• conciselyverbose
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    4 months ago

    Demos will also appear across Steam in various places, acting as if they’re a free game. So you can expect to see them in charts like New & Trending and across all the tags

    That sounds incredibly obnoxious.

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        4 months ago

        That would be good.

        I’m not complaining about them improving the platform or trying to make developers more willing to do demos. But I also don’t want demo spam clogging up my browsing in addition to all the free to play trash.

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    4 months ago

    I mean if it makes demos easier to find, then I’m all for it.

    I’m always down to try a game for free. I feel like I took that shit for granted when I was a kid.

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      Hopefully it also means they are more likely to stay up. During one of the next feats I downloaded a few demos to try later, but as soon as the fest ended I need to purchase to play some of them. I guess as the demo was just the main game, but set as a demo.

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        I hate that shit. The Paleo Pines demo is the first twelve days, which is about 3-6 hours of gameplay. You can save your game in the demo, and it’ll carry over to the full game.