• TragicMagic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Usually yeah. I still pirate them but use it as an extended demo. Still more than 80% of those I drop in less than a couple hours and never play again. Then I’m just happy I didn’t pay for them. Others though like Factorio and Stardew valley I had to buy after pirating. They were just to good not to own.

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      1 year ago

      While there are legitimate reasons to pirate certain media, Steam and GoG have great refund policies that perfectly serve this use case.

      I use Steam, and recently refunded Stray for my stated reason to them that it’s way too scripted and linear for my tastes, and refunded Street Fighter 6 because I’m still not a fan of the movement in the franchise - they refunded me within the same day for both times.

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        They still only refund back to your steam wallet though, right? So it’s less a refund and more store credit. Which is better than most digital products, for sure, but still not the same as a non-video game refund.

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            1 year ago

            and to add to this for anyone else reading this far, Steam wallet refund is much faster to refund than credit/debit; the latter is subject to whatever archaic processes the financial institute has to go through for it, and takes about 2-3 days iirc