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Like the other person said, you can check your Steam account to see every key redemption that you’ve ever done. I believe refunds should still appear on that. I’m not sure if Steam initiated refunds will though.

A very manual process. Unless they can get greenlit from valve to have API access to the steam key system it would mean they would need to go in and manually deactivate keys that are not redeemed per batch.

I’m more surprised steam doesn’t offer the feature built in to be honest.

I was quite surprised as well, when my card was stolen I called discover and they just charged back the transactions, granted they said it would be reinstated if their internal investigation proved to be a fake claim but, they got insurance from the feds for stuff like that, so they don’t need to care too much.

This right here is why I never believed the claims either.

I get the claim of they buy the key in lesser off regions for cheaper to sell at a higher price but, steam dashboard allows you to individually disable keys for any reason you like. I wouldn’t imagine anyone actually daring to try to resell those(review keys), they would be blacklisting themselves from the industry.

There’s the argument that the publisher/dev might be new to it and didn’t log who got what key but, I wouldn’t bet access to games on that.

if its steam, none of the stats are lost, if they repurchased the game they would have it again. You just can’t buy a game you don’t know is missing. I don’t think cloud saves are ever deleted, I’ve had cloud saves be restored when I refunded and then humble choice provided me a key to the same game 4 years later.

Yeah, this is why I stopped donating to them

I donated to them for a few years, $20 a year, so not much. And then one year they sent me an email that was very clearly meant to guilt trip me into thinking I wasn’t donating enough to the platform. So I cancelled the contribution instead.

you’ll notice the same people who give good relationship advice are also the people who have no relational attachments

You gave me far too many laughs to justify in a simple upvote, thank you. lmao

Yeah, but NVIDIA used to be at least somewhat affordable. Now it feels like you have to get a credit check in order to buy any type of their components.

this is true just in general even ignoring AI.

When you make a mistake, the boss is hard on your heels, if the mistake is found to be on the bosses part, magically it’s no longer a mission critical mistake.

I know motorola/android does this. My phone will be fine for days to weeks, then mysteriously when an update is available i’ll have weird bugs or issues with bluetooth, or the battery, or screen activiation that gets resolved after it reboots and updates.

Jokes on you, even if we didn’t delete it, we laid off our customer service departments - Microsoft

I saw that, I never buy a medium pizza though but I have been tempted.

yea figured. I still can see someone thinking that it would be a good marketing term.

I expect this is a joke but, I could see some mid to upper level exec thinking this would be an amazing marketing term somehow so until proven otherwise I can see it.

This is something I don’t think should be legal under false advertising laws as well.

When fortnite was super popular, they would release “physical” releases of their cosmetics dlcs. We would have grandmas coming in wanting to get little timmy the game they wanted, and would choose the 40$ DLC thinking it was an actual game when in reality it was a plastic case with a download code in it. We would explain “hey btw just incase you didn’t know, this isn’t actually a game, its 40$ for some skins on a free to play game that they already have”

9/10 customers would be like “Wait what really? thats so shitty thank you for informing me” and would choose another game from the selection.

It’s blatant false advertising and super deceptive marketing tactics. A physical release should not be a code to use a license. It should be the actual game.

Honestly, in this case I think its time based licensing that is the issue. This would be very limited as an issue as a whole if publishers/creators couldn’t say “yea so you have the ability to sell this, but after X years you lose the ability to host it period”

Currently big companies like sony can just offload the blame to the license holder saying “yea we cant host it anymore” when in reality it shouldn’t matter.

Licensing that expire over time shouldn’t be legal. If you bought a license to use a product, you should be allowed to keep that product. Don’t provide updates if don’t want to, but if you paid for the ability to have and use a product (in this case media) it shouldn’t be legal to retroactively pull it without compensation.

Said compensation should also at minimum be a percentage of the product based off how much it was used, with the overall refund not allowed to go under half the price of the product paid. The fact they can be like “yea we don’t wanna host this anymore but we aren’t going to provide refunds” is ridiculous.

Being said, I agree with your sentiment. I firmly believe bypassing DRM for a product you bought and have the right to use should be legal. I don’t agree that Ripping a movie that you purchased that has a DRM component should be illegal, just like I don’t agree that removing a DRM component from a game I own should be illegal. If you own the product, you should be allowed to use it how you want. I can understand the exception of distribution(this doesn’t mean I agree with it), because I get it $$$ but the fact I can potentially be charged criminally for ripping a 4k disk, and then putting it on my private media server that only I have access to, is insane to me.

I heavy disagree with tasting no difference. I love Dominos pizza vs the other pizzas available. Sucks that they don’t do stuffed crust but, the price compared to others and the lesser oil used I love.

I buy a pamseaon sauce pizza or BBQ and bacon/ham pizza every few months through them.

All good! And yea this post has shown some pretty decent alternatives, some of which I had never heard of so I been looking at them as well

Yeah, it’s very weird because normally I don’t feel like they would care, which is the biggest reason of why I’m taking it with a grain of salt.

It’s clear from the response by the company that it’s not a trait that they actually are happy with. But I find it weird that it’s being pushed so heavily.