DarthMol
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Game Sessions is a company and platform that is trying to bring back game demos in a certain manner.
So it's basically a time limited trial of the full game, much the same as the trials that Origin offers. Unlike a Steam "free weekend" the time limit applies to game time, although it's not nearly as generous as a whole 2 days. Although they do occasionally have a promo where a Humble sponsored game gives you "week's" playtime (20+ hrs gametime) on a certain game.
They currently have a promotion where if you download Ryse: Son of Rome on their client and play it for 5 minutes you get to keep the game for free and play it as much as you like (on their client). If you want to get it on Steam you can buy it with their discount link and your progress is transferred to the Steam version.
My Experience So Far
I decided to give Game Sessions a try and grab Ryse for the free promo. I downloaded the client file and ran it only to have Avast! quarantine and send it off to them to be verified. A red flag was raised and I did some checking on how legit these guys are. After a bit of checking it seems they are legit, they've been around for a few years actually. The Avast report came back clear, despite it still picking up the client as a false positive.
After finally getting the download going it seemed to go at the same max speed that my line can handle (2, 4MBs per second which I worked out by seeing the downloaded amount go up since it doesn't actually show the speed). The full download was 25,7GB which is the size on disk and the same on the Steam version. So I'm not sure about their fancy compression claims.
Running the game begins with a skippable Game Sessions advert, thereafter it goes into the game proper. I didn't play my 5 minutes then and quit, which brought up a list of options asking me why I had quit so soon, with response choices such as: "I don't have time to play now", "I'm adjusting settings", "I wasn't running properly" or "The game crashed". I thought this was quite a clever touch.
So it's basically a time limited trial of the full game, much the same as the trials that Origin offers. Unlike a Steam "free weekend" the time limit applies to game time, although it's not nearly as generous as a whole 2 days. Although they do occasionally have a promo where a Humble sponsored game gives you "week's" playtime (20+ hrs gametime) on a certain game.
They currently have a promotion where if you download Ryse: Son of Rome on their client and play it for 5 minutes you get to keep the game for free and play it as much as you like (on their client). If you want to get it on Steam you can buy it with their discount link and your progress is transferred to the Steam version.
My Experience So Far
I decided to give Game Sessions a try and grab Ryse for the free promo. I downloaded the client file and ran it only to have Avast! quarantine and send it off to them to be verified. A red flag was raised and I did some checking on how legit these guys are. After a bit of checking it seems they are legit, they've been around for a few years actually. The Avast report came back clear, despite it still picking up the client as a false positive.
After finally getting the download going it seemed to go at the same max speed that my line can handle (2, 4MBs per second which I worked out by seeing the downloaded amount go up since it doesn't actually show the speed). The full download was 25,7GB which is the size on disk and the same on the Steam version. So I'm not sure about their fancy compression claims.
Running the game begins with a skippable Game Sessions advert, thereafter it goes into the game proper. I didn't play my 5 minutes then and quit, which brought up a list of options asking me why I had quit so soon, with response choices such as: "I don't have time to play now", "I'm adjusting settings", "I wasn't running properly" or "The game crashed". I thought this was quite a clever touch.
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