Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can request a refund. An earlier post last week said they are offering refunds for rug-pulled players.

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  • mastazi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One important thing to add is that the refund is offered by Valve, not by Rockstar.

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    • hempster@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I guess Valve being the escrow, they may hold future revenue payout from sale of other R* games

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But I don’t believe at the scale of thousands of players for >1 year.
        Remember, they are (supposedly) offering it even if you played a 100 hundred hours. I don’t think that comes only from Valve. They’d burn bridges with publishers should they deduct it from their pay as a “You rugpulled our user base. We are now offering refunds if requested and will take it from your cut as compensation”.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well at least that’s good tbf.

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  • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I was thinking this, because that’s what Facepunch did when they stopped Linux support. If you had played Rust at all on Linux, regardless of hours, you were eligible for a refund.

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• emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I still blame valve a lot for this. Their TOS offer us no protection. Publishers should not be able to retroactively lock down a game. Diminishing the game performance or adding unwanted DRM after purchase should be a refundable offense. People choose whether or not to buy games based on properties like these.

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  • DaedalousIlios@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Valve has consistently offered refunds in these scenarios. They’re offering them for GTA V, and they also offered refunds for Monster Hunter when Capcom decided to switch their DRM bullshit and broke it on the Steam Deck. I think Valve has done their part.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Valve is going beyond any point in comparison to any other software company I know.

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