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"We've been told our games are too expensive in some countries but we've been using Steam's recommended pricing for a while. We trust Valve enough to not change this. If our games are still too expensive for you, you can pirate them until you have enough to support us."

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[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah it's a shame demos died out. Now studios (or publishers, more likely) just expect everyone to pay for a game they don't even know they'll like, and tough shit if you don't like it.

[-] yaminoEXE@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 year ago

A lot of indie games on steam still do demos actually but yeah shitty that AAA games don’t do them anymore.

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Huh, I haven't run into an indie with a demo recently, but it's definitely great to hear that demos are still a thing in the wider indie scene.

[-] yaminoEXE@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

During the many steam festivals, there will be indie games with demos.

[-] HidingCat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The last Steam Next Fest in June had so many demos, I only had time for like 4-5. There were quite a few posts and comments (including mine) on the demos we tried.

[-] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

They want people to buy before they know what is like so they don't have a chance to reconsider or regret it. This is why they hype preorders.

[-] Misconduct@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

But so many games still have demos? I feel like it's probably more that they're cheap and don't see a reason to pay whatever it costs to throw a demo together for free

[-] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Like people have been pointing out, it's usually indies which don't have an establish audience yet that do this. It's much rarer for triple A games.

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