without being forced to. We have digital refunds
Small nitpick, but it’s funny that you specifically listed their refunds first. They were forced into that. Some may remember how comically awful Steam’s customer support used to be. It was genuinely horrible, with resolution turnaround times measured in days and weeks instead of minutes or hours. There was no instant messaging or ticketing system available; You had to email a sketchy email address, then wait days or weeks for them to finally respond. And chances were good that the response would basically boil down to “lul git fuckd loser, sux 2 b u”
Europe started pushing for them to be more customer friendly, because their refunds in particular were breaching some local European laws. In order to keep operating in Europe, they revamped their refund process entirely and recommitted to better customer service going forwards. But they only started the entire refund revamp in 2015 because they were going to be pushed out of European markets if they failed to comply.
RisingSwell@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Digital refunds isn’t them being good, it’s them getting sued by Australia.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 7 months ago
They could have made it an AU only feature, though, and didn’t, to their credit.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Because I’m pretty sure EU was next in line to slap them in the face for not offering refunds.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
and every other company would wait for every country to threaten them before enabling it there, because that’s 5 more months of extra profit!
catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I too hate everything that’s not completely perfect in every way
RisingSwell@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ah yes, my comment openly states I hate steam because it isn’t perfect. It’s definitely written in there.
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think it’s also just generally a good thing for them. I’m way more hesitant to buy stuff from humble and fanatical because I can’t return stuff, so I rather pay a bit more to get it through steam.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And they repeatedly ignored my requests for games which didn’t work, as it was three weeks or thereabouts.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ehh… Idk if that’s really on them. You can get around the playtime restriction by just playing offline, so there has to be an alternative restriction that doesn’t have that same vulnerability.
Three weeks is more than enough time to figure out something you own doesn’t even work.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I didn’t have the time to play it, tried to play it once and it didn’t work. I have a life and it often gets in the way, especially if I buy something on sale with the intention to play it later.