No such thing as demos anymore these days. If you want a demo of a game you can obtain the game illegally and see if you like it, then buy it if you do. Of course, at that point why bother buying it if you already have it?
At some point the game industry thought this was a good idea and pretty much forced anyone's hand who wanted to demo a game before buying it. Not our fault.
That said, a demo would do very little for the hardcore Oddworld fans. We already know we want to get the game no matter what. Would probably generate quite a bit of sales from newcomers to the franchise though.
Still, screwing over a portion of your customer base is not the way to combat piracy. If anything you're causing more people to pirate because they don't like your business anymore. Someone who would gladly buy the game on a regular release day might decide to pirate it instead if the developer decides to screw them over like this *cough*. Just saying.
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