Discovered this today at work, saw that a demo was available, go home, no more demo...

[Rens2Sea]

So i found out about this game from the reddit review thread, went to steam and saw there was a demo. Nice! But i was at work, so i figured i'll download the demo when i get home.
Now i'm home, the game is released and the demo is removed... wtf?

[Nico]

I don't know what the OP's work arrangements are, but by that same logic, you could also fire someone when they have a coffee break, or use some of their lunch time to go online.

As for the demo being removed, I don't see how it is "scummy". Nobody said every game needs to have an active demo at all times.

[G]

You had months to try out the demo.

[Newgel]

İlk olarak G tarafından gönderildi:

You had months to try out the demo.

he said he discovered this today you can't blame him for not hearing about the game beforehand

[G]

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İlk olarak G tarafından gönderildi:

You had months to try out the demo.

he said he discovered this today you can't blame him for not hearing about the game beforehand

Spare any money for some specs?

[Xuande]

And before the commonly mentioned demo, there was a period of time with an open Playtest (through Steam, not Discord/etc) that less than a few hundred of us joined, which was the full game as it existed at the time. That the developer slowly pared down functionality in the free versions to come made sense, I bought in mainly to reward that early generosity.

Unfortunate that you've only now noticed Balatro existing, but there's been many opportunities to test over the past ~9 months for free, some of which were basically the full game with no catch. To give that away now would harm sales, and I doubt the developer wants to spend significant time maintaining and bugtesting a limited and/or outdated demo build anymore.

[Melodia]

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but there's been many opportunities to test over the past ~9 months for free, some of which were basically the full game with no catch. To give that away now would harm sales,.

I think that's the big thing. Most demos it doesn't matter much, but many people have been spending 10s, some even 100s, of hours playing this thing. The demo was effectively a preview build released for free.