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WOW OMG: Steam is refunding No Man's Sky even if you played more then 2 hours
- Thread starter Tony Iron Man Stark
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Yep I agree but on here lots of people dont even bother to read a op let alone different post in a thread. Sadly that's just the forum we post on
Roufianos
Member
Fucking hell, imagine if your TV started cutting out after 50 hours use. You wouldn't ask for a refund?
You're entitled to play a game as long as you like and expect it to work. It's not finite.
Everyone getting a refund should have been more cautious in the first place. A 10 man team making a game with a "bizillion planets". Prrrrf. Give me quality over quantity any day.
You're entitled to play a game as long as you like and expect it to work. It's not finite.
Everyone getting a refund should have been more cautious in the first place. A 10 man team making a game with a "bizillion planets". Prrrrf. Give me quality over quantity any day.
Dusktildawn48
Member
I played about 3 hours. Excited to get home and refund this!
Edit: and I didn't even buy this, my wife got it for me for our anniversary. I've felt guilty ever since for having her waste her money on such a shit game. She's gonna use the money to buy the bioshock collection for us both.
Edit: and I didn't even buy this, my wife got it for me for our anniversary. I've felt guilty ever since for having her waste her money on such a shit game. She's gonna use the money to buy the bioshock collection for us both.
Tony Iron Man Stark
Banned
You go back in there for your $60 and don't come back until you get your money.
A TV that cuts out after 50 hours of use I'm pretty sure you can get a refund for it or even repair to it for no charge.
That's the point he's making. You'd want a refund because the product you bought was faulty, as was the product I bought.
chillybright
Banned
Ah ok I misread. I apologize for my misreading.
Basileus777
Member
Huh? They've made a shit-ton of money and Sean is now a very wealthy man. It's been an amazing couple of weeks for them.
SpartanSlayer117
Member
You are kinda proving his point with that picture.
You seem like quite the masochist for enduring that and not only accepting it but going to bat for the developer that released a game in that state.
And no, not all games do what NMS has done to that poster. In fact I have played probably 100's of games and maybe experienced something comparable to that fewer times then I have fingers on one of my hands.
Emperor_Uriel
Member
Sean Murray himself was the final lie. He never existed either.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
For al the shit him and the game are getting, I think this is a bit too much. I would assume it's a mix of overwhelmedness and actually working in the game. He's no PR so probably trying to not simply go there and say something that might get people angrier.
All this debacle makes me feel bad for them actually...
DeathSparks
Member
Kibbles
Member
Might as well see if I can refund MCC.
Ploid 3.0
Member
A TV that's advertised as a 4k TV, but it's actually 1080p with the ability to display 4k videos. It also sometimes act up, it doesn't have all channels, HDMI 4 is really a service port, the speakers work if you have your own, and the revolutionary technology that will surprise you about this tv is that each time you change between tv inputs it has a slick slide show styled transition. $1399
Then it's glitchy as heck, and the sound of your own speakers drop randomly.
Nah, I'm ony reporting what I would do in such a case. And it's what I did back when Arkahm Knight was released on PC. Played it for 26 hours when Steam and other retailers offered a full refund until December. But since I enjoyed what I played (even if BROKEN like hell), and WB promised a patch pulling out the game from the store, I waited.
After all, I enjoyed it, and there was a promise of being fully playable later on.
For NMS I would do the same if I played 50 hours: if the game started crashing, I would simply take it apart for the moment, reporting the bug since apparently there's some kind of memory leak and waited for a patch. I mean, Hello Games promised free post-launch support and DLCs (yeah, before backpedaling), if I enjoyed the game in that crappy form it is now, there's a good chance those guys will patch the issue and improve it, since they promised it. But it's my opinion.
On the other hand...Sean promised a lot of things. I mean, I'm not even sure right now thinking about that, because since he backpedaled from the free DLCs thing, the amount of false advertisement he did until one day before the release...I'm not even sure the AK analogy could be right, here, because WB really showed they wanted to improve their crappy port, while Hello Games refused to reply to simple questions on Twitter and social media, going on radio silence.
So...I don't know anymore, really.
I wrote this multiple times in different threads: NMS to me feels like a 20€ game sold for three times the price for no apparent reason if not "let's use that hype to cash in as much is possible", so I'm not "knighting" the game or whatever as you can see by checking my post history: so if you feel like a refund is needed, go and ask for it, but if you are liking what are you playing and you invested a good amount of time already, stick with your purchase and maybe a patch will address the issue, since 1.07 was released some days ago.
Spieler Eins
Member
Almost. As it turns out, he was the alt account of Molydeux whose satire eventually developed its own consciousness.
Jacksinthe
Banned
Yo.
Throw shade at Hello Games, not the rest of us.
Most of us actually have integrity.
Edit: meant to say integrity. Friend was talking at the same time I was typing this and said dignity in conversation.
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
Go ahead? This isn't a Sony versus MS thing.
it didn't stop me from progressing in the game. did it suck? sure. but it really only happened during hyper jumps, so i would just make sure to save before leaving a planet to make the jump. if it doesn't crash, great. if it does, a minute or two lost. but maybe i am just a masochist
so you're saying that sean murray has no dignity now?
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
50hrs I would've shot you down. You know a patch will likely fix any crashing issues.
Yeah, it crashed a lot for me, but I'm not sure if it's "faulty" or merely terrible (it's definitely at least terrible), but I'm glad people are getting refunds either way.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Go ahead, don't think they're going to refund you 2 years later though.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
I hope you all get your refunds and that you all learned a valuable lesson: stop falling for preorder hype culture. This isn't the first time this has happened and it certainly won't be the last.
No Man's Sky looked trash to me from the moment it was shown anyway.
No Man's Sky looked trash to me from the moment it was shown anyway.
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Go for it bro.
Just like a patch fixed Skyrim PS3's issues?
I was enjoying Skyrim too until it pooped all over my face.
CecilRousso
Member
Not sure that that's a relevant question. It kinda implies that they shouldn't have made the game at all, which is not an option now, and they're obviously much better off having it released it, based on sales numbers.
Some will attribute malice to their development and release, but the truth is probably much closer to "they did as well as they could". And the only way from that is forward. And with the money they ought to have now, they should be able to build on this game, which would be something that is in the favor of the customers.
Read the thread
That's a long time to get a refund. Most retail products and service is up to 6 months with a year as max but most places get edgy at the year mark. Some places let you refund stuff even after a year. Give it a try won't hurt though.
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
No, fifty hours and his problems got worse. Regardless though, even if they didn't I still think it would be justified if he had consistent crashes and bugs. A product should work out of the gate. People have different tolerances for waiting for their product to be fixed. He reached his.
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
Doesn't matter whether its actual or hypothetical, its straight up unjustifiable.
Just like a patch fixed Skyrim PS3's issues?
I was enjoying Skyrim too until it pooped all over my face.
Some people would consider that a feature, not a bug.
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Lol so if something you buy doesn't work after 50 hours you just put it down and take it as a consumer?
Come on dude.
it didn't stop me from progressing in the game. did it suck? sure. but it really only happened during hyper jumps, so i would just make sure to save before leaving a planet to make the jump. if it doesn't crash, great. if it does, a minute or two lost. but maybe i am just a masochist
so you're saying that sean murray has no dignity now?
Want a cookie?
What you describe is not an acceptable state to expect a consumer to have to endure for a $60 product. You want to endure it thats fine, but that doesnt mean everyone else should.
Thats a good trade.
Jacksinthe
Banned
Dammit caught it too late. Meant to say integrity but I was talking to a friend at the same time :|it didn't stop me from progressing in the game. did it suck? sure. but it really only happened during hyper jumps, so i would just make sure to save before leaving a planet to make the jump. if it doesn't crash, great. if it does, a minute or two lost. but maybe i am just a masochist
so you're saying that sean murray has no dignity now?
And to answer to integrity: nope.
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
If it takes you 50hrs to make that determination? Sorry, but I think the window has long since closed on whether it passes fit-for-purpose.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Working against your own best interest is seriously weird.