Steam is now apparently offering Timed Trials of Full Releases

dex3108 · May 15, 2023

View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1693980/Dead_Space/

Tnx Madjoki

MillionIII · May 15, 2023

Yeah better than refunding

Ganado · May 15, 2023

Up to 1 hours. 1:30 remaining.

Cool though

QisTopTier · May 15, 2023

good if true

Yibby · May 15, 2023

Yeah less overhead than buying and refunding after 2h

Saucycarpdog · May 15, 2023

Nice!

Steam stay winning on the customer accessibility front.

BassForever · May 15, 2023

Seems like a smart way to reduce the number of refund requests they get.

CutieYuri · May 15, 2023

I'm legit shocked it took this long for a feature like this to be implemented.

Overture · May 15, 2023

Huh... that's cool.

Mivey · May 15, 2023

Ganado said:
Up to 1 hours. 1:30 remaining.

Cool though

doesn't say "1 Earth hour", might refer to other celestial bodies

CutieYuri said:
I'm legit shocked it took this long for a feature like this to be implemented.

Shinobido Heart · May 15, 2023

Nice for smaller games! Don't think I'd download a 100GB+ title to try it for 1 hour.

Bishop89 · May 15, 2023

Yeh like PlayStation. It's pretty sweet

cw_sasuke · May 15, 2023

Makes sense with the quality of some new AAA releases as well as SteamDeck/OS compatibility issues.

MJForum Poster · May 15, 2023

Seems like its only Dead Space so far? Wonder if it's a way to combat the stutter reputation

Gero · May 15, 2023

What other games has this?

Santar · May 15, 2023

Huh, that's kinda cool. Would've preferred it to be some sort of standardized thing instead of just whenever the pub/devs decide it's okay, but I realize that with varying game lengths it would be very hard to do.

D O T · May 15, 2023

very cool indeed.

viral · May 15, 2023

This would probably get me to buy so many more games if it became the norm. Sure, buying and refunding is pretty much the same thing, and it's easy as hell, but this is just much more convenient.

Prelude · May 15, 2023

That's a good way to check the game's performance. Cool.

smocaine · May 15, 2023

That's awesome, great way to find out if a game will run on your system and if it's a good port.
Dead Space is a good example, given its performance and stutters.

Habs · May 15, 2023

Shinobido Heart said:
Nice for smaller games! Don't think I'd download a 100GB+ title to try it for 1 hour.

Next step: cloud gaming

Gray · May 15, 2023

Oh, very cool. Great way to try the performance of Dead Space specifically.

gabdeg · May 15, 2023

Give me this on Jedi Survivor so I can see ~~if it runs bad~~ if I can handle the way it runs.

Goddo Hando · May 15, 2023

Gray said:
Oh, very cool. Great way to try the performance of Dead Space specifically.

or performance for anything-- i don't have the best computer and free benchmarks would cause me to spend way more money on steam

Turnscr3w · May 15, 2023

Nice.

OhSatan · May 15, 2023

Habs said:
Next step: cloud gaming

I legit think GeForce killed it for Steam, we are never getting it for our games.

xir · May 15, 2023

wonder if dead space demo will go to consoles

RedHeat · May 15, 2023

is it for select games or all games?

yap · May 15, 2023

Habs said:
Next step: cloud gaming

Unironically a good idea. On Game Pass, using Cloud to try out the various 100 gb games before downloading is a great way to try it out.

Jerm · May 15, 2023

This is awesome

dex3108 · May 15, 2023

RedHeat said:
is it for select games or all games?

It's probably up to the publisher.

Tmespe · May 15, 2023

Bishop89 said:
Yeh like PlayStation. It's pretty sweet

Except for free.

red731 · May 15, 2023

xir said:
wonder if dead space demo will go to consoles

I would not call this "demo". Trial period of full game it is.

PlayBee · May 15, 2023

I guess the refund policy of "no questions asked if playtime < 2hrs" was already a free trial with extra steps so might as well offer this.

DevilPuncher · May 15, 2023

This and the refund policy are why Steam is my favorite marketplace in gaming bar none.

red731 · May 15, 2023

Also please name of the extensions showing the prices in browser?

xir · May 15, 2023

red731 said:
I would not call this "demo". Trial period of full game it is.

ok.

but ps+ has trials, not sure on xbox

dex3108 · May 15, 2023

red731 said:
Also please name of the extensions showing the prices in browser?

Augmented Steam

Free browser extension that improves browsing and shopping experience for Steam

augmentedsteam.com

rpm · May 15, 2023

red731 said:
Also please name of the extensions showing the prices in browser?

Augmented Steam.

Madjoki · May 15, 2023

Gero said:
What other games has this?

RedHeat said:
is it for select games or all games?

Dead Space is the only one.

You can search on SteamDB

https://steamdb.info/search/?a=sub_keynames&keyname=193&operator=3&keyvalue=

(ignore EA Play stuff)

red731 · May 15, 2023

dex3108 said:
Augmented Steam

Free browser extension that improves browsing and shopping experience for Steam

augmentedsteam.com

rpm said:
Augmented Steam.

Thank you

Mass Effect · May 15, 2023

This is great. Let's us test games for performance issues, which is desperately needed.

I'm assuming this is opt-in for publishers, so I hope more participate.

KrAzY · May 15, 2023

This is amazing! like seriously, now I can see if the game runs like shit or not

skullmuffins · May 15, 2023

will the trial count towards the 2hr refund limit or are they separate?

Digital0Reality · May 15, 2023

Tmespe said:
Except for free.

I agree that if PlayStation paywalls this feature; this is a very important distinction.

Bede-x · May 15, 2023

Bishop89 said:
Yeh like PlayStation. It's pretty sweet

It doesn't look like you have to pay a subscription to access these.

Zej · May 15, 2023

MillionIII said:
Yeah better than refunding

Yibby said:
Yeah less overhead than buying and refunding after 2h

For sure, but I'll try more things as a consumer because it's less hassle to me. Good move!

The Grizz · May 15, 2023

Does the 1 hour trial replace the 2 hour refund policy or does this stack? Just curious

Bishop89 · May 15, 2023

Tmespe said:
Except for free.

Bede-x said:
It doesn't look like you have to pay a subscription to access these.

Even better

headspawn · May 15, 2023

How would this work for non- DRM games?

Also would it count time you spend waiting for shader compilation? Does any of this time apply to refund period?

Cool idea though, especially for games coming in hot.

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