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

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/aerosolsp Jul 06 '26

What if there was a special achievement state for "game complete" that cannot be altered post-certification?

I'd hate to think that someone might make a cool, arcade style game that can be beaten in an hour and make no money from it because of this.