Steam has launched a new programmed called “Early Access”, where Steam community involved games are available to play while in Beta. You can either play a free game, or purchase one with money. This is not the same as a pre purchase, with Early Access when you buy the game you get full access to it in its current playable state. Discretion is encouraged on purchasing a game that is in Beta.
This article explains how to link your Steam and PlayStation Networks accounts, which is becoming a must for Helldivers 2.
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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.
i dont like this .. ur paying to play a beta unfinshed game... even if its $1 its still a rip off.. it should be freeeee!!
This is mildly kickstarter-ish. I don't like the idea of paying for a demo though. Slippery slope
To the people complaining about this already, you're completely missing the point of this. You're not paying for a demo, you're pre-purchasing the game to get it at its current state of development.
What you're doing by purchasing an Early Access game is supporting the developers who likely don't have much in the way of outside funding; giving them direct feedback in order to make the game better; plus you get to play the game early.
Nice
Can I have early access to Half-Life 3?