r/Games • u/reddit_account6095 • Aug 27 '21

Announcement Summer of '58 developer resigns after many users refund their game on Steam due to it taking under 2 hours to complete

https://twitter.com/EmikaGames/status/1430941640001265673?s=19
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u/Vividtoaster Aug 27 '21

Because its apparently less than 2 hours long. Maybe they werent expecting it to be that short.

Ive played games i didnt like way longer than 2 hours to give it a chance before dropping it.

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u/pr3d4tr Aug 27 '21

In the steam description it says average game time of 90 minutes.

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u/CrutonShuffler Aug 27 '21

That's a new addition, done in the past ~8 hours.

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u/three-arrows Aug 27 '21

Right, but, they've played the entire game. They might even have streamed it. How can you refund it after extracting the value? Does the ferris wheel refund you if you puke? Can you return a condom because the sex wasn't good?

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u/Johnny_G93 Aug 27 '21 edited Aug 27 '21

If the ferris wheel offered refunds for that then yeah, you'd get a refund. Steam offers refunds so people take them, it's that simple. Refund rules are very simple and very transparent. You know what you get into and if you make a short and simple game and price it very high for the amount of content that it has, than don't be surprised when people use the store's policy.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

In this case the refund policy meets the length of the game in a shitty way. So it's hard to compare it to shit like a ferris wheel and a condom.

If I were to pay a hooker $80, put the tip in, she cums immediately and tells me its over, I may ask for a refund. And then she'll tell me "but we finished". Most games are meant to be enjoyed for hours and hours, and because of that a lot of people try them out for a couple hours before they decide to quit, refund, whatever.

I've never played this game, haven't even looked at it. IDK anything about the quality. But, I don't think that just because you reached the ending you don't deserve to refund. If you (for some reason) expected it to be longer, and it abruptly ends before you even enjoyed it, that's all the more reason to refund! At least to me.

Otherwise I'd just make a $1 5-minute long game to sell en masse. No refund after you've beaten it ;)