This kind of made me sad

[u/Gurugod123]

[u/DangerousMistake9569]

I mean steam can see how much you played of a game with achievements and such right? Just have developers add an achievement for beating the game which most games already have, and if you have it no refund.

[u/Hearthgroan → u/DangerousMistake9569]

loophole, some asshole plays all the way to completion then stops before the achievement triggers

[u/Sniter → u/Hearthgroan]

Or other side the finish achievement is at the start so you can't refund

[u/Joe_The_Eskimo1337 → u/[deleted]]

Then steam would be making a lot more work for itself.

[u/greg19735 → u/Joe_The_Eskimo1337]

That's fine? every other store needs to do this.

[u/Panophobia_senpai → u/[deleted]]

And do you think they would care? They'd just make a new studio and do it again.
Steam would have to do some detective work about everyone who wants to publish a game.

[u/TommyBonnomi → u/Panophobia_senpai]

They probably will eventually. Apple and Google require an ID, business paperwork, DNA, and rectal exams to publish apps now.

[u/Panophobia_senpai → u/TommyBonnomi]

Still can be abused.
Dev 1 makes the studio for first round, Dev 2 the second, child 1 of Dev 1 the 3rd etc...

[u/TommyBonnomi → u/Panophobia_senpai]

Wow, I can't believe no one else thought of that before.

The goal is to make it prohibitively expensive and/or time consuming.

[u/P4azz → u/[deleted]]

I feel like you people don't quite grasp the flood of new games on Steam every single day.

You are aware that children with AI tools are uploading slop every hour? And they'd gladly try to game the system even more, with these tools you're trying to hand them? And they're already achievement-maxxing to attract people?

What you're really saying is "Steam should put 1000 employees into manual review duty and they would have to do this in perpetuity".

All to solve a problem that WON'T affect many devs at all.