39 points

Demos will also appear across Steam in various places, acting as if they’re a free game. So you can expect to see them in charts like New & Trending and across all the tags

That sounds incredibly obnoxious.

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9 points

They will probably add a check box for them like you can with nsfw games.

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That would be good.

I’m not complaining about them improving the platform or trying to make developers more willing to do demos. But I also don’t want demo spam clogging up my browsing in addition to all the free to play trash.

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Sweet! I like the idea of allowing for demos to have their own page instead of being part of the full/finished game page. Not sure if demos should have reviews. That seems kinda beside the point.

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I just want DLC to be shoved into their own container so I can never look at them cluttering the store.

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Oooh. Personally, I don’t mind that, but now that you mention it, yes, there totally ought to be search/queue options to let us hide demos.

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It’s just annoying when looking for a game, and getting pages of recommendations for the sims 4 dlc when I don’t even own the sims.

Advertising the post sales stuff prior to even buying the game isn’t very bright.

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If it’s an “early release” demo or something, like some games do with a limited time, partial access, demo? It should have its own reviews. When the game is fully released, I feel split. On the one hand, you’d be giving feedback for a small part of the game, but on the other you wouldn’t be seeing reviews about content not contained in the demo.

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isnt the point of demos to review those games before purchase?

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Demos should have reviews, of the full game.

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I mean if it makes demos easier to find, then I’m all for it.

I’m always down to try a game for free. I feel like I took that shit for granted when I was a kid.

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Hopefully it also means they are more likely to stay up. During one of the next feats I downloaded a few demos to try later, but as soon as the fest ended I need to purchase to play some of them. I guess as the demo was just the main game, but set as a demo.

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I hate that shit. The Paleo Pines demo is the first twelve days, which is about 3-6 hours of gameplay. You can save your game in the demo, and it’ll carry over to the full game.

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