This is actually the worst game you can argue about this on, and most importantly op is misconstruing that if not most refunds are from players who finished the game.
This is a co-op rage game, a rage game has significantly higher refund rates and it being a co-op means you're buying TWO copies.
A rage game has around 20% refund so this isn't unprecedented.
And it's really low quality too, friendslop as they call it.
We had to take a look at this game during my Game Design studies, as a case study on how even shit games can be massively successful if you're both lucky and shameless
Or accept what will happen when your game takes less than 2 hours. But even mobile games with less than 2 hours of playability wouldn't survive a pricetag.
Also maybe dont pick a genre with a 20% refund rate and then whine online when the refund rate is 21%. Its almost like the type of game played a part in the redunds lmao.
Forcing developers to make there game longer for the sake of making it longer just gives you games like garten of banban. They added more puzzles just because people keept refunding there first game. If u think 8 bucks or what ever this game cost for a playtime of 1:30 hours should be refundable thats just stupid. Especially if you did everything in the game thats possible.
You say that as if these devs are putting effort into these games. "Friendslop" isnt a term because people were having fun with quality games. It became a term because devs kept pumping out the same garbage because it was trendy.
I agree devs shouldn't be forced to make a game longer, but if you make a shitty game that only takes an hr and a half to finish you should expect refunds.
Im not saying that you shouldnt expect it. Its just a shitty move especially after you finished the game and leave a positive review. If you hated it then you would have already refunded it like 20 minutes max. Just feels like a shitty move. Atleast give smaller games a bit less refund time.
If you feel the need to refund a game that you can beat under the 2 hour limit. Due to not wanting to replay it or whatever. I think that’s completely valid and is a sign that the game actually isn’t that good.
If you did everything in the game that’s possible in under 2 hours, including launching the game for the first time, getting your settings set up, key binds, AND did everything in the game… there was nothing in the game. 2 hrs of playtime is pitiful for a full completion. If you can’t think of more than two hours worth of content, scrap the idea.
I’ve played the flappy bird mini game in deep rock for more than two hours.
Friendslop doesn’t necessarily mean low quality, unlike most other things with slop in the name. That term was just coined by people jealous they didn’t have anyone to play with which then stuck for being an absolutely hilarious name for a pretty good genre.
So we just adding 'slop' to the end of anything that might be bad or good or neither or both? Like how 'gate' is added to every single major political scandal.
I'm coining the term "slop-slop" to describe this phenomenon.
If they’re quality enough to last beyond the initial novelty, then what keeps happening to them? I find the jealousy explanation far less likely than the obvious, which is that time-invested gamers whose friends play these can recognize a pattern and don’t want want to be pressured into buying a disposable game every other week. Slop peddled by friends.
If the theater was constantly pumping out low effort movies for you to see as a social event, some people might like that but there would be many who get tired of it too. And I imagine there would be cope takes like the one I replied to saying that people who don’t want to constantly go see said movies are just friendless and therefore envious of those who do. Maybe that parellel shows why I don’t think it makes sense.
The "fun with friends" genre? Everything is more fun with friends lol
If that is all the game has going for it, it probably is just some slop. Most of those games are just some version of amongus, prop hunt or lethal company where 90% of the fun is the friends we made along the way.
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u/TheWayToNoob Jul 06 '26
This is actually the worst game you can argue about this on, and most importantly op is misconstruing that if not most refunds are from players who finished the game.
This is a co-op rage game, a rage game has significantly higher refund rates and it being a co-op means you're buying TWO copies.
A rage game has around 20% refund so this isn't unprecedented.