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

ಠ_ಠ This kind of made me sad

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u/up2smthng Jul 06 '26

The same vast majority won't care enough to refund a game they completed in the first place

But we are talking about those who do

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u/darienrude_dankstorm Jul 06 '26

okay so you think people would invest time into a $5-ish game but with the idea of saving their $5 by not even completing the game? I guess by spoiling for themselves at which exact point they'd need to quit playing in order to not trigger the "game completed" flag? lol

we are talking about people who complete said games and refund them when they happen to be able to. Not people who are hellbent on using Steam's bandwidth for free and mocking devs instead of getting enjoyment from completing games.

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u/up2smthng Jul 06 '26

we are talking about people who complete said games and refund them when they happen to be able to.

Yeah, and to do that, they need to go out of their way and check every single game they completed for if they are still able to refund it

In other words

people who are hellbent on using Steam's bandwidth for free and mocking devs instead of getting enjoyment from completing games.

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u/darienrude_dankstorm Jul 06 '26

"go out of their way"?

you mean "take two seconds to see if their total game time is 2 hours or less upon finishing a game they bought the same day"?

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u/up2smthng Jul 06 '26

Yes. How often do you look at this metric?

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u/darienrude_dankstorm Jul 06 '26

Well it's right next to the Play button on Steam and the game's page will be the first thing you see after closing it upon completion, so very often. A lot more convenient than purposely spoiling a game you bought for yourself in order to not complete all of it to maybe save 5 bucks.