Steam Game Festival

[Therlun]

@espressojim

Why do demos expire after the fest is over? There’s about a dozen things I want to check out, and I have so little time this weekend. This isn’t helped by the fact that I live in the northeast of the US, and we’re having unseasonably warm weather out, and I’ll regret not going for a hike more than not playing a demo.

It’s the steam algorithm. Quoting myself:

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I’ve read developers say that Steam told them that a separate installer for a prologue is much better for visibility and the shop algorithm when the actual game releases. Which is also one of the reasons why Steam Next demos are time limited (the other being that they are often in an early state), I think the Vargus devs posted about it several times, a quick search got me this quote (answering a question about the disabled demo and prologue instead): "Hey, a demo on the main page has a nega…