It's official: No PC demo for Lord of the Rings Conquest

Posted Jan 6th 2009 7:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Demos, Action, Multiplayer

If you have been waiting for a playable demo for the PC port of Lord of the Rings Conquest, you are officially out of luck. Big Download has learned that the Electronic Arts fantasy action game, due for release next week, will not see a demo released for the PC platform unlike the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles.

Big Download contacted EA's spokesperson for the game at developer Pandemic Studios who told us flat out, "There is no plan for a demo on PC." The spokesperson did not elaborate on why the PC version will not see such a release. A multiplayer demo for the game was released for PS3 owners just before Christmas and the Xbox 360 console got the same demo the day after New Year's Day.

EA has been notoriously stingy of late in releasing PC demos for its multiplatform games. Two such games released in 2008, Mirror's Edge and Dead Space, had demos for the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles but not for the PC version. And of course neither the PC nor consoles got a demo of EA's 2008 driving game Need For Speed Undercover.

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This really stinks. With my limited funds these days I refuse to buy a PC game without a demo as I can't be sure of the performance on my PC (unlike a console). So this is one customer EA just lost...Posted at 8:10PM on Jan 6th 2009 by David Black

I played the demo on PS3, personally I thought it wasn't as good as BattleFront 2, but then again I don't like LOTR.Posted at 8:25PM on Jan 6th 2009 by Alex

weaksauce.Posted at 8:52PM on Jan 6th 2009 by thethirdmoose

This is why piracy exists. :-|Posted at 11:29PM on Jan 7th 2009 by Greg

I don't know about PS3 or X360, but PC has NFS Undercover demo version.Posted at 4:48PM on Jan 7th 2009 by ErB

EA sucks so much when dealing with the PC Market. No demos, draconian DRM, bad costumer support... Guess they see the pc market as just a "quick buck". Posted at 5:37PM on Jan 7th 2009 by Draken

This only make poeple downloading it.
If they release a demo poeple see if they like it or not.
But without a demo many poeple arent going to buy it because then it is. ''Buy before you try'' and 99% of the time you cant return it to the store. So poeple dont want that, because you risk €50-60. So this makes poeple only downloading it.Posted at 1:52PM on Jan 8th 2009 by I want a demo

There's no way I'd go out and buy a game like this without a demo. My PC should be fine with the specs I've seen online, but that's no guarantee that the game would actually run. The PC is the platform that needs a demo most, console gamers know that the game will run. No PC demo = no purchase from me. Nice work EA.Posted at 7:54AM on Jan 19th 2009 by Where's the PC demo? Huh, punks?