I am not sure what demos you mention in particular but the one I recently played is news tower and I am hooked. Just waiting for a good sale to snag the game and even stopped posting the demo mid way. I for one appreciate all the demos being put out even if it is short. Their only purpose is to showcase the full game and they do a decent job of that.
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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks agoShovelware demos are useless.
I remember the time I played the demo for farming sim and DOA:Dimensions to death on my 3DS. Those were actually good demos.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I nevr said demos for actual decent games are baf. Just that trash games and asset swap games are and polluting the search results and library.
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah it doesn’t compare to old-school demos like stuff that came on discs with magazines, but at least it’s a lot better getting the option to try something instead of buying and refunding everything. And at least some bigger studios and indi games are picking up on this as well.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
For sure. But I hope they use the Steam Demo feature (same game page with a demo install button) instead of doing a free and premium type of publishing like they do with phone apps
smeg@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
It’s not just phone apps, look at this shit on a big-name Steam game:
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Calling your free trial “definitive edition” and having the “base game” as a paid DLC is purposely misleading
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
:(
Why tho
Infinitus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I mean… Aoe3 always had some sort of a demo version. Even the original base game had it. In fact, this is actually better, as now you are able to use 3 rotating civs, not just the English and the French, which you were forced to use before.