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steam has a lockdown on checking out games at just the demo stage, because releasing your itch page early is a self-own. there needs to be a reason for devs to launch itch pages ahead of time, which w
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steam has a lockdown on checking out games at just the demo stage, because releasing your itch page early is a self-own. there needs to be a reason for devs to launch itch pages ahead of time, which would in turn allow itch to show off demos in the same way that steam does with next fest
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- Bluesky ↗ · first seen 2026-06-16 00:34 UTC
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