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Two indie Steam games were disguised as Helldivers 2 to scam players (www.videogameschronicle.com)

submitted 9 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Bananobanza@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why even try this? You can refund games within two hours of gametime or two weeks from purchase date. The moment someone launches the game, it's immediatley obvious that it's not Helldivers and smashes that refund button.

[-] MD756@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

If a kid’s got their parent’s credit card, I doubt they will bother with requesting a refund. They’ll just smash other ‘buy’ buttons until the game they want is downloaded. I’m sure some adults are like this, too…

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's going to get reported and found by Steam pretty quickly. Steam already holds onto the money from sales for 2 weeks in case they need to issue a refund. Once they discover the scam, which will take less than a week, they won't hand over any of the money.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And in a case like this, I think steam would refund everyone who made a purchase regardless of if they requested it

[-] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

There's probably a decent number of people that buy a game and don't install it immediately. I often do this when something is on sale. By the time they realize they didn't get what they were after, it may be outside the refund window.