Why take down the demo?

[chocolatecake5000]

I was gonna play the game today (I'm missing stars on 3 of the tarots) and I saw the play button turned into a purchase button. I got excited because I thought the game was out but it just went to the steam store page. I found out the demo was taken down through the dev's annoucement but I wish those of us who had it already downloaded could keep playing. I am having a lot of fun with the game and it's a day 1 buy for me so I don't see why you'd take down the demo.

[Melodia]

Originally posted by chocolatecake5000:

it's a day 1 buy for me so I don't see why you'd take down the demo.

I mean, why do you need a demo if you're going to buy it?

[chocolatecake5000]

I want to play it now tho. Also I had 95% tarot completion.

[Melodia]

Yeah but it's still a demo. It's meant to serve as a way to get a feel for the game, not as a game itself. The fact this game has had such huge success with people treating the demo as if it were a full fledged game is fantastic for the devs, but in the end a demo isn't meant for that.

[Bilgot the Heartless]

Originally posted by Melodia:

Yeah but it's still a demo. It's meant to serve as a way to get a feel for the game, not as a game itself. The fact this game has had such huge success with people treating the demo as if it were a full fledged game is fantastic for the devs, but in the end a demo isn't meant for that.

Demo is meant to be played to check if it is worth to buy full product for someone. It isn't really demo if you remove it and won't give back after release. It is more like open beta with limited content to get a feedback.

[Melodia]

I mean, I'm not saying the demo should be removed. I hate it when demos are a limited time.

But I also don't think "because people who were playing it still want to play it" is a valid reason to keep it up. It's not an F2P game. It's not a free game. If you liked it enough that you keep wanting to play, then the demo did its job and it, theoretically, has no relevance to you any more as a demo.

[Ersatz]

Originally posted by Melodia:

I mean, I'm not saying the demo should be removed. I hate it when demos are a limited time.

But I also don't think "because people who were playing it still want to play it" is a valid reason to keep it up. It's not an F2P game. It's not a free game. If you liked it enough that you keep wanting to play, then the demo did its job and it, theoretically, has no relevance to you any more as a demo.

I get that the very generous demo got taken down, that's fine, I will definitely be buying it. I just think it would have been better to remove the Demo alongside a release announcement or something like that.

[Melodia]

Originally posted by Ersatz:

I just think it would have been better to remove the Demo alongside a release announcement or something like that.

Oh absolutely,

[Ersatz]

Still buying it, obviously.

[Ronald Brain]

Originally posted by chocolatecake5000:

I was gonna play the game today (I'm missing stars on 3 of the tarots) and I saw the play button turned into a purchase button. I got excited because I thought the game was out but it just went to the steam store page. I found out the demo was taken down through the dev's annoucement but I wish those of us who had it already downloaded could keep playing. I am having a lot of fun with the game and it's a day 1 buy for me so I don't see why you'd take down the demo.

Apparently the devs plan to release another demo this February. I'm not sure why they still insisting on not putting it on sale given that it's already a complete game, but probably advanced features are still being developed and they're still trying to patch some major bugs (Like the White Whale glitch that renders duplication Joker useless).

[baconcow]

It's not going on sale because it isn't a completed game. Still, it could go on Early Access.

[WeeabooJudas]

The demo was my 3rd most played game in 2023, now there's a big space on my year in review.

[butterdog]

I won't go into explicit detail because the devs clearly removed the demo for a reason, but there is a simple way to continue playing any demos which are removed providing you have them downloaded already. Some you can just find the executable and start it directly, i.e. without going via Steam, but this demo is a little bit more complicated.

EDIT: no more details, the reason is in the first sentence.

[CosmicZJ]

Originally posted by butterdog:

I won't go into explicit detail because the devs clearly removed the demo for a reason, but there is a simple way to continue playing any demos which are removed providing you have them downloaded already. Some you can just find the executable and start it directly, i.e. without going via Steam, but this demo is a little bit more complicated.

Tell me more?

[KettouRyuujin]

I heard a new demo is dropping on the 25th, actually.

[Spraypainsos]

Yeah devs said new demo build 25th (or maybe 26th), so it's worth losing the old demo for a short bit.