That shouldn't really affect anyone as we don't pre-order games anymore, right?
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2024
131 points (98.5% liked)
Games
16403 readers
1757 users here now
Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
Posts.
- News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
- Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
- No humor/memes etc..
- No affiliate links
- No advertising.
- No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
- No self promotion.
- No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
- No politics.
Comments.
- No personal attacks.
- Obey instance rules.
- No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
- Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.
My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
Other communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
A dude made a YouTube video to get all achievements for Skyrim within the 2 hour play time return window and actually got it
can you give me the link please...
Oh sorry! It was resident evil https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL17TP5SiYiz8aJg3YMoy0eSqe-qPMAMSk
owh okaay, all good dude.., interesting.. thank you so much
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://m.piped.video/playlist?list=PL17TP5SiYiz8aJg3YMoy0eSqe-qPMAMSk
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Sounds more like just closing a loophole.
This is not about early access, where you buy an unfinished game that may never be completed. Advanced Access is the fairly uncommon offering where buying some sort of special edition gives you access to the full, complete game a few days before official release.
Advanced Access is time spent with the finished, release-state game. There was no reason for this to have not been counted before.
I wish this wasn't like this. Games should not be allowed to be "early access" for years on end. There should be a realistic linitation, because so many games are EA and then abandoned.
It's not actually about Early Access. It's about Advanced Access -- when you pre-purchase a game and get to play it before the official release as a perk.
Early Access games (=games where the dev knows it isn't done and puts it in Early Access) already had the same refund limits as regular games.
This isn't early access, it's advanced access, like if a game has a deluxe edition that lets people play a few days before the official release.
More like delayed release. Pay more to find all the day 1 bugs!
I had no idea it wasn't counted towards the refund period previously.
Yeah. I think many didn't. It sounds like a clear loophole to me, and I don't think it's unfair to count that playtime towards the regular total.
Payday 3 worked fine for me before the full release overloaded the always online servers for weeks. It’s a funner game than payday 2 but always online is ridiculous. I don’t want developers to just get away with that in the future.
Playing a game for more than 2 hours doesn't mean you can't refund it anymore, it just means the refund isn't automatically accepted. If the quality suddenly drops on release day you can still request a refund.
Ah, sure. I never play online games so didn't really consider that. Still, it means the player takes a chance with advanced access. That's always the case, no? I know the industry treats it like a perk, but I'd argue that's on the industry and not Valve's policy.