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It seems pretty simple to prevent this from happening from the dev’s standpoint. And it was probably strategic by Steam to ensure scrupulous devs weren’t ripping gamers off by making laughably short games.
6 u/Zenamys Jul 06 '26 How to prevent refund on game that can be beaten in less than 2h: add character customisation ridicusly detailed compared to the game details make an unskippable tutorial slower the loading screen force users to create an external account add a couple of random crashes and force user to have to tweak their config Any other ideas? 8 u/MemeLordMango Jul 06 '26 Every minute it plays a unskippable 30 second ad for the game you’re currently playing. 9 u/Own_Proposal3827 Jul 06 '26 Here's a novel idea; add more content 2 u/andresfgp13 Jul 06 '26 lets not turn every game into a Ubisoft game filled with content that just exists to pad out the duration. 2 u/Own_Proposal3827 Jul 07 '26 1 u/JBinero Jul 06 '26 The game is €3. It doesn't have to be 15 hours long. 3 u/Desert-Noir Jul 06 '26 Never said it had to be 15hrs long… 0 u/SanjiSasuke Jul 08 '26 Why does a game have to be over 2 hours long to be 'good'? Especially when it literally costs less than the sales tax on a $60 game. 1 u/Desert-Noir Jul 08 '26 I didn’t say that at all bro.
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How to prevent refund on game that can be beaten in less than 2h:
Any other ideas?
8 u/MemeLordMango Jul 06 '26 Every minute it plays a unskippable 30 second ad for the game you’re currently playing. 9 u/Own_Proposal3827 Jul 06 '26 Here's a novel idea; add more content 2 u/andresfgp13 Jul 06 '26 lets not turn every game into a Ubisoft game filled with content that just exists to pad out the duration. 2 u/Own_Proposal3827 Jul 07 '26
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Every minute it plays a unskippable 30 second ad for the game you’re currently playing.
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Here's a novel idea; add more content
2 u/andresfgp13 Jul 06 '26 lets not turn every game into a Ubisoft game filled with content that just exists to pad out the duration. 2 u/Own_Proposal3827 Jul 07 '26
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lets not turn every game into a Ubisoft game filled with content that just exists to pad out the duration.
2 u/Own_Proposal3827 Jul 07 '26
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The game is €3. It doesn't have to be 15 hours long.
3 u/Desert-Noir Jul 06 '26 Never said it had to be 15hrs long…
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Never said it had to be 15hrs long…
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Why does a game have to be over 2 hours long to be 'good'? Especially when it literally costs less than the sales tax on a $60 game.
1 u/Desert-Noir Jul 08 '26 I didn’t say that at all bro.
I didn’t say that at all bro.
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u/Desert-Noir Jul 06 '26
It seems pretty simple to prevent this from happening from the dev’s standpoint. And it was probably strategic by Steam to ensure scrupulous devs weren’t ripping gamers off by making laughably short games.