I know that Steam Spy omits Free Weekend games because they can skew his charts, so I assume that means some people are doing it. I think I've done it once.
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STEAM | September 2015 - The Phantom Pre-Load or: AAA Movies Are Just +1s To Us
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I know that Steam Spy omits Free Weekend games because they can skew his charts, so I assume that means some people are doing it. I think I've done it once.
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TheAutomator
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Sometimes I wanna try out a game that piques my interest on my rig without having to pay for it.
I've used it a couple of times, and it's pretty neat I guess. I don't recall if I've bought a game due to a free weekend though.
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I'm up to chapter 40 so far.
It's disappointing that it's nothing but repeat missions with zomg hard mode
story ones
I didn't watch any trailer except the quiet reveal one, and it is as you said. A real shame what they did with the cutscenes.
Hopefully they'll give a positive response regarding that. I really hope they do.
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I've done free weekends a few times in the last few years (most recently with Killing Floor 2) but I can't think of a single one that made me actually want to buy the game to play it more. Most of the time I end up downloading whatever it is and playing it for an hour or less and finding out that it really isn't my type of game. Usually these are the types of games without demos, so I usually just treat it like a demo.
99% of the time they're multiplayer only, and there have been very few games in that genre that I enjoy anyway, so your mileage may vary.
I FW'd Chivalry once, that was fun.
The problem is I never see the free weekend thing until Sunday 3pm Eastern.
Oh Ozium...
derExperte
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I played through Dead Island Riptide that way and think I bought Killing Floor 1 after one.
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Of course people use the free weekend. I use it as a trial for games I might be interested in , it most likely drives sales too. I am done with COD but I try each one with the free weekend, stealth way of getting my fill for that game lol.
When was the last COD fw?
(I quit too but I can do a 48 hour hit every six months or two)
The only time I used it extensively was to play Sonic racing, and it totally sold me on the game (though to be honest we never played it add much again after that weekend and probably would have been content with just the free experience). I think it's the logical evolution of the demo. It's a shame it ruins steamspy stats, because I'd also be curious how much it helps sales, but one would think it helps more than just a sale. I can't imagine a free weekend with no associated sale would help much though.
I'd think so. At least for multiplayer-oriented titles, I'd say it's a very good way to hook new players on.
I doubt the efficiency of it on single-player focused games like Saints Row though, especially when the story mode can be completed in a day or two.
I remember using it on Saints Row 3. I played 10+ hours that weekend and ended up buying it because the game was dope. So it worked (once).
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5 masterpieces. Count 'em
Never used it either
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Free Weekends are great ways to test out multiplayer games with friends. I don't use it as much as I'd like because they end so early on Sunday.
February and May. They also opened up the Blops 3 beta for people who owned COD titles on Steam. Expect a Blops 3 FW when the first DLC pack releases.
February and May. They also opened up the Blops 3 beta for people who owned COD titles on Steam. Expect a Blops 3 FW when the first DLC pack releases.
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I will agree that MGS1-3 are the best of the MGS series, and while I dislike the Kojima worship which can go too far sometimes with some people, Kojima's a cool dude, a little more eccentric than he should be, but he's a cool dude.
I mean come on he gave us dedicated horse poop button
For Free Weekends with multiplayer games, often times I think it's less with getting new players (though obviously still a goal) and more just to get old players back by reminding them it's still around and now they can be good in comparison to those trying it for the first time.
Though I will say I was convinced to get Saints Row 4 due to it's free weekend.
Though I will say I was convinced to get Saints Row 4 due to it's free weekend.
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jshackles: Not really a bug, but something I noticed and I'm not sure if it's on your end or IsThereAnyDeal's end. Go to Ninja Blade's page. See that it has been in 1 bundle. Click through to IsThereAnyDeal to see which bundle it was in. See that it was only in a bundle as a DRM Free game, not as a Steam key. Does their API not expose that data the way the page does, or is it a case where you count it anyway because you figure that's the better default behaviour?
Ended up getting Killing Floor 2 because of the free weekend. Unlike most people I don't just buy anything that slightly interests me, so it was cool to try it out to see if I liked it.
Most stuff that has a free weekend doesn't interest me, but I assume it works, otherwise no one would do them.
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My 2nd most played game on Steam is Awesomenauts, with over 150 hours, and I only bought that because of a free weekend.
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The only thing exposed through the API in this case is the number of bundles the game has been featured in, and the relevant link back to isthereanydeal.com
This has happened a few other times (where a game isn't given a Steam key through a bundle, such as Bloons TD 5) and more recently with the uPlay bundles.
I think the value is still relevant, regardless of whether said bundle provided a Steam copy of the game. But I can also see where having that information would be useful.
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I'm on the same boat. When a game enter a free weekend does it get automatically added to your library or you have to do it manually? If it's the latter we can have an idea trough SteamSpy of how many people download a game during the free weekend.
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Quick Look: Blues & Bullets
Bought and started playing this myself a short while ago, first impression was solid, they're good at hiding the lower budget / less than stellar animations through the nicely stylized visuals. Can't say much about the story yet.
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"An error was encountered while processing your request:
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Please, for the love of god, someone tell me the region lock may probably lifted sometime before release.
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I mostly figured. I'm guessing that they don't use their own API to generate their site pages, thus when they changed the pages to indicate what kind of bundling it was, they never updated the API. Bummer. If they exposed it to you you could probably do various localized strings, like "Number of bundles game has been in: 4 (1 with Steam keys)" or whatever
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That's rather odd, why you never tried even games you are interested in?
I remember trying SR4, even if it was already on my wishlist and I probably would have bought it regardless, but free weekend sealed the deal.
I also tried Endless Legend and Endless Dungeon and decided against buying both games in their current state, so it's not like free weekend always helps sales, I would have probably already bought both if not that free weekend.
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I got a key but I don't understand, it's the full game? Will it remain when it goes out EA?
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The game will be F2P when it goes out of EA.
i guess, but i don't like that much eitherThis was still much better:
i like the low poly 3d stuff, it just really appeals to me cos it takes me back to ps1 era which i love so much
most ppl that asked me to play with them were pretty cool with being slow and stuff so i dunno if what u say is right but i'd feel pressured u know
well i played the first one and decided my characters were gonna have polar opposite personalities and disagree on everything so i kinda did
early on
later it was just kind of tiresome, so i stopped doing that
well coop is most of what i heard about divinity 2 so i duno..
well i'm not so much like that but i do read most books and take my time with a lot of stuff and zone off watching at textures and crap which has been known to aggravate people
so i dunno i'd rather not subject my friends to my horrible videogame personality
ehh i don't really agree, i didn't find it fun and ended up refunding it
the art and the silly story is kind of there but the controls and combat in general just didn't feel fun for me
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Short, simple and well done retro games. Really enjoyed them.
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