Are you bothered by free "prologues" on Steam?

I don't mind prologues, but I'd like them to be far more clear that they're small chunks of another game, and, as someone pointed out, it's often really not clear.

i wish Steam had different sections for demos and prologues because not all of them are labelled as so

I feel it's not so black and white. It's giving exposure to products giving more money to valve, yes, but it also gives more recognition and funding to smaller indie studios for future projects and maintaining their games with patches and content & whatnot. While I agree that they should have their own category and Valve could be a little more forthcoming about things, I could live with them being in the "fake f2p" category due to the fact that some games truly do deserve that recognition or feedback to allow the studio to improve the game, build upon it or take all that money and create a new game :) With that being said I did think at the time that Stoneshard was just an f2p story title and teenager me got really annoyed when I found out it's a "glorified demo" as you put it XD

YES!

It suckers you in to something that already has a name..... a DEMO!

A DEMO~nstration of the game they'd like you to buy.

Classically this will let you play the opening sequence of a game, or cap you at a certain level. So i feel that i'd prefer prologue style demo's

But i'm just sick of bait and switch tactics on EVERYTHING!... Look this thing is on sale!(not really, they just marked it down this week to clear out stock before raising the price, and/or offering the exact same product, just less of it.

I just wanted to add one thing more: dont blame the devs.
Like gabe once said that piracy was a service problem, so is this.
Demos right now have a very hidden dedicated section... if demos showed up on the front page in some way (not too hidden) things wouldnt had come to that.

somewhere near new releases- not a tab but another such list bellow or one of those single row bigger thumbs above with a button straight to demos section would do wonders

Funny coincidence... Just opened Steam this morning, and there's a new announcement about promoting Demos better.

So maybe we'll see less dishonest demo promotion in the future, and the era of prologues will come to an end.

they are demos and some sort of beta access to the game, the reviews are equivalent to a beta test experience report
free testing?