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Refunds available for Fallout 76 (PC - Bethesda Launcher)
- Thread starter Thwomp
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Now if only somehow applying for a refund would delete your OS this whole thing would be perfect.
I think it is kind of odd to request a refund after playing a game for 24 hours of game time. You certainly got money out of the game if you played it for 24 hours. There are single player games that sell for $60.00 that comprise of a total of 15-20 hours. Asking for a refund if you played that much is wrong imho. But more power to you if they gave you the refund. You probably are one of those gamers back in the day where you buy a game, beat it and take it back for a full refund (back when some stores offered full refunds). In short, you just took advantage.
OP returned the game due to bugs and poor performance, it's like if the pair of jeans you bought fell apart within two weeks, they wouldn't be fit for purpose and you'd be able to get a refund. That's pretty basic consumer protection, that a product performs as expected. At least, it is in my country.
Neither of those are really applicable here though. The jeans are physical, this is digital, so Valve isn't left with a used copy of the game.
Your theater example is after you finished the movie. If you left the movie midway through and asked for a refund most theaters would do that (I think)
Well I think 24 hours of gameplay is the equivalent of watching like 3 movies or so in terms of enjoyment so that example holds best. The digital vs physical return policy is also kind of dumb because we could just use the example of a physical copy of the game that costs the same, either way its a lost sale after 24 hours of use even if the company has the copy or not. It probably costs a few cents to put it on a disk its the game that costs the money.
Just my thoughts anyways, I worked enough retail when I was younger to see the "bad side" of customers (not saying the OP is one of these but there are a lot of them). Anyone can do what they want obviously and it has no affect on me, I was just explaining why I am in the "no return after 24 hours played defense force".
Where exactly? I was able to use it while they were testing it on preview, but now it's gone for me.
perhaps everyone dumping on OP should read their second post where they note they played most of those 24 hours in beta and expected the bugs to be fixed now.
and OP you are entirely in the right here.
and OP you are entirely in the right here.
People talking about the amount of hours spent and still getting a refund is treating this as a type of game that has a beginning and a quick end, like a movie, or a pair of pants(?). This game is built around a type of service. You put a lot of time in to make progress, and as you make progress things should start to go smoother due to power of sorts. I bet in that 24 hours the player probably didn't even scratch the surface of what content may or will be in the game. The same was said about Diablo 3, where getting to the "real Diablo" took way too much time for a test to see if you like it sample, so much time that there are now shorter ways to get to inferno or max level activities.
A lot of that 24 hours could have felt like work, and now they're throwing all of that progress away by giving up on it because they couldn't find any enjoyment, or enough enjoyment to keep pushing, even though they kept thinking, "maybe it'll be better if I get over this hill and things start getting interesting." That's how it was for me and Vanilla Diablo 3. It was always the wrong class, maybe if I leveled another to 60 things would be better, especially since I leveled Witch Doctor with paper pets first.
A lot of that 24 hours could have felt like work, and now they're throwing all of that progress away by giving up on it because they couldn't find any enjoyment, or enough enjoyment to keep pushing, even though they kept thinking, "maybe it'll be better if I get over this hill and things start getting interesting." That's how it was for me and Vanilla Diablo 3. It was always the wrong class, maybe if I leveled another to 60 things would be better, especially since I leveled Witch Doctor with paper pets first.
Also quick, someone make a reverse gif of that dude trashing the gamestop store.
Yes because that is a ridiculous expectation with the given time frame and more importantly from a developer like Bethesda.
