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Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected
Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.
I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol
Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.
Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.
Speaking about overgeneralizing much.
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Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?
You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.
Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.
I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.
I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.
Definition of a SteamBox:
Non PC Gamer Definition = an easy way for a PC illiterate individual or Non PC Savvy person to get into PC Gaming that's familiar to the ease of use of a console.
PC Gamer Definition = a way to FINALLY rid ourselves of that Evil Entity Know as Microsoft from OUR PC Gaming Way of Life....Long Live Valve, Long Live Valve, Long Live Valve!
I really enjoyed Windows XP and I Love Windows 7 but I want NO part of Xbox Live or Microsoft charging me $$$$$ to download DirectX or having DirectX updates exclusive to future Windows OS!
They can Kiss my asterisk!
Gabe Newell and Valve has once again done the impossible and pushed PC Gaming to unbelievable creativity and Freedom.
Microsoft upon release of the Steambox is COMPLETELY relieved of it's PC Gaming duties and any control that Microsoft THOUGHT they had on PC Gaming will be DEAD.
PC Gamers...we have a Voice and we are FREE of control from any ONE corporation!
For those who don't understand......
Many Games run on DirectX which is owned by MS. OpenGL is the same thing as DirectX but it's a NON-Profit program. DirectX only comes with windows and MS has already done the Greedy thing of tying in new DX versions with New OS...example DX10 only worked on Vista although it was clear that DX10 could work on XP
MS has done this AGAIN with DX11 only on Win7 and DX11.1 only on Win8 and soon many have predicted that MS would just charge gamers $$$$$ for DirectX straight out!
Steambox eliminates Microsoft altogether. Valve/Linux and their Geniuses have made a program that takes a DirectX game and wraps it all up in Linux and allows a DirectX game to run on a NON WINDOWS machine with the same and or better performance than a Windows machine!
Now Microosft has NO bearing on PC Gaming anymore and if MS wants to charge Developers to use DirectX well I'm sure they will all QUICKLY switch to OpenGL which a lot are doing anyway thanks in part to Nvidia and AMD!
For me and millions of other PC Gamers this a GREAT Thing and I'm sure Valve or Linux will allow regular PC's to get a hold of that wonderful program thus allowing PC's to be free of MS too. (I already have Windows and OSX on my PC and some have Linux as well as Windows and OSX)
I just really want to be able to play PC Games with NO interference from MS.
There are plenty of Compact PC's on the Cheap that you can buy right now, like on ibuypower, they have a new compact PC called Revolt, and the 600 dollar SKU can and WILL out perform the next Xbox and Playstation.
There really isn't any Excuse guys, PC gaming is more accessible than ever.
I just recently started gaming on pc and I never thought the graphics were that much ahead of consoles until I witnessed it for myself! Final Fantasy 14, Tera, Far Cry 3 and hitman absolution have all made me a true believer. 360 will still be my primary console but I'm not sure how much longer I will fell that way.
Build your own and save money without having to buy Windows. Otherwise the X51 looks cool. Not that small though.