Comment on Choose your difficulty

• dan@upvote.au ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the reasons stuff costs more in Australia is that there’s significantly more consumer protection. Steam originally didn’t allow refunds at all, and were fined AU$3 million as a result: pcgamer.com/valve-posts-a-notice-about-australian…

  In Australia, it’s illegal to say “no refunds” or only exchange or refund as store credit both for physical and digital goods, and customers are always allowed to get a repair, refund or replacement if the product has issues. In the case of a game, that would be things like:

  • Game breaking bugs or bug that significantly affects the experience but don’t completely break the game
  • Changes that make the game behave significantly differently to how it was originally described on the site or in the documentation
  • Games that initially support Linux but the company dropped Linux support later on, etc.

  Steam’s policy of only refunding a purchase within 14 days of purchase and less than 2 hours of play time is also not legal in Australia. They have a separate refund policy specifically for Australia which excludes the 14 day / 2 hour limits.

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    huh. that actually makes it sound worth it.

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• Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Look you’re right and the housing market is a catastrophe also

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is 🏴‍☠️ an option, or are USA (MPAA, RIAA, etc) claws too deep in 'straya and kiwiland?

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    • Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ISPs can monitor and such, I’ve not gone into the intricacies of the laws myself. One can get around it all pretty easily.

      Tbh game prices are actually not too bad here. I don’t pirate games, steam etc are just too reasonable, and I don’t buy them that often.

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