Submitted 2 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
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Great change imo. The new & trending tab feels a lot more useful now that it isn’t 50% demos.
This is why console demos are so rare anymore.
Try before you buy means fewer sales on launch day.
Informed consumers are careful with their money. And that’s bad. Apparently.
When your core gameplay loop is all of 15 minutes long that feeds into a 40-60 hour repetitive grind to unlock a slightly better item, new title or recolored cosmetic, combined with a complete absence of quality or competent writing, innovative mechanics while it’s apparent most of the budget went into marketing and pre-rendered cutscenes that can be just watched on youtube, yeah it’s bad to give potential customers a 30 minute demo that displays everything your game is without hinting any additional benefit for purchasing the full game.
bUt sTeAm iS mY gOd! hOw dArE yOu!!!
This is literally an example of why Steam gets praised as the only good game store. They make a change, users complain that part of the change sucks, and they listen to the feedback
Steam does provide a good product, no critique there. My point is the fact that they too are employing anti competitive measures and serve a billionaire. I wont stop criticizing that.
You should evaluate why you came to a barely populated thread, and made up a complete straw man to get upset over.
You’re manufacturing outrage for yourself. That’s not healthy.
Instead they decided to ignore your comment and rile up people in sibling comments…
What? Isn’t this a common W for steam? This seems like a good thing to me.
I was referring to the very vocal crowd that can not ever accept steam being criticized for dominating the market and serving its billionaire owner, however „less bad“ he is. There are no ethical billionaires.
It could be viewed as a measure to get free games away from the main focus so valve can make more money.
This would’ve been a useless comment even if it were relevant.
Whatever mate. I wont stop criticizing anti competitive companies, there billionaire owners and the crowd that worships them.
What?
The irony of someone who uses “AI” and spicy autocorrect to rank employees trying to complain about a company people love to work at.
Let me see if I got your statement right: you took the comment I made on another post to spare people having to click a link as me talking about myself?
In any case, steam does provide a good product but it also uses anti competitive measures to stay on top of the market and is owned by a billionaire. There are no ethical billionaires, sorry.
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To imagine there was a ;pmg time games didn’t offer enough demos anymore, and now we get so much that they need to be filtered 😂
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 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.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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.
TheLongPrice@lemmy.one 2 months ago
this is the best timeline