KoA: Reckoning - Demo Coming Soon

Microsoft's Major Nelson lists an X360 demo for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning for January 17th - a mere week away. For PC and PS3 fans, 38 Games Community Manager 'Muse' confirms a demo will be released for all platforms, though we don't know if the date will be the same:

We can confirm that a demo for Reckoning is coming, and it will be on all platforms. We'll have all the details for you very soon!       

Founder Curt Schilling subsequently made some general comments about the difficulty in designing a demo for an open-world RPG:

We've always believed in the quality of the game, we better ALWAYS believe in the quality of what we make, from game to toy to comic etc.

The problem is the actual demo itself. Not specifically our demo, but ANY demo for a game with 2-300 hours of game play. How can you provide a demo that hits on EVERYTHING that makes your game awesome, without a 4 hour demo, or hit on just ENOUGH to make sure people see the depth in the world AND the combat?

That's the fear, always has been. I've played it, and I think EA did as good a job as could be done with a game of this type. Most of 38 argued against a demo for a long time for the reasons above.

Quick, think of the last time an OPEN WORLD RPG gave you a demo....

Ok now name the last time an OPEN WORLD RPG gave you a GOOD demo.....

It's VERY hard to do, having said that I think EA may have done a good job in setting up Reckoning for gamers that haven't seen the game yet.

If you are buying Reckoning and one of the hard core fans already I'd only buy it for the news that will be coming out shortly, in a few days..... That would be why I would buy it

While we're on Reckoning, a new trailer has also been released.