Steam News : Refund Policy Update
Steam News : Refund Policy Update
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 r...
I find it surprising that existed. Not an unreasonable change.
For the lazy, when a game sold "advanced access" as part of a pre-purchase; game time before release didn't count to the 2h refund limit. So you could play eg 10h of a game, then refund it on release. This is them fixing it.
I kinda like this.
It was weird that so far this wasn't being done, and on top of that this might get the odd person to not pre-purchase something which is always a win.
Also has a con, "advanced access" is just another dogshit way for publishers to farm money from people with their "deluxe" editions. By having people be able to refund could discourage this practice.
So Valve basically killed pre-releases and beta versions.