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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

For now, for players browsing the thousands of Next Fest demos, finding genuine, hand-crafted games has become an exhausting chore. On the other hand, indie devs are afraid of AI-generated copycat games and some go as far as pulling out of Steam Next Fest to avoid getting their game stolen.

Any small game developer would have to be a fool to use Next Fest as is. This is awful.