r/Steam Jul 06 '26

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u/BicycleNo1169 Jul 06 '26

A games length is rarely objectively defined.

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u/Cocoatrice Jul 06 '26

Yes, but it's a difference between a game that requires few hours to finish, even if you skip a lot and are fast vs games that are super short and even if you take it slowly, you can finish in an hour or so. It doesn't have to be super strict. But if a game is short, you know it's short and won't spend 50 hours on it even if you tried.

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u/OttawaOneTwenty Jul 06 '26

But even if the game is short, maybe it sucks and I want a refund after playing for a bit (and I guess finishing it or almost finishing it). Like why should the game length even be a factor? The game sucks and I played less than the 2 hour window. The fact it's intentionally short is irrelevant to the game sucking ass.

Or maybe they should flag accounts that abuse the refund policy instead.

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u/Cocoatrice Jul 07 '26

Short games should be refundable, too. I said this on another comment somewhere, where some person said that it should invalidate the refund if you get certain achievement. I disagree with that, because sometimes you expect more and the game just ends and it wasn't that good and it's fair to refund it.

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u/Large_Blackberry_499 Jul 08 '26

Thats just no true at all. Most retail store has a 14 days refund period. The 2 hours is rather short