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Steam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trending
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Great change imo. The new & trending tab feels a lot more useful now that it isn't 50% demos.
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
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
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!
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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.