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 4 weeks agoinstead 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:
Calling your free trial “definitive edition” and having the “base game” as a paid DLC is purposely misleading
Infinitus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
smeg@feddit.uk 4 weeks 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!
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
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Why tho
smeg@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Presumably for the free marketing of appearing in the free-to-play list
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
This was more meant as a rhetoric question but it’s most likely as you said. A bit annoying indeed.