• Nate Cox
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    1010 months ago

    Yeah I’m not sure where you’re getting this from. Digital “ownership” has always been a hot mess, because you purchase the right to play the game on the publishers terms.

    Ethically Steam should provide a refund, legally I can’t find any evidence that they are compelled to.

    • @NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      510 months ago

      They are not compelled to but Valve have generally been really good about providing refunds, even outside of the “contractual” window, if you point out there is a good reason.

      I got a refund for mordhau with like 30 hours in by just linking to the pc gamer (?) article about the rampant anti-semitism and racism and “I would rather not give money to literal nazis”.

    • @Sylvartas@lemmy.world
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      310 months ago

      They are compelled to by Australian and french laws. (There are probably more but iirc those are the 2 that were actually fought in court and cost Steam money before they added their official refund policy)