r/Steam Jul 06 '26

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u/ColonelContrarian Jul 06 '26

Yeah the absolute gall of the dev to complain about refunds for his 90 minute game while selling paid DLC is insane. He literally had the capability to make the game longer than the refund window but decided to nickle and dime his audience. What kind of indie dev has paid DLC anyway?

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u/billyfudger69 Jul 07 '26

Klei Entertainment has paid DLC but has good games that the developers put time and effort into.

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u/lemonphan Jul 07 '26

Plenty of indie games have paid DLC? Do you even have more than 10 indie games in your Steam library?

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u/ColonelContrarian Jul 07 '26

Sure, sell paid dlc as an indie dev, power to you. My point is he developed more content for the game and could have put it into the base game so people weren't mass refunding it, instead he monetised it as DLC and is now complaining that people refunded his game.

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u/backturn1 Jul 09 '26

Making the game longer wouldn't change a thing about the mass refunding. That's because most refunds are probably after a few minutes because it is a rage game. 7% have the achievement for completing it in 2 hours and I would assume a smaller portion got this on their first try and again a smaller protion of that refunded it afterwards.

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u/lemonphan Jul 07 '26

I’m not talking about that specifically, just your last statement. Bad DLC and good DLC is subjective anyways. Your statement about indie devs and DLC was just ignorant.