Arkane: Steam Refunds = PC Prey Demo [May 03, 2017, 08:46 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
In
an interview on AusGamers, Arkane's Raph Colantonio discusses the imminent
release of Prey, the sci-fi shooter remake (thanks
DSOGaming). One hot topic that comes up is how console owners have a demo
of the game to sample, while PC gamers do not. Though this does not sound like
Valve's take on the topic, he says they feel Steam's refund policy is the
equivalent of a PC demo:
"It's just a resource assignment thing. We couldn't do a demo on both the console and on the PC, we had to choose. And besides, PC has Steam. Steam players can just return the game [prior to playing] 2 hours so it's like a demo already. I also want to clarify that there's no PC port. I keep on hearing 'oh they're going to screw up the PC port' there is no PC port. We do the game on PC. It's a PC game. It's a different engine to Dishonored as well. So we might have our own sets of problems, but we are of course very careful because of what happened with Dishonored 2. So we wanted to make sure the PC version of Prey is good."
gilly775 wrote on May 3, 2017, 14:49:
So those of us that have bandwidth caps get f'd in the end by not having a demo which could be less to download. Ooook. Here's a game I won't be buying then....
Well, in their defense, no one does a demo nowadays. They didn't take anything away from PC gamers and gave something to console gamers. It's not new content or anything, just a demo. I find it hard to complain.
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