Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it'

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• SunshineJogger@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I guess they didn’t expect people to be such freeloading assholes to play their game in full and then take back their money.

  That kind of dumb people are why we have to deal with huge exploitative game companies instead of having more indie devs

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  • badgermurphy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think market capture is the core problem. The fact that any of these storefronts can play kingmaker and supreme arbiter of what gets released is what discourages indie releases. We are very lucky that the gaming industry ended up under the stewardship of a relatively benevolent company, but if the global economic stage remains as it is, the minute Gabe dies or relinquishes control of the company, I suspect it will shoot like a bullet to the bottom of the barrel with all the other publishers. It’s not a good situation.

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I guess they didn’t expect people to be such freeloading assholes to play their game in full and then take back their money.

    Have they even given evidence that their game is significantly more refunded than any other game? Or did they see X amount of people refunding the game and declaring that they must have done it because they’re evil?

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    • SunshineJogger@feddit.org ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Well, yea. Giving great reviews and then refunding, as one example.

      As if a good review alone was reward enough

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