Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day
Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day
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People abused the system and ruined all our fun.
“But I need gameplay footage before anyone else!”
“I need to show something for my review in progress!”
Look what you’ve done. Lol.
makes sense
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It makes sense for some games but not others. Total War, Civilizations, Cities Skylines, etc. all needed more than 2 hours. It was thanks for previous policy I was able to refund both Cities Skylines 2, Total War Pharaoh, and Kerbal Space Program 2.
2 hours is very restrictive and just forces the low hanging fruit of piracy to try before you buy. *shrug*
We’re back in 2005 boys.
Some game breaking events may not happen until more than two hours. I’ve certainly experienced this on a few occasions. Policy needs more wiggle room than that.
My bad gang. I do return lots of games cause they don’t catch my interest.
To note for people: The only change they’re making is the 2 hour time limit now starts from when you buy the game rather than when the game launches. This mostly just means now you can’t play a game for hundreds of hours in early access then refund it on launch.
Honestly, it’s kind of surprising it wasn’t already this way. This is *incredibly* abusable.
This the same news that already been posted but with a more click bait headline
If you live in Australia you can ignore this lol. Fuck Valve.
It just policy change to prevent repeat offender of abuser. I dont really have trouble refunding even if played more then 2 hours because i’m a reasonable person who dont abuse this feature.
Honestly, I thought this was already the rule. Didn’t know you could play for hundreds of hours in early access and still refund.
This is a tough one and I might say that I don’t like it because of the volatile nature of early access, but then I remember that most of the games I became dissatisfied with changes in changed AFTER they were launched and that every game is capable of acting like it’s in early access nowadays so eh. It makes sense.
The issue is I buy a game and sometimes don’t play it for days especially during sales.
That makes sense
No problems here. As the saying goes… you bought it, you either keep it or barter it.
2 house is not enough time to judge a game if it’s good.
You play games before launch?
*millers meme*
2 hours is still too short for so many things. There are game DLCs that take more than that to get to, and if you find you don’t like it then you’re sunk.
I do see the value of refunding an Early Access game that hasn’t reached Release after a long time.
7 Days to Die for example releases in June, let that sink in.
No problem for the “can i speedrun this game and get a refound” category right? I love those videos.
good, the 50 hour starfield speedrun refunds were bullshit.
Never knew the 2h mark started on the release. It really makes sense and considering the increasing amount of early access it was probably necessary as well.
Never knew the 2h mark started on the release. It really makes sense and considering the increasing amount of early access it was probably necessary as well.
TIL.
I thought it was already like this 😛