if they consider there port shit enough to see refunds as a threat, Do we want it in the first place?Laggyteabag said:
According to the FAQ, Steam will consider all refund offers. The 2 hour playtime ensures an automatic refund (unless you're somehow abusing the system). But if your reason is good enough (and, again, you're not abusing the system) there's still a good chance you'll get the refund.Clive Howlitzer said:
I don't know about Arkham Asylum, but I distinctly remember a lot of people having stuttering and sound issues with City on release, and a lot of people being disappointed with it. I wouldn't know myself though.Asuterisuku said:
Maybe? I'd also imagine that there was not much time or support given to Iron Galaxy, who supposedly worked on the port. I honestly doubt that they had a ton of time, and probably told upper management that it wasn't ready but weren't listened too. They're not exceptionally large, and have been working full stop on KI Season 2 up until recently as well, so they weren't even full staff.Xsjadoblayde said:
The answer is probably just:SeventhSigil said:
I feel like far too many companies these days see "Early Access" as QA where people will pay them instead of them having to pay actual testers. It's a middle-manager's wet dream. I am truly delighted to see a big company like WB become the first major example of Steam's new refund system being a truly good force for the consumer. All the people who have said that Steam should not give refunds don't have any room to stand on here.Imperioratorex Caprae said:
I agree to a point, but refunds can stop companies releasing crap. On consoles we have had that ability to get refunds on games. All the way back to Atari. Im sure you could get refunds on PC games when you bought them on disc. I think refunds will stop companies porting crap and unfinished games. They will wait and fix them properly instead of releasing early and patching later because they want to start making money.subskipper said:
Yeah, I suppose it all comes down to how big the PC cake is. If it's not too small and not significantly larger than the cost of doing what WB has done now, pull the game and fix it (hopefully) we might see publishers straighten up and focus more on the PC version. Otherwise they might consider the winnings too small to be worth the hassle.SonOfVoorhees said:
If they are no longer going to release a PC version of their game because people are asking for refunds I think they are just looking for an excuse to leave the platform. Many people over the years have been burned by one game or another and stopped buying when a game is new, my final straw was Fallout: New Vegas. Many things impact negative sales and even if a publisher might not have to worry about the current game if a game is negatively received because of it being labeled as broken the next game will suffer. This even happened with Assassin's Creed because of how badly people thought of Assassin's Creed 3 it caused Black Flag to have less sales during its launch and it picked up when word of mouth about how good it was got around and I fully expect a similar trend with the next Assassin's Creed game.Laggyteabag said:
