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

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

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