GenieKnows Games Narrowing the field

Apparently creating sandbox style games removes all creative faculties from Clint Hocking's mind.  Clint is the game director for Far Cry 2 and has announced that there are no plans to release a demo for Far Cry 2. 

It seems the open nature of the game prevents the developers from making a reasonable length demo that doesn't spoil hours of gameplay.  Hockings explains:

One reason is, even if we were to give out what you played today - even if we put invisible walls around it and said, here's the demo, you can go anywhere you like inside these walls and play it how you want - that's potentially right there eight-to-ten hours of gameplay. I don't know too many people who are willing to give away a 12-hour game for free.

It's unfortunate that decade old practices of setting time limits on demos slipped Clint's mind.

Source: Eurogamer