own copy first, will then not be able to do that...

is it really that hard??

 

[esoj]

I don't know if it still happens but a couple of years ago sony started charging companies 16 cents per gigabyte of bandwidth used in the first 60 days of a demo or dlc being released on the psn. It may not sound like a lot but it can quickly add up with enough people downloading especially since demos nowadays are often around the 1gig mark or more. I'm going to speculate here but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that the budget for Rugby World Cup 2011 is quite tight and even something as small as letting people download the demo early could affect that budget in a big way.

 

[teldalati]

Will it be available to download from any country or just from those where the game is going to be released? Again, asking about Spain...

 

[JaredBenjamin97]

<meta charset="utf-8">Will it be available to download from any country or just from those where the game is going to be released? Again, asking about Spain...

if its on the playstation network im pretty sure you can download it from anywhere