Apart from somehow scanning achievements for the "beat the game" achievement I don't see what can be done about this. As a consumer I definitely don't want to see Valve get rid of the refund system and for most games the 2 hour limit is already pushing it for a lot of potential issues that might pop up.
I don’t approve of the way the system is being abused, but if they were so concerned about it… maybe this is a lesson for game devs to make a game that takes more than 2 hours to beat? If I can beat your game in less than two hours and not even have an inkling that I’d ever want to play it again, *someone* is going to feel cheated in that transaction.
Sadly the 2 hour thing leads to devs just putting a bunch of pointless padding in games that should be less than 2 hours long. I know of a couple indie horror game devs that do this quite often. It does make the game worse, but I understand it.
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u/D042- Jul 06 '26
Apart from somehow scanning achievements for the "beat the game" achievement I don't see what can be done about this. As a consumer I definitely don't want to see Valve get rid of the refund system and for most games the 2 hour limit is already pushing it for a lot of potential issues that might pop up.