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Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by BrikoX to c/gaming

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Closing the early access loophole.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not early access games but more AAA "Early access games", which means you preorder advanced edition you get to play like a week early. The biggest examples being Starfield and that new Star wars game by ubisoft (with the insane price of 130 for its super special edition). So this is just a logical loophole getting closed. We can have disagreements with the 2 hour refund window on steam but I don't think it was ever intentional for you to play 48 hours of a game then being able to refund the thing since its not official out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Aha the "Unlock Game Early Edition" trend, which is awful in itself. Makes it a slightly more niche loophole.

I quite like the spirit of the 2 hour no quibble refund policy. It does still have many problems, but being able to play for 48 hours and then refund no-questions-asked was for sure never intentional.