Which are you more excited about/see yourself playing?

[Golem]

lol, I'd love to have a trial version of every game, but guess what. That's not gonna happen.

On Steam you get to try a released game for 2 hours and Ubisoft and Blizzard usually do open betas. And all the other games are either run of the mill or you can pirate them.

imo having a trial version is a really good thing, even if most people wont buy the game, because many more people will hear about it, people love free stuff

[Kelugarn]

On Steam you get to try a released game for 2 hours and Ubisoft and Blizzard usually do open betas. And all the other games are either run of the mill or you can pirate them.

imo having a trial version is a really good thing, even if most people wont buy the game, because many more people will hear about it, people love free stuff

The trial of M&B was what led to me buying it all those years ago.

[Falka]

After a few thousands hours spent in cRPG, the least you can do to somewhat repay donkey crew for their work is to buy Okam, trial or no trial.

[Yeldur]

lol, I'd love to have a trial version of every game, but guess what. That's not gonna happen.

Forgive me if I don't trust your judgement considering you're not a developer of this game and don't actually know what they have planned for the game.

[Kasigi_Yabu]

More excited for OKAM, pretty confident the Donkey Crew will make a game that I will rank above all others

[Golem]

Magazines still do that.

Oh yeah. My friend bought a magazine with the original Mount&Blade in it, that was the first time I played it. Then like a year later a saw that Warband is coming out - my friend never got it, though. 

[Taser]

The trial of M&B was what led to me buying it all those years ago.

A ripperx vid was what led me to buy it.

[MacX85]

Well, I have been skeptical about oKaM's combat system since they introduced stances in the official dev blog...

BUT I can honestly say that I have been converted by now since I had the opportunity to test it on a daily basis against bots.
It does feel more fluid and fun compared to Warband.

I have lost all interest in playing Warband MP because to me it feels less fun by now.

The only complaint that remained for me is that due to the fluidity of stance changing often enough stances change unwittingly because I still need to focus on having my enemy in the middle of the screen while circling around.
There is a work-around for that however as they introduced a "lock stance" key (natively on ctrl) which works reasonably well.

From the feedback I've read so far I seem to be the only one struggling with that issue so I guess that isn't a game breaking problem afterall.

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on topic:

I'm far more excited for oKaM than for Bannerlord simply because I don't really care for singleplayer and I'm generally uninterested in round-based multiplayer matches since 2004 (when PlanetSide 1 was released).
I always wanted multiplayer games to feature big persistent worlds to have meaningful global warfare.

I'm sure Bannerlord will be fun to play for a while but unless there won't be a way better "Persistent World Mod" I can hardly get excited for it anymore.

[MacX85]

I've done some models for the game.

And that is the primary reason I'd love to have a trial version of this game released to everyone if you can do something like that, it means we get to try out the game, and figure out whether we like it BEFORE we invest our money into it, before buying games I love the ability to try it out before I buy, and if the option is there, I use it, however sadly now there aren't that many people that do things like this, meaning that I either have to take a dive in and say "Meh fuck it, I'll either like it or I'll have wasted my money".

I liked what Life is Feudal (for the final MMO release at least) had in mind concerning that:
you can download the game for free and play 24h on a tutorial island to get used to the mechanics. After that 24h all your progress will be deleted.
When you pay the game your character will be transported to the main island where you have access to everything.

That wouldn't be so bad for oKaM either:
Download the game for free, play against bots on a tutorial map and pay to unlock all the features.

[Yeldur]

I've done some models for the game.

I liked what Life is Feudal (for the final MMO release at least) had in mind concerning that:
you can download the game for free and play 24h on a tutorial island to get used to the mechanics. After that 24h all your progress will be deleted.
When you pay the game your character will be transported to the main island where you have access to everything.

That wouldn't be so bad for oKaM either:
Download the game for free, play against bots on a tutorial map and pay to unlock all the features.

Sounds great, I'd be down for that if Donkey Crew were to implement something like this!

[Varadin]

Downloaded demo , played it . Begged my poor Serbian father to buy me a game


So i am all about trial / demo game.

[Voncrow]

I feel like trials are great for games that can't afford a lot of advertising. A lot a people will play a free trial to try games. Also those who tell friends about the game are more likely to get them to play a trial than buy a game. It also doesn't help that few big youtubers play warband. The biggest I can think is Surriel beliefs and Mathas.