Pico Park: Classic Edition is accidentally free forever, and a great lesson in double checking Steam's weird rules

Good quality for us, astatine least

Everybody makes mistakes! That's life, really, a changeless bid of tiny mistakes that are sometimes bully ones, sometimes atrocious ones, occasionally purposeful, often not. Here's 1 that was precise overmuch not purposeful: Pico Park: Classic Edition, a delightful co-op puzzle platformery crippled you've astir decidedly seen a clump of Twitch streamers play during COVID lockdown, is present permanently free.

For immoderate context, Pico Park: Classic Edition released astir 10 full years agone successful 2016, and contempt the information that up to 10 radical tin play together, it was an offline lone game. In August, developer Tecopark said that they were reasoning of updating the crippled soon to adhd successful online support, an update that did successful information get successful September, and 1 that they thought they "might complaint a tiny interest for." Come September, the update is released, and online play is added, with plans to support it escaped for astir a week.

Except, Steam seemingly doesn't let you to power betwixt a crippled being paid-for and escaped an infinite fig of times, resulting successful this connection from Tecopark: "I was readying to power to a paid program aft updating the online support. but I forgot that erstwhile you power from paid to free, I tin ne'er spell backmost to paid! :) If you bask playing this escaped version, beryllium definite to effort the bid (Pico Park, Pico Park 2) too."

Welp! Truly seems similar there's not overmuch to beryllium done there, but the substance of information attack to the quality that the crippled is permanently escaped does tickle me. What other tin you bash successful a concern similar that? I uncertainty that Pico Park: Classic Edition was making each that overmuch for Tecopark successful immoderate case, peculiarly with Pico Park (2021) being arsenic fashionable arsenic it is.

If you're wondering, "why didn't they conscionable discount it to 100% off?" the reply is you can't! The maximum discount you tin acceptable connected Steam is 90% off. Don't inquire maine why, it's conscionable 1 of those weird Steam things that robs mostly inconsequential power from developers that merchandise games connected the platform.

In immoderate case, unless you're idiosyncratic who likes to support their Steam room arsenic thin arsenic imaginable (you're not amended than the remainder of us), it's a amusive small crippled to adhd to your room escaped of charge.