simple@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days agoSteam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trendingfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1571arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1567arrow-down1imageSteam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trendingfiles.catbox.moesimple@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square63fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·27 days 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
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoPresumably for the free marketing of appearing in the free-to-play list
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days agoThis was more meant as a rhetoric question but it’s most likely as you said. A bit annoying indeed.
minus-squareInfinitus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoI 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.
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoIt’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!
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
:(
Why tho
Presumably for the free marketing of appearing in the free-to-play list
This was more meant as a rhetoric question but it’s most likely as you said. A bit annoying indeed.
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.
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!