Great change imo. The new & trending tab feels a lot more useful now that it isn’t 50% demos.

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    3 months 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.

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      3 months 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

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        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:

        Calling your free trial “definitive edition” and having the “base game” as a paid DLC is purposely misleading

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          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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            3 months ago

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

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              3 months ago

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