Steam :: Steam News :: Steam Refund Policy Update
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Today we have updated a portion of our Refund Policy regarding pre-purchased titles. This change covers titles that are in pre-purchase and offer “Advanced Access”. Playtime acquired during the Advanced Access period will now count towards the Steam refund period. You can find our more information regarding Steam Refunds here.
  • Red_October@lemmy.worldEnglish
    642·
    2 years ago

    Sounds more like just closing a loophole.

    This is not about early access, where you buy an unfinished game that may never be completed. Advanced Access is the fairly uncommon offering where buying some sort of special edition gives you access to the full, complete game a few days before official release.

    Advanced Access is time spent with the finished, release-state game. There was no reason for this to have not been counted before.

  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    183·
    2 years ago

    A dude made a YouTube video to get all achievements for Skyrim within the 2 hour play time return window and actually got it

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    912·
    2 years ago

    I wish this wasn’t like this. Games should not be allowed to be “early access” for years on end. There should be a realistic linitation, because so many games are EA and then abandoned.

    • Pheonixdown@lemm.eeEnglish
      311·
      2 years ago

      This isn’t early access, it’s advanced access, like if a game has a deluxe edition that lets people play a few days before the official release.

    • Zekas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      2 years ago

      Advanced access (read as in advance of public access) is for games offering you to ‘play early’ (they delay the release) for 2-3 days.