Reviews For Demos

[prof_westman]

After playing a demo, I wanted to write a review, mainly as a way to show the developers my opinion and express what I felt were strengths and some weaknesses that if addressed could elevate the whole game. (I realize that my opinion might not be something they want to hear, and I can see how the opinions of people who have invested in the game are more important)

Side question: Is it possible for people who buy a game and refund it possible to submit a review of a game?

It could be valuable for the developers and other players of game demos to be able share feedback. Is this a policy that might change? How about enabling reviews from people who have played?

A demo is the software many users will see before deciding to buy a product or not.
It seems that feedback on that experience might even be as important as a full game review.

[Start_Running]

Demos are not sold and are freely available so there is no need to review them.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by prof_westman:

A demo is the software many users will see before deciding to buy a product or not.

If demos actually did sell games, we'd see a lot more of them.

[Wolfpig]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Originally posted by prof_westman:

A demo is the software many users will see before deciding to buy a product or not.

If demos actually did sell games, we'd see a lot more of them.

A lot of companys dont do demos as it is a lot easier these days (compared to 20 years ago) to get infos about a game.

@ Topic.
Reviews for demos would be a bad idea, as demos not necessarily cover the state of the final product.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by prof_westman:

After playing a demo, I wanted to write a review, mainly as a way to show the developers my opinion and express what I felt were strengths and some weaknesses that if addressed could elevate the whole game

Demo's typically aren't reflective of the final product and are usually available on the same store page of the main game so there would be no ideal place for the reviews to sit.

If a developer requires feedback, they may seek it in a beta which usually has its own store page where reviews can be submitted or they just get it from paying customers who bought the main game.

Originally posted by prof_westman:

Side question: Is it possible for people who buy a game and refund it possible to submit a review of a game?

Yes.

[prof_westman]

I see that reviews for demos might contradict reviews for a full game, but I think both are valuable. Reviews for demos could be marked as such, and even if they were to viewed separately form other reviews, they should be visible somewhere.

[DarkStarKnight]

Demo Reviews will not be a thing, cause as others have said, what the demo has, may not be in the final product, so reviewing a demo is not valuable as anything within the demo can change

[prof_westman]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Originally posted by prof_westman:

Side question: Is it possible for people who buy a game and refund it possible to submit a review of a game?

Yes.

Thanks for the side question answer. If people who have used the software they purchased and are somehow unsatisfied and want their money back, can write publicly visible feedback, then I think that people who have experienced a demo should also be able to.

[prof_westman]

Originally posted by DarkStarKnight:

Demo Reviews will not be a thing, cause as others have said, what the demo has, may not be in the final product, so reviewing a demo is not valuable as anything within the demo can change

These days with updates rolling out all the time, the software you can download at the present moment will potentially change.

Reviews for demos can be marked as such, identified separately from other reviews. This could be done on the page of the demo, which is separate to the page the game on the store. Another way to implement "separate" reviews could be to add a "demo" tag, like the ones we can already select and filter, like "positive", "negative", "recent", etc....

[Indigo Studios]

Recently, Steam introduced the option to create individual store pages for demos, where users can also leave reviews. For example:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3232990/Portrait_of_a_Torn__Demo/

It will be interesting to see how these reviews impact the demo’s visibility and overall performance. However, as a way for players to share their feedback with developers, it’s a great system.

[Connie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.