Yeah I call BS on that, the laws protect you from this type of behaviour and Valve would open themselves up for all kinds of legal trouble if they charged more than what was intended. So either you’re lying or you’re leaving some details out.

Well, that and how pretty much all of the competition, except Itch and maybe GOG (both of which are less “competitor” and more “different market segment”), is even worse.

Nice! 

Very nice of them

Got me. You seem really invested in defending a bad take. Rough week at work? Where did the mean man asking for clarity touch you? You could have passed the question on or just let it be but man your tome everything screams “look at how smart I am agghhh”.

No my sentence told you. Reading comprehension....

Nah you are just being pedantic. 

Nah, the statement on paper is contradicting itself. Only if you take intent of speech into account and sprinkle on some goodwill, it becomes somewhat coherent.

I think they mean they had a long track record of not doing it. Then they tried it for a bit, didn’t like it, and never did it again. 

Mason: “So that’s it? After 13 years, so long, good luck?”

“I’m asking for a second chance”

Yeah smurfing is bullshit and should not be tolerated.

Ha this was EPIC. Glad to see it.  I know when I try to learn a complicated game, like DOTA 2, smurfs absolutely destoyed the new player experience.

Nah.

You have 2 hours to refund, and often when there are controversial games they don’t even hold you to that, you can get the refund if you’re over that anyway.

But it smells so good....

They did but this studio was clearly pulling some scammy shit from the start and absolutely intended to mislead buyers. I get it, a fool is easily parted with his money, but how they’ve handled this entire situation beginning to end leads me to just side with all consumer’s, this never should’ve been a purchasable…

The pre-greenlight system of vetting every game was awful. Way too much of a bottleneck, took weeks for games to get approved, and turned away a lot of good games for inconsistent reasons. Even by Valve’s own admission they would’ve turned away Visual Novel games had the system not changed because they’d assume there…

I’m not sure what the actual “vetting” process would entail..? The Day Before was a playable game that wasn’t infected with any malware. That’s pretty much the only criteria required to sell something on Steam. Quality is largely subjective so if you’re expecting Valve to curate, that means a lot of good games would…

Holy crap someone else who actually remembers the days where people were mad that Valve were the arbiters of what got released on PC.