Steam refunds Destiny 2 players with over 2,000 hours of game time after Bungie’s game becomes unplayable in numerous countries
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Very nice of Steam to provide refunds for that. Not every company would do that.
I feel like this kind of thing is sort of Steam making a political stance against the publisher. If Steam didn’t give refunds, then I imagine that they wouldn’t get much flack for that — it’d instead be directed at the publisher. However, if this became more commonplace, then it would end up eroding Steam’s reputation. It reminds me of how credit card chargebacks work: you get the refund quite quickly, and then the payment processor/bank chases it up with the merchant (especially if there are lots of chargebacks for that merchant).
That is all to say that from the players perspective, it is indeed nice of them to offer refunds. Also, I respect them drawing this line against this kind of bullshit. Corporations aren’t our friends, even when they seem to be working in our favour. However, if a corporation is acting in our favor, against a worse corporation, then I’m here for that, while it exists.
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I feel like this kind of thing is sort of Steam making a political stance against the publisher. If Steam didn’t give refunds, then I imagine that they wouldn’t get much flack for that — it’d instead be directed at the publisher. However, if this became more commonplace, then it would end up eroding Steam’s reputation. It reminds me of how credit card chargebacks work: you get the refund quite quickly, and then the payment processor/bank chases it up with the merchant (especially if there are lots of chargebacks for that merchant).
That is all to say that from the players perspective, it is indeed nice of them to offer refunds. Also, I respect them drawing this line against this kind of bullshit. Corporations aren’t our friends, even when they seem to be working in our favour. However, if a corporation is acting in our favor, against a worse corporation, then I’m here for that, while it exists.
I thought steam was eating the loss here
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Where in the title does it say players below 2k will get a refund? It’s misinterpreted on purpose, sure, but it is what the title says
Where does it say in the title and article that they won’t?
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Seems like Bungie is a raging dumpster fire at the moment. CEO responsible for current state of Bungie just bailed when his stock options became vested. The person leading the studio now is the infamous GDC “beware of overdelivery” guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6HqAhabFBA
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What was the problem of Lightfall?
I played some of the midgame expansions, but found it hard to follow the plot, and so much if the grind turned me off
Some of the worst writing and storytelling that the series has seen. The new subclass was great, but they forced you to beat the whole campaign before you could use it. The campaign gave more questions than answers.
It was just so jarring because Witch Queen and the proceeding seasons were generally well received.
Compare that to Final Shape where the Campaign was amazing and you get access to Prismatic almost immediately.
I still think D2 would have fell off after Final Shape regardless, but I have friends that just stopped playing after Lightfall and didn’t even come back for Final Shape.
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It’s the gambling. Destiny 2 is just a gacha game, but instead of anime women it’s guns.
How American.
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I feel like this kind of thing is sort of Steam making a political stance against the publisher. If Steam didn’t give refunds, then I imagine that they wouldn’t get much flack for that — it’d instead be directed at the publisher. However, if this became more commonplace, then it would end up eroding Steam’s reputation. It reminds me of how credit card chargebacks work: you get the refund quite quickly, and then the payment processor/bank chases it up with the merchant (especially if there are lots of chargebacks for that merchant).
That is all to say that from the players perspective, it is indeed nice of them to offer refunds. Also, I respect them drawing this line against this kind of bullshit. Corporations aren’t our friends, even when they seem to be working in our favour. However, if a corporation is acting in our favor, against a worse corporation, then I’m here for that, while it exists.
However, if a corporation is acting in our favor, against a worse corporation, then I’m here for that, while it exists.
The enemy of my enemy might not be my friend, but they’re a welcome ally. Let them fight it out, I know who I’m cheering for in between mouthfuls of popcorn.
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Some of the worst writing and storytelling that the series has seen. The new subclass was great, but they forced you to beat the whole campaign before you could use it. The campaign gave more questions than answers.
It was just so jarring because Witch Queen and the proceeding seasons were generally well received.
Compare that to Final Shape where the Campaign was amazing and you get access to Prismatic almost immediately.
I still think D2 would have fell off after Final Shape regardless, but I have friends that just stopped playing after Lightfall and didn’t even come back for Final Shape.
Lightfall sunsetted everything I was using that wasn’t an exotic. Completely destroyed my build.
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I thought steam was eating the loss here
Why would they? Not like they have too few for shoveling it into the steam machine already for their personal gain.
