Great change imo. The new & trending tab feels a lot more useful now that it isn’t 50% demos.

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    3 months 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

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Presumably for the free marketing of appearing in the free-to-play list

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          This was more meant as a rhetoric question but it’s most likely as you said. A bit annoying indeed.

    • Infinitus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        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!