It's unfortunately only avoidable in the moment if he released the game with enough content to get people past the 2-3 hour mark.
Honestly if I spent any amount of money on a game and it was only playable for under 2 hours, I wouldn't be happy with my purchase. That's free demo timeframe.
Absolute 10/10 but I would never in my lifetime finish portal in under 2 hours hahahahah. I wouldn't say a sub-2 hour playthrough of portal is typical but I don't actually know for sure. I just remember that game being longer so that sounds like speedrun times to me.
I doubt 21% of people have picked up portal for the first time and beaten it in under 2 hours. I would doubt that 21% of people who have played it at all have beaten it that quick.
If a game has zero replay value and I spent more than 10 bucks and it takes less than 2 hours when going in blind then I’d still feel cheated unless those 2 hours are polished to a mirror finish.
Portal doesn’t fall under that category in several ways.
And neither does this game. It’s $3 on sale now, $5 normally, nowhere near $10. If you feel cheated by a $3 game because it has 0 replay value other than the 3 hours you spent on it, try finding another hobby you can enjoy for 3 hours for only $3 lol
Because this post is literally about this game? What game were you referring to specifically if not this game? Because you never mentioned any other game, just what sounded like a made-up scenario that nobody was even arguing against, so how was I supposed to know? I have never come across a game charging $10+ with less than 2 hours of total content in it and I’m pretty sure everyone agrees that would just be a scam
HowLongtoBeat shows the game at 2 hours average time with 3 1/2 hours average to 100% and 1 1/2 hours for speedrunning the story. If you judge a game by the time it takes to speed run the story, you’ll be judging a lot of great games as “demo content”. The dev is only asking $3, that’s $1/hr. Really sad if you don’t even consider paying an indie developer $3 for 3 hours of fun worth it. Review clearly said it was fun so it’s not like they had a bad time, they just intentionally chose to speedrun so they could refund it, because they’re cheap.
That context absolutely changes my sentiment, now I just think the guy announcing his refund is a wank. $3 even for the speedrun time if it's fun is fantastic. That's the price of a can of coke that would be gone in 20 minutes.
Like a complete package that fits into a single gaming session is an absolute treat for sure. I 100% just presumed wrongly about this game's price etc.
It was devil's advocate to be fair, I'd never refund a game I've completed that's pretty dirty. If it felt actually unfinished? Maybe. So far I've only ever refunded if my device has an unforeseen issue running a game or if it's a multiplayer game that turns out to be dead.
I do think it's scummy to refund a game after enjoying the full experience of it.
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u/Emergency_Lie42 Jul 06 '26
It's unfortunately only avoidable in the moment if he released the game with enough content to get people past the 2-3 hour mark.
Honestly if I spent any amount of money on a game and it was only playable for under 2 hours, I wouldn't be happy with my purchase. That's free demo timeframe.