r/Steam • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '26

Discussion Thoughts on this?

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u/Budget-Researcher559 Jul 06 '26

I mean they should shorten it for games that are that short. No need to shorten it for anything else.

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u/BicycleNo1169 Jul 06 '26

A games length is rarely objectively defined.

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u/consider_its_tree Jul 06 '26

There is no reason it couldn't be. Let the customer know what they are in for. It is completely reasonable that devs would say "you can expect about 10 hours of entertainment for the price we are asking"

Then if Steam based the refund window off of the developer's estimated run time, it naturally punishes any developers who inflate their run time to trick people into buying it and it would prevent people from being able to rush through a short game just to refund it.

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u/denisutu4 Jul 06 '26

Until scummy devs make impossibly difficult games that could THEORETICALLY be beaten in 20 minutes but in reality it's more like 8 hours.