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  • Steam Next Fest is Live!

    From rms@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 25 08:29:31 2025
    https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

    and reddit has a thread with summaries and comments on the various demos available: https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1ix8mys/the_steam_next_fest_february_2025_edition_is_live/

    I know I'd immediately be paralyzed by the quantity of choices, so hopefully that, along with 5 second gameplay clips would help weed out ones you're uninterested in!

    rms

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  • From PW@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Feb 27 21:15:54 2025
    On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:29:31 -0700, "rms"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

    and reddit has a thread with summaries and comments on the various demos >available: >https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1ix8mys/the_steam_next_fest_february_2025_edition_is_live/

    I know I'd immediately be paralyzed by the quantity of choices, so hopefully >that, along with 5 second gameplay clips would help weed out ones you're >uninterested in!

    rms
    *--

    I don't get it. Am I supposed to preorder games I never heard of? I
    just went through some of the featured games.

    -pw

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Feb 28 06:10:03 2025
    PW <[email protected]> wrote at 04:15 this Friday (GMT):
    On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:29:31 -0700, "rms"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

    and reddit has a thread with summaries and comments on the various demos >>available: >>https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1ix8mys/the_steam_next_fest_february_2025_edition_is_live/

    I know I'd immediately be paralyzed by the quantity of choices, so hopefully >>that, along with 5 second gameplay clips would help weed out ones you're >>uninterested in!

    rms
    *--

    I don't get it. Am I supposed to preorder games I never heard of? I
    just went through some of the featured games.

    -pw


    To be fair, there are demos.
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From PW@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Feb 28 19:09:00 2025
    On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:19:31 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:29:31 -0700, "rms"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

    and reddit has a thread with summaries and comments on the various demos >>available: >>https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1ix8mys/the_steam_next_fest_february_2025_edition_is_live/

    I know I'd immediately be paralyzed by the quantity of choices, so hopefully >>that, along with 5 second gameplay clips would help weed out ones you're >>uninterested in!

    I don't really care for Steam's NextFests. They're mostly marketing
    gimmicks designed to hype up products before they're released. I
    prefer to wait for the games to actually come out so real opinions can
    be generated based on the games themselves rather than what the
    publishers are promising the game will be.

    Besides, with a library as large as mine, and so many free games being
    made available, I hardly need get hyped about what's coming out next;
    I've more than enough already to keep me busy. By the time I get to
    any of the games mentioned in NextFest, they'll be years old. ;-)


    *--

    These look like stupid games to me. I still don't understand what the
    purpose of this promotion is for:

    https://www.pcgamer.com/games/i-played-83-steam-next-fest-demos-and-these-are-my-top-5/

    -pw

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  • From Anssi Saari@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Mar 4 12:00:40 2025
    PW <[email protected]> writes:

    These look like stupid games to me. I still don't understand what the purpose of this promotion is for:

    Well, from the descriptions Skin Deep looks like fun. Enough that I'll
    try the demo one of these days.

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