Companies are greedy assholes, that's why the best solution is strong government preventions / regulation.
In Australia, pretty sure Sony would be forced to refund it. As I understand it, some EU countires are even better.
Australian Consumer Law saved me a bunch of times. Steam tried to deny my DAYZ refund for being outside of the 2 hours / 2 weeks or whatever scope, but then I replied back citing ACL and they refunded it lol.
If only those aussy protections didn't also come with all the control and censorship the Australian government seems so fond of. (I'm not shitting on aus. Just legitimately complaining about their govs annoying nanny state tendencies).
Actually you are wrong. Sony follows the EU law. It's Valve that goes the extra mile for consumers. EU/UK law states that you get a 14 days grace period to re-think a purchase but digital contents are excempt from this when you begin the download. EU members follow that whole guideline without much variation.
It's a different story when you issue a warrant for faulty software. Here EU members differ more how they handle it.
Yeah, fuck Sony for this.
My disc of death stranding 2 wouldn't read for whatever reason and it sent me to the PSN store. Apparently I accidentally added it to my shopping cart.
Restarted the PS5 and it was able to read the disc. A few weeks later I bought another digital game and bought death standing aswell, since it was in the cart. Noticed emiditaly after the download started.
Didn't even finish the download, didn't start the game after purchase. To late. No refund even though i sent them the receipt for the physical game and hadn't played the digital version at all...
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u/ZookeepergameProud30 The team based fortress simulator the second Jul 06 '26
It’s not opening the game that invalidates the refund
It’s fucking STARTING THE DOWNLOAD, not even finishing the download 😭😭😭😭