How does the 'first level is free, pay if you want the rest' model hold up today? I recall when the original Doom came out. Everything, including network play (maybe not the BFG) was available to try. We were all playing pvp on the university LAN on the free version.

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It died because to make games fit on discs/media they need to be compact making it very hard to ship a limited version without shipping all content. Back in the days generally all the "try before you buy" games shipped the full content leading to cracks that simply unlocked it.

Today a company that doesn't have a hard-on for DRM could of course run with the model and just chalk up piracy to advertisment and people that wouldn't buy the game anyway. Kinda like any company selling on GOG.

Of course those are the minority, most companies want / need DRM in some form and the model just works against it. It might be possible to make it work with something like Denuvo but I doubt anyone would be happy about that.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Demos are wide spread these days. There's a ton of them for a wide range of games available on steam and the switch store. They've made a big comeback the past few years.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Helped by Steam having regular demo centered events. Which are awesome!

[–] supercritical@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Heck, I just played the demo for Octopath Traveler 2, but this was a self-published demo by the studio. It was enough for me to know this game wasn't for me but I'm thankful I didn't have to buy it and refund it as a result.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Same. But I also played the triangle strategy demo and definitely want to get that eventually, which I wasn't going to do because of Octopath.

Long live the demo

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stupid question, is the link an activity pub instance? It says instance, but I'm not sure of what it hooks up to. (I'm not techy)

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's an instance of Invidious, which does not use ActivityPub. Invidious is software you can host to portal to YouTube while preventing most of google's ability to track and advertise.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for explaining, I thought it was a great setup for an activitypub type of vlogging, lol.

[–] ghjsh8@lemy.lol 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just in case you didn't know, there's PeerTube, an ActivityPub-compatible software for video sharing ;-)

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Thanks for that, I didn't put vlogging and peertube together. I'm not sure why, that's kind of stupid on my part.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 9 months ago

I'd rather have a youtube link and people who want to use invidious can have a browser extension to redirect it.

[–] regdog@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Good video, but the text in the OP is terrible

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.