Re: Steam Next Fest is Live!

On 2/28/2025 6:09 PM, PW wrote:

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:19:31 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:29:31 -0700, "rms"
<rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> 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/

The first of those looks interesting, but I probably wouldn't care for all the management.  The rest aren't my taste at all.
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