So apparently Steam was selling a game that was clearly dead.

[senordesol]

Honestly, while I do hope Steam takes the game down, to me it's your responsibility to make sure that you can run the game, which is precisely what this is. The game runs fine, but the servers are down and it's a multiplayer only title. I don't consider this too much different than buying a game that you don't have a good enough graphics card to run.

To put it into perspective, you can still buy copies of ?Battleforge? on E-bay, even though 90% of that game is multiplayer and the servers have been down for years. So if someone buys it from there and then realizes that the servers are down, I don?t have a ton of sympathy for them.

It's also worth nothing that, sometimes (thought very rarely), games servers actually get re-established. This happened with Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth 2: Soulblighter, where Bungie shut the servers down, but a group of dedicated fans managed to open up new ones.

How are those comparable at all? If your GPU can't run the game, you can buy another GPU to fix that. In this case, there's nothing the user can do to make the game run properly even if he meets the MinSysReqs. So, no, the failure is on the seller's end; not the user.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

Explain to me how, using that logic, I can buy launch games cheaper on Amazon and GMG than I can on Steam. The entire publishers set the price schtick is a load of garbage and we all know it. Publishers set the base price, but anyone can put that price at whatever the hell they want with few, if any, repercussions.

Which games exactly? I'm interested, it doesn't make a ton of sense for Valve to mark-up games since they generally don't get the lions share of the revenue.

Stick of Truth for one. http://store.steampowered.com/app/213670/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/South-Park-The-Stick-Truth/dp/B00CMJ1EQ6/ref=sr_1_2

I got Far Cry 3 for over £10 cheaper on Amazon at launch, too. And Sonic Generations was £15 on PC on Amazon.

 

[Strazdas]

You know once I said that I don't have steam. One person equated it to not having a car. If the car only every takes me to construction sites, exactly what am I missing?

If your car only takes you to construction sites your doing it wrong. Steam can take you to both good and bad games. Its your job, as a driver, to steer the car in the right direction.

That being siad, there is no excuse to sell a game that doesnt work and do not give refunds.

Err most high end physical products I buy normally say "Send it back to the company who made it not the store", for cheaper stuff yes I would take it back. But to say I'm going to blame a store like Wal-mart because I bought old software/hardware that doesn't work anymore (Which they do http://consumerist.com/tag/raiders-of-the-lost-walmart/) is kinda on your head for not being sure.

Im not sure where you live so it may be different where you live, but here laws regulate that store MUST provide quality guarantee for 2 years. you have a right to take it back to the store and demand that they either fix it or return money, they usually aks you to contact manufacturer directly, but i have a legla right to tell them to do it as long as i got the proper documentation. Its not so much as "blame the store" as "They must guarantee that product they sell work" type of deal.