What do you think about overflowing "Prologues"?

[Pinocchia]

IMO they have became annoying enough.
There are already demo and EA, why an extra category? More like a harassing way to exist at the home page. A clickbait showing "Free game".
I myself would prefer ignoring them, let alone buying

[Start_Running]

Prologues != Demos
Prlogues != EA.
Learn the differences.

[miakisfan]

Originally posted by Pinocchia:

IMO they have became annoying enough.
There are already demo and EA, why an extra category? More like a harassing way to exist at the home page. A clickbait showing "Free game".
I myself would prefer ignoring them, let alone buying

Did you derail the topic into a EA hate topic somewhere in there?

Depends on what type of game it is. If it is a RPG that is usually expected IF the game calls for it.

Of course we could also be talking about the problem being the gamer and not the game (or the publisher in this particular case). We are living in the blame everyone else but yourself century.

[Crazy Tiger]

Buying? Prologues are free.

I have no issue with them.

[Pinocchia]

Originally posted by miakisfan:

Originally posted by Pinocchia:

IMO they have became annoying enough.
There are already demo and EA, why an extra category? More like a harassing way to exist at the home page. A clickbait showing "Free game".
I myself would prefer ignoring them, let alone buying

Did you derail the topic into a EA hate topic somewhere in there?

Depends on what type of game it is. If it is a RPG that is usually expected IF the game calls for it.

Of course we could also be talking about the problem being the gamer and not the game (or the publisher in this particular case). We are living in the blame everyone else but yourself century.

reply blaming op "derail"? interesting
if you enjoy this full of "free game" home page, okay then, good for you. enjoy being the soberest self-reflect sage in this century

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Buying? Prologues are free.

I have no issue with them.

This. They *are* free games.
Yeah, they are not Path of Exile or Warframe, but neither are 99 % of rest. For them clogging up the new releases, so what? Again 99 % of stuff releasing on the daily is stuff you are not interested in.

I don't know what people expect from free games that gets them triggered by free games with a paid follow-up.

[BOBTOMAS]

An alternative system to advertise games.
Question!
To publish a game, you need to pay a fee (100$) to Valve.
Does this fee have to be paid again for the full game!?
If yes. To publish a game, you spend twice as much in fees: maybe the Early Access system is better?

[wesnef]

It's just another way to do a demo. Presumably, the devs that do a "prologue" instead of a "demo", aren't excited by whatever particular rules/requirements Steam has for adding a 'demo' to your game (Whatever those are.) Or, it's easier to make a small standalone version of their game than it is to carve out a demo that links on the actual game's page.


Seems harmless, honestly. /shrug

[Volfogg]

Seems like just another dumb trend happening. Whatever. I'm not gonna play those anyway.

[Pierce Dalton]

That's just another word for demo, and honestly the more demos, the better. No need to refund a game if you don't like it, since you'll know that after playing the demo/prologue.

[Strawblaze]

I hate it long time. And it's not just a matter of ignoring their existence: they've taken over the Free to Play section even though just a small amount of them are actually similar to a free game and not just a Demo. Steam needs to address this and create a new category for them or just tell them to abandon this trend and go with the intended Demo implementation. I remember when browsing the F2P category regularly was a fun activity because you'd actually find free games and not just disguised demos.

Furthermore, this Prologue thing is indirectly abusing the Steam algorithm/workflow, affecting Curator pages and a lot more than some people may realise. When you add a Demo to an already existing store page, it's just like a free optional download. It may help the page's ranking (just like adding more languages and ticking other feature boxes do), but it doesn't set up a whole new scoring for it. Now, if you set it up as a separate game/store page, you get double the odds of it appearing on Discovery Queues, as well as the trivialization of options like the Ignore button, since ignoring it one time won't stop the other one from appearing for you in the future. There's no sugar-coating it: if the way Demos work right now feel insufficient in some way, that needs to be addressed so that the Free to Play category can be freed (pun unintended).

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by EFFE:

An alternative system to advertise games.
Question!
To publish a game, you need to pay a fee (100$) to Valve.
Does this fee have to be paid again for the full game!?
If yes. To publish a game, you spend twice as much in fees: maybe the Early Access system is better?

[/quote]
If you get a new APPID then yes.
And the idea of the prologue is to basically advertise, geive a tyaste of the game it precedes. And when you consider the options available, $100 is a very low prrice to pay for marketing and advertising.

Originally posted by Strawblaze:

I hate it long time. And it's not just a matter of ignoring their existence: they've taken over the Free to Play section even though just a small amount of them are actually similar to a free game and not just a Demo. Steam needs to address this and create a new category for them or just tell them to abandon this trend and go with the intended Demo implementation. I remember when browsing the F2P category regularly was a fun activity because you'd actually find Free games and not just disguised demos.

Why?
I mean they are free games after all.
Now granted. Valve could probably add a filter checkbox for searches to that effect.
They could add a lot of things to searches actualy. Search is woefully in need of some buffing.

[Xhoas]

Originally posted by Pinocchia:

IMO they have became annoying enough.
There are already demo and EA, why an extra category? More like a harassing way to exist at the home page. A clickbait showing "Free game".
I myself would prefer ignoring them, let alone buying

They should have stayed on itch.io or something. They are cluttering the popular new release section.

[lx]

i made this topic some time ago. sigh...
here is my free update demo:
"lxDictionary: prologue - not a computer game."