Oh goody. It gets better. All the way in the front of the directive, before we get to the articles and paragraphs, we got the bit where EU claims themselves the rulers of a list of things and number 19 on the list says:
I also read, as long as the seller describes the minimum specs on standard hardware it doesn't matter if it works on the consumers hardware. And this stuff isn't even written in advanced Legalese like the stuff I quoted in the previous post. That stuff was printed in the blood of a thousand weasels and could be read any way I wanted to.
So Steam is perfectly fine to have any refund policy or none at all the way I see. If not already then in 10 days.
I read this as TOS and EULA's are a thing now as long as they live up to the other parts of The Directive on Consumer Rights (2011/83/EC) regarding digital content not sold on physical media.(19)Digital content means data which are produced and supplied in digital form, such as computer programs, applications, games, music, videos or texts, irrespective of whether they are accessed through downloading or streaming, from a tangible medium or through any other means. Contracts for the supply of digital content should fall within the scope of this Directive. If digital content is supplied on a tangible medium, such as a CD or a DVD, it should be considered as goods within the meaning of this Directive. Similarly to contracts for the supply of water, gas or electricity, where they are not put up for sale in a limited volume or set quantity, or of district heating, contracts for digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium should be classified, for the purpose of this Directive, neither as sales contracts nor as service contracts. For such contracts, the consumer should have a right of withdrawal unless he has consented to the beginning of the performance of the contract during the withdrawal period and has acknowledged that he will consequently lose the right to withdraw from the contract. In addition to the general information requirements, the trader should inform the consumer about the functionality and the relevant interoperability of digital content. The notion of functionality should refer to the ways in which digital content can be used, for instance for the tracking of consumer behaviour; it should also refer to the absence or presence of any technical restrictions such as protection via Digital Rights Management or region coding. The notion of relevant interoperability is meant to describe the information regarding the standard hardware and software environment with which the digital content is compatible, for instance the operating system, the necessary version and certain hardware features. The Commission should examine the need for further harmonisation of provisions in respect of digital content and submit, if necessary, a legislative proposal for addressing this matter.
I also read, as long as the seller describes the minimum specs on standard hardware it doesn't matter if it works on the consumers hardware. And this stuff isn't even written in advanced Legalese like the stuff I quoted in the previous post. That stuff was printed in the blood of a thousand weasels and could be read any way I wanted to.
So Steam is perfectly fine to have any refund policy or none at all the way I see. If not already then in 10 days.