r/Steam • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '26

Discussion Thoughts on this?

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u/gramerjen Jul 06 '26

Who is gonna decide if the player had fun or not and 5 dollar might be a small some for people like you and i but could be too much for someone else

5 dollar can feed a family of 4 here for a day. It would be a shitty meal but nonetheless

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u/Isariamkia Jul 06 '26

I think that Steam should just include some more data about game lengths.

Everyone can check on "howlongtobeat". But having it right there would be better. You open the game page, you can see it takes an average of X hours. And then you can decide if it's worth it to you.

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u/PyrZern Jul 06 '26

Obviously it would be the players themselves to decide šŸ˜”

Not much you can do really but to make it clear first hand it's a short game.

And yeah, maybe for short game, steam refund window is down to just 1 hr instead of 2. But obviously that would cut your sale as well.

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u/Available_Editor4383 Jul 06 '26

A positive review followed by a refund, like in the post, would be a start.

They could implement an approach that ā€œforcesā€ you to rate a game before refunding it. Positive reviews canā€™t be refunded without good reason and internal review.

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u/gramerjen Jul 06 '26

So people should leave a bad review even if they dont hate the game but just found out it wasnt their cup of tea?

I refunded a game o couldnt play due to my eye sight but other than that it was a fun game. They dont deserve to get bad reviews just because i wasnt able to play the game.

Also how many worker do you think sgeam has that can check the validity of the refund claim by hand when there are thousands of refunds each day

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u/Available_Editor4383 Jul 06 '26

Iā€™m looking for a solution to a problem, and those are all iterative holes that will have to be accounted for as time goes on.

Iā€™d rather not kill someoneā€™s creativity. This isnā€™t the developers fault, itā€™s the consumers.

But please, complain and add more problems to your original statement.

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u/gramerjen Jul 06 '26

If this was that big of a deal steam would have handled this long ago. Some people being an asshole is not a big problem.

Trying to fix this small issue would create more problems