I am talking to you, Blizzard (MWIII)

  • SootySootySoot [any]
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    1 year ago

    I remember when virtually every single game allowed you to play a 'Demo' for free, so you could find out exactly what the gameplay is like in any game before playing it. They often came in my cereal boxes as a kid, or free to pick up at the checkout. I still have a cool CD from the 2000s which has like five big studio name Demos in one.

    Now that's Pepperidge Farm Remembers. Or did I out myself as too old?

      • SootySootySoot [any]
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        1 year ago

        Steam Next Fest

        Demos still exist, sure. Just not anywhere to the scale and pervasiveness that they used to. Nor do they come in cereal boxes.

  • fidodo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It used to be called early access. At least it wasn't a misleading term.

    • sciawp@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Nah, ‘open beta’ was the term for a long time; early access is a newer thing.

      • fidodo@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I think you're misunderstanding what I mean. Early Access is a newer term for getting paid access to a game early. Open beta is an older term but was used for free access to a game early for testing purposes. They used to have different meanings which is why early access was created as a new term to distinguish it from a beta. Calling paid early access a beta is intentionally misleading.

        • sciawp@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Alright, thanks for the clarification! Honestly, I think both terms are misused all the time and I have just stopped caring about it.

  • DrQuint@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The only games I played in early anything were Slay the Spire, Hades and Against the Storm.

    I never wagered on shit.