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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Steam Next Fest is Live!
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 08:02:11 -0800
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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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