Steam :: Steam News :: Steam Refund Policy Update
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Today we have updated a portion of our Refund Policy regarding pre-purchased titles. This change covers titles that are in pre-purchase and offer “Advanced Access”. Playtime acquired during the Advanced Access period will now count towards the Steam refund period. You can find our more information regarding Steam Refunds here.
  • Norgur
    30•12 days ago

    Yeah, what they are saying is that time you spent in the game counts as time you spent in the game. I’m honestly surprised this wasn’t the case all along.

  • @thanks_shakey_snake
    25•12 days ago

    This seems fine? Is there an anticonsumer angle or something that I failed to notice?

    • IWantToFuckSpez
      18•12 days ago

      Early access games can change drastically over the course of development. And can turn into a different game at release. I’m my opinion that’s still not a valid reason to get a refund if you put in many hours into the game already. As a consumer you should know that something like that can happen with a game that is still in development. You assume that risk.

      • @[email protected]
        17•12 days ago

        I think this is more for “preorder pig fucker 6 and play a day early!” type of things, the refund timer probably didn’t start until the game actually came out so you could play 24+4 hours before being denied a refund

          • @[email protected]
            4•11 days ago

            Honestly you’re not missing anything. The Pig Fucker series peaked at PF3: Stuck Pig. Four and five were clearly low-effort cash grabs.

    • @[email protected]
      7•12 days ago

      I’m not familiar with advanced access but I suppose the worry would be whether the game could be changed between then and the final release. If it can, then your play time might not represent the final product.

      • @thanks_shakey_snake
        18•12 days ago

        I think that’s the thing where if you pre-order the Collector’s Edition or whatever, you get the game 3 days earlier than everybody else, but I could be wrong. If that’s the case though… It seems like yeah why wouldn’t it count toward your refund window?

        It’s hard to imagine the game changing much in that window… But maybe it matters for zero-day patches or something.

        • DebatableRaccoon
          12•12 days ago

          Pretty sure that’s exactly what this is and doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.

  • @[email protected]
    4•11 days ago

    I thought that was how it already worked. I have no sympathy for people that buys early access games and then regret it. It’s has happened time and time again, that people get burned when buy early access, so I think it’s a good change