[Steam] Free Weekend: Battlefield 2042 : to Mon 2022-Dec-5th

Well, it is a free game, just for a limited time.

That's incorrect, actually. It's a free access, not a free game. The nature of what is free is absolutely important, you can't just change the framing like you're doing. I absolutely assure you the distinction is an important one, within anything from common conceptions to legal perspectives.

A free tour of a house is not a free house, for example, and a demo isn't a free game (to be clear, the actual concepts being related are "game ownership" [as much as we have such, in a post-digital-licensing environment] vs "partial game access", and "free game" is exclusively utilized to refer to ownership, hence the disconnect between your phrasing and reality. Again, the store example is a good one, in that you're having the same experience, just from fundamentally and dynamically different perspectives.)

Effectively, you're not taking the actual content and then relating it to words, but rather taking the words you've been presented and trying to conform the situation to those words. That sort of backwards justification never really works out in a supportable way.

So, again: A demo is not a game. As I noted in my other post, you can definitely have a different valuation on Free Weekend than is typical of SG's other users (or at least, those who have weighed in on such matters previously). And there's no issue (broad spectrum, individual perspectives will always clash) in posting them in general. Just please acknowledge what it is you are actually promoting. And that is demo access.

..And by my opinion it's not even a good demo access, because short time contraints based in an arbitrary time frame for demo access is an approach which is pure bullshit (it's flat out devaluing your time and trying to force you to sacrifice your schedule to fit into their timeframe, all for a frustratingly stressed experience) and, in my opinion, shouldn't be encouraged in general.

But again, that's up to subjective interpretation. This being a deal, however, is not, certainly not while the site gives other avenues of presentation for the content. If you strongly disagree, then you have the option to maintain a singular "Active Free Weekend offers" Deals thread. That fits within the community's expectations and doesn't hinder the functioning of the Deals forum. It'll help those with a similar mindset on the matter as yourself, while still being respectful to every one else.

Conversely, it'd be much appreciated if you didn't have three active threads for questionable offers in the Deals thread at once, at least while multiple suitable alternative approaches exist. I've missed so many awesome Deals just because I didn't have the time to look closer at the Deals forum, and thereby didn't realize I needed to set aside additional time for an actual Deal, all due to unnecessary Deals clutter. It's a bit frustrating, honestly. :S

TL;DR version: See my other post's TL;DR.