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Steam News : Refund Policy Update (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This seems fine? Is there an anticonsumer angle or something that I failed to notice?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Early access games can change drastically over the course of development. And can turn into a different game at release. I’m my opinion that’s still not a valid reason to get a refund if you put in many hours into the game already. As a consumer you should know that something like that can happen with a game that is still in development. You assume that risk.

[–] chalupapocalypse 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think this is more for "preorder pig fucker 6 and play a day early!" type of things, the refund timer probably didn't start until the game actually came out so you could play 24+4 hours before being denied a refund

[–] CleoTheWizard 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How dare you make this comment and not drop a link to the game. You must hate indie devs!

[–] felbane 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Honestly you're not missing anything. The Pig Fucker series peaked at PF3: Stuck Pig. Four and five were clearly low-effort cash grabs.

[–] reversedposterior 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with advanced access but I suppose the worry would be whether the game could be changed between then and the final release. If it can, then your play time might not represent the final product.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think that's the thing where if you pre-order the Collector's Edition or whatever, you get the game 3 days earlier than everybody else, but I could be wrong. If that's the case though... It seems like yeah why wouldn't it count toward your refund window?

It's hard to imagine the game changing much in that window... But maybe it matters for zero-day patches or something.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure that's exactly what this is and doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.