They denied my refund. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The standard rules are no refunds for games played more than 2 hrs. The first time you ask for a refund it’s handled by an automated system. Ask for a refund again, and an actual staff member will review. So just try again.
They pinged me for owning it more than two weeks, so that’s fun.
This is also part of the default refund policy on steam too yeah. Less than 15 days and less than 2h of playtime.
I’m aware, I may have just done it a bit early on in this fiasco.
Edit: “We will not be granting a refund at this time. The date of the purchase exceeds 2 weeks (our refund policy maximum).”
65+ hrs in… I wonder what my chances are…
I saw a screenshot of someone getting a refund with 90 something hours. Worth a try and see if they give it to you. Better then being stuck with a purchase you can’t/won’t use.
First attempt auto-rejected, FWIW.
No harm in trying again.
You might’ve gotten an automated denial due to exceeding the standard threshold for refund eligibility. Make another request until it gets human intervention.
Second try still got denied.
They did this to me with Destiny 2 as well. Dragons Dogma II got refunded no questions asked though.
Think playtime plays a factor, though for live-service games I honestly feel like it shouldn’t.
I’m with you there. If for no other reason than the fact that they’re designed to keep you playing. It’s kind of like kicking the victim.
Same, tried twice today and I think I’m just being put in the automated pile :/
It should be, “Refunding Helldivers 2 after playing more than 2 hours.”
Are we not into Helldivers 2 any longer?
Sometimes we have to make sacrifices to uphold our principles.
Not getting abused by Sony and it’s ilk Is just one of the many principles that we can uphold at minimal risk and for minimal cost.
Oh, found it. Sony decided post-hoc that:
a) You’ll need a PSN account to play Helldivers through Steam, even though why would you need a PSN account?
b) If you’re in a region where you can’t create a PSN account, you just can’t purchase Helldivers anymore, or play it if you’ve already purchased it.
Cool yeah pretty scummy. I thought this meme format was usually used to make fun of people for petty power tripping, but in this case, it seems pretty clear that it’s an appropriate form of protest.
Would some sort of class action lawsuit be a feasible response?
That sounds great, I’m just out of the loop. I will consult DuckDuckGo and come back.
Nah, it’s simply that the game is overrated so the devs had to do something stupid to bring everyone back down to earth.
I mean it takes less than 20 hours of playtime before you’ve already seen everything the game has to offer. It’s a very repetitive and predictable game. For me to consider a multiplayer game worth my money, it needs to provide at least 250 hours of enjoyment minimum.
Can’t even try a refund, with my retail key, sadge
Maybe try with whatever website sold it to you. If it was gray shit like Kinuin, AlleyShop, G*A (censorship to not give them SEO), you are outta luck. If it was HumbleBundle, Fanatical, or other legit sites, it might be worth a try.
Winning against Snoy and the Snoyboys
Time to buy it back I suppose! Snoy backed off.
Great news.
Came to say that. Power to the people!
How? I tried it now two times and didn’t get a refund with 50 hours on the clock…
Sony, flexed. Now PSN is not required, they don’t refund anymore
Until you decide to play your offline games offline. Then steam doesnt want to let you.
This used to be a problem for me but now it’s fine. I think it was a bug that Valve couldn’t be bothered to fix until the Steam Deck entered development
Isn’t that an issue with the developers of those games? Steam is ultimately just a game library. If the book you check out of that library is only readable on Kindle that’s not on Steam lol
Nope. Purely a steam thing. Either a cloud storage problem or steam overlay availability. Ive got games that just will not run without those things. 8n fact if i try to run any of them without first starting steam, steam will auto load, or stop the game until i do it
