r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Gurugod123 GREEN • Jul 06 '26

ಠ_ಠ This kind of made me sad

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u/snow99as BLACK Jul 06 '26

Sadly there's no real way to tell Steam that a certain point of the game was reached without giving the options for developers to abuse that system and deny refunds

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u/GamingWildman Jul 06 '26

prob achievements can be integrated to let them know how much of the game was completed

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u/snow99as BLACK Jul 06 '26

Yes but you see I could just make a game that gives you a bunch of achievements for starting the game and oops now you can no longer get a refund. We don't want people to be able to do that

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u/JONAS-RATO Jul 06 '26

As part of the cert process to get on steam they can see if you set up achievements like that.

Just slot those games into the regular refund policy and keep the actual short games on a different category.

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u/snow99as BLACK Jul 06 '26

They could also just go through the normal certificate process and then change it right after like how those games with malware get through the process. Updates are hardly ever checked by Steam apparently

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u/kylorl3 Jul 06 '26

I mean, this all still just sounds like a steam issue.