Lol, most single-player campaigns end around that mark, but 90 minutes feels inadequate. 3 hours is fine by me.90 minutes is not good enough, 24 hours is all right.
Lol, most single-player campaigns end around that mark, but 90 minutes feels inadequate. 3 hours is fine by me.90 minutes is not good enough, 24 hours is all right.
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? Refund policy so far is a different thing not connected to this.Well it was 2 hours and now its 90 minutes.
Exactly.? Refund policy so far is a different thing not connected to this.
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Exactly.
90 mins without payment, when you buy you get 30 mins of play before your refund window closes.
From what I know Steam refunds go off of time played and a 14 day window. Why that would change is beyond me.Since when? I see zero proof.
As mentioned before its far more likely the 90min of free play time is just that, and when you own the game you will get the 120 for a refund.
Why? Because it would be PR suicide to do anything else.
That isnt to say they are being nice, I still think they are doing this because the transaction fees for refunding people is just a massive overhead. They did make it easy after all.
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From what I know Steam refunds go off of time played and a 14 day window.
Why that would change is beyond me.
So then refunds will be ok at 3 hours 30 now for those select games?Your right. Good thing it hasnt as of yet. It was tough at first, but I managed to read.
Steam Refunds
store.steampowered.com
The actual policy, and thus far it states purchased items. Which free trials are not.
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So then refunds will be ok at 3 hours 30 now for those select games?
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LMAO first post I thought you were joking but you're actually serious and explaining why.If the game is worth they will pay even if they already are done with it. Those 24 hours are worth just a day and if you want to play again, you will need to pay. Last 100 games That I played I dont remember one single game that I played and lasted less than 24 hours and I was done with it, those 24 hours would not be good for games that you can finish in 2 hours and offer nothing after that. You can check my steam library if you want, most games I bought lasted more than 100 hours at least, some are 1k hours or more. 24 hours free for AAA games is a must. 90 minutes is not good enough to see if a game is worth my money or not. My point is devs will focus on the 90 minutes and forget the rest of the game hehe because if they make a game good enough for 90 minutes they are sure you will pay for it ehhe, 24 hours is hard to cheat on. Actually in my opinion, all games should be free and if you like the work they did and want to support it, then you pay.
Oh shit... the caveat is of course they start the 90 minute timer when you start compiling shaders...Steam is a monopoly! Why are they doing such monopolistic stuff?
On a more relaxed note, you'd be hard pressed to have the control of a playable character in The Last of Us: Part One.
Some form of pre-load thing is bound to happen, yeahI only fear that this would cripple Steam's servers when extremely popular games are out, such as GTA 6. People would rush to download it to play their 1.5 hour free quota.
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*no longer automatic and must be fought for.2 hours and then refund iscut off.
Its quite possible the 90mins will take from the 120min refund period. If you try a game on a free weekend, buy it, then try to refund it without even launching it again you will not get an automatic refund (provided your playtime exceeds 120min - or perhaps a little more). You will have to plead your case and since there is no guarantee a human will even look at it (due to your playtime) you might be SoL. Of course, they might change this now with this new feature.As mentioned before its far more likely the 90min of free play time is just that, and when you own the game you will get the 120 for a refund.
Why? Because it would be PR suicide to do anything else.
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*no longer automatic and must be fought for.
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... thinking back to Detroit Become Human and its half hour of compiling shadersImagine if The Last of Us had this at launch and you had to wait 2 hours for shaders to compile.
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You get auto refunds even if you go over the 2hr/2week limit? (X) Doubtits still automatic for me. its prob not automatic for you because you used it too much.
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You get auto refunds even if you go over the 2hr/2week limit? (X) Doubt
I have refunded maybe a half dozen games in however many years its been offered (so 1 per year or so?), I dont think im on any abuse list for doing that!
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