Battlefield 2 Demo truth or hoax?

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In article <1118102930.2189477652dd2db8f91aae0b9fa12b32@teranews>,
Skclown.1q8c6m@no-mx.Usenet-gateway says...
> Battlefield 2 demo to be released on friday june 10th with an exclusive
> with Gamespot. I'm sure though an hour after they release it, it will
> be all over the net.
>
> Is it true?

Lets wait till Friday now shall we? :-)
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"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:08:53 -0400, Skclown
> <Skclown.1q8c6m@no-mx.Usenet-gateway> wrote:
>
>>
>>Battlefield 2 demo to be released on friday june 10th with an exclusive
>>with Gamespot. I'm sure though an hour after they release it, it will
>>be all over the net.
>
> Dunno if it is true, but it could be a dumb move. All the major mirror
> sites got together a while back and said they wouldn't host any demos
> that were previously "exclusives", so they might limit potential sales
> in the future.
> --


Andrew, while technically you are correct and I thought that those sites did
a wonderfull thing, unfortunately it didn't work. www.shacknews.com was one
of those sites that participated in the boycott and if I remember correctly
actually initiated the boycott. Then 2 months later had an exclusive demo of
their own, iow, it was all utter bullshit. I actually cancelled my mercury
account in protest over that. They tried to say that since their exclusive
was a beta and not a demo it didn't count. IMHO, it sure counted as the
point was to get rid of exclusives not just exclusive demos.