"Here it is! Today I took a trip to SF to play Final Fantasy XIII, the upcoming anticipated video game, in its complete English form. After following the twitter page of the twitter bus tour, I showed up at the perfect time to get my place in line for the demo. As passersby stopped to ask the people in line what we were lining up for, we gamers quickly made sure to file in. We were given black, short tickets marked "ADMIT ONE". After the initial 25 or so tickets were given, nobody else was allowed to line up. I guess they had to catch the bus at its next location (the bus stayed at each location for about 2 hours)."
"So in groups of 8 people, we all entered the sleek black bus imprinted with Lightning's picture and "FINAL FANTASY XIII", as well as the release date "3.9.2010". Check the pics below. Upon entering, I observed there were four stations of the game set up and running--two on the PS3 and two on the 360. In the middle, there was a big flat screen television playing the latest International Trailer of the game, which was just released this morning. We were split into two groups of four. As the first group played the game (2 on PS3 and 2 on 360), the other watched the trailer (at least, that's what the representatives wanted us to do...)."
"Once the trailer played from start to finish, the two groups switched places. It was, overall, a very short experience. At the same time, it was really exciting to get to be there, playing the latest build of Final Fantasy XIII...a build that many of the press have not even played yet. (According to the Square Enix Rep at hand)."
"The Twitter bus tour goes on until the 16th! Tomorrow, they will be in other areas of San Francisco. On Friday, they will be in East Bay--Emeryville, Oakland, Berkeley. Lastly, they will be in the South Bay--Campbell, Sunnyvale, and San Jose--on Saturday. Be sure to check it out if you are in the area. Definitely something exciting to fill your day as a gamer!"
"Oh, and by the way. The fans in line for the bus were passed around a sign up sheet for a "FFXIII Launch Event" in March when it comes out. Upon further questioning, they had no details yet on when or where, but you betcha I put my name on the list!"
(You can also see a couple of videos at the end of the blog entry, here.)
Source: Gamerspeck
"So in groups of 8 people, we all entered the sleek black bus imprinted with Lightning's picture and "FINAL FANTASY XIII", as well as the release date "3.9.2010". Check the pics below. Upon entering, I observed there were four stations of the game set up and running--two on the PS3 and two on the 360. In the middle, there was a big flat screen television playing the latest International Trailer of the game, which was just released this morning. We were split into two groups of four. As the first group played the game (2 on PS3 and 2 on 360), the other watched the trailer (at least, that's what the representatives wanted us to do...)."
"Once the trailer played from start to finish, the two groups switched places. It was, overall, a very short experience. At the same time, it was really exciting to get to be there, playing the latest build of Final Fantasy XIII...a build that many of the press have not even played yet. (According to the Square Enix Rep at hand)."
"The Twitter bus tour goes on until the 16th! Tomorrow, they will be in other areas of San Francisco. On Friday, they will be in East Bay--Emeryville, Oakland, Berkeley. Lastly, they will be in the South Bay--Campbell, Sunnyvale, and San Jose--on Saturday. Be sure to check it out if you are in the area. Definitely something exciting to fill your day as a gamer!"
"Oh, and by the way. The fans in line for the bus were passed around a sign up sheet for a "FFXIII Launch Event" in March when it comes out. Upon further questioning, they had no details yet on when or where, but you betcha I put my name on the list!"
(You can also see a couple of videos at the end of the blog entry, here.)
Source: Gamerspeck
It's stupid not to mind, yes they may lose sales because people might not like it, but that's the case with every game that has a demo.