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

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Closing the early access loophole.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

If you paid for EA, that’s 100% on you and I don’t think a refund should be available at all (after the initial time limit, of course). You paid for an unfinished game and that’s exactly what you got. It literally doesn’t matter what the game releases as.

Yeah I mean I agree with that, but its also on the developer too to.. to just maybe finish the game before release? Like if a half finished product is what you made and what you release and you and your customers are cool with that, great. But thats not what EA is.

Idk yeah. Yeah I think that maybe you shouldn't be able to charge for early access. That would simplify the whole thing. I don't think gating it makes more sense.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Smaller devs can use EA to secure funding to complete the game. I'm not against it. Hell, some of my favorite games I played in EA and they were absolutely worth the money even unfinished. Most notably rust, 7 days to die, Valheim(!!!), rimworld... OK I like survival games.

Then we have whale milking factories like star citizen, but that's where due diligence comes in. Read reviews, watch gameplay, enter with realistic expectations and you won't be disappointed.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

absolutely worth the money even unfinished.

I completely agree with it in principal for supporting the smaller development teams.

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