Comment on Steam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trending

• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  instead of doing a free and premium type of publishing like they do with phone apps

  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

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    :(
    Why tho

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Presumably for the free marketing of appearing in the free-to-play list

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This was more meant as a rhetoric question but it’s most likely as you said. A bit annoying indeed.

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  • Infinitus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s more than fine to have a demo, just call it a demo rather than tricking people into thinking it’s the full version for free!

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