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

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Shovelware 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.

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      2 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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        2 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