• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    Except that people didn’t realize that the account was mandatory until this announcement because they didn’t read the store page nor the message you get the first time you launch the game, and Steam probably doesn’t tell devs why a game was refunded.

    The PSN account was mandatory when you first logged in on day one, but was made optional later that day due to server load while Sony rolled out extra infrastructure. Why would they knowingly sell a game in 20 countries that would just refund it 10 minutes after first launching it?

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      9 months ago

      Why would they knowingly sell a game in 20 countries that would just refund it 10 minutes after first launching it?

      Simple answer greed. Sony is the most greedy and bullshit company ever. Proprietary ports, storage media, software. Never following open standards. They know of all the people they have screwed over won’t ask for refund. Even if a big chunk do ask majority of thise demands will be rejected. All companies are willing to take that small a risk.

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      9 months ago

      Why would they knowingly sell a game in 20 countries that would just refund it 10 minutes after first launching it?

      Because the refunds stopped after the first day as you said, why would they stop a cash flow coming in knowing it would now no longer be refunded anymore?

      And yes of course steam passes that information along, why would you claim they don’t?