Valve have overhauled the way game demos work on Steam in some big ways, and it sounds like a really good thing for both developers and players.
  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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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.

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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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.

  • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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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.

    • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
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      4 months ago

      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.

      • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        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.

  • memfree@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    Sweet! I like the idea of allowing for demos to have their own page instead of being part of the full/finished game page. Not sure if demos should have reviews. That seems kinda beside the point.

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      I just want DLC to be shoved into their own container so I can never look at them cluttering the store.

      • memfree@beehaw.org
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        4 months ago

        Oooh. Personally, I don’t mind that, but now that you mention it, yes, there totally ought to be search/queue options to let us hide demos.

        • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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          4 months ago

          It’s just annoying when looking for a game, and getting pages of recommendations for the sims 4 dlc when I don’t even own the sims.

          Advertising the post sales stuff prior to even buying the game isn’t very bright.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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      4 months ago

      If it’s an “early release” demo or something, like some games do with a limited time, partial access, demo? It should have its own reviews. When the game is fully released, I feel split. On the one hand, you’d be giving feedback for a small part of the game, but on the other you wouldn’t be seeing reviews about content not contained in the demo.