I think that was misinterpreted. Uber is absolute trash of a company.

I know what it’s like to be a contractor. All work and none of the benefits.

I was trying to bring up the mess 343 was without saying it. Hundreds of “contractors” got laid off on release. There was a whole lot of tom-fuckery around that game. Microslop didn’t want to give a few hundred people a crumb of the pie.

A lot of companies enjoy the dancing monkey in a top hat. So we’re on the same page, sorry auto correct messes up what I write sometimes.

Honestly to fulfill the dream of making video games. It’s kind of how blizzard didn’t have requirements of a college degree, instead a portfolio.

Most people that go into making games don’t go into it for profit. Do you think my friend went to make a Halo game because it was to make money or because it was fun to have a lan party?

If you want to kiss valves’ ass, be my guest. A company with 300 or so employees making a 3-4 billion profit last year is the same as Uber. Everyone’s just a contractor and should be happy they use the platform. I’m not arguing if walmart or amazon is better. They both suck and they’re stores. Valve has a nice history of suck as well as all the rest, everyone turns a blind eye to this. So I’m not going to pretend they’re the good guys.

Is that the case? I didn’t really ask much about it since it becomes a heated discussion.

Yeah most people don’t remember being forced to get steam to play cs. And the fun of going from 150fps to sub 30fps. Nor buying HL2 day one and having to wait 3 weeks to play it–I should have just bought the cd version at the local store sigh

So I really hate epic. And the Ai BS. And this moron. But I have an unpopular opinion on steam/valve.

I will say, a couple friends are game devs and they have a very negative outlook on the 30% cut. One told me that there’s something like 80 games a month added to steam and that most have a 1-5% success rate. In other words, most of these game developers are being milked by steam(punny coffee joke). So rough math aside, between the steam cut, taxes–I don’t know if the steam cut is taxed, overhead; then splitting up pay and likely getting taxed on that, you’re basically making pennies. Bantering for Valve is like bantering for Google. Think of it this way, you go to work get paid but 30% of your paycheck is taken but you get nothing out of it. And you’re told worship your employer, just like you should worship amazon and walmart.

My deagle was vashs gun in 1.5

Solid point. Part of it is a blame game as well. I try to stress how local policies are important. Yet you will still have politicians that will state they will do whatever to overturn popular vote. I mean take pot for example, 41/50 states and it’s only getting a reclassification.

Aside from popular headlines; I think people are realizing they don’t need the latest hardware to do tasks or play video games.

$1400 PS5 steps into the room. Uh yeah we should release this on everything, anyone have the mobile version ready?

Great. Microslop doing this while announcing they’ll be making movies. With how competent they are, brace yourself for the movie “Mein Kampf.”

It’s like cool, I’m at home and playing video games drunk and my computer is also drunk.

“Your statement also suggests to me that you know what you’re asking might not be reasonable but you’ve decided to be angry about it instead of accepting that your actions lead to this outcome.”

I don’t think I was all that unreasonable. I played for 48 minutes. And it’s not like I waited months. But it’s a moot point. And well this is a thread on how much money steam raked in, so 4 gallons of gas I guess isn’t really worth getting all upset about it. I’m just tired of these half ass early access games. I think this is the only one I bought that I was like this is a scam. I’ve played and enjoyed so many but lately

“But then, here’s another question. Did you ask the developer for a refund? Because if it were important enough to me to be irritated about I’d exhaust all avenues before giving up.”

I didn’t. I tried their discord server and there was some issue I ran into and didn’t go further with that.

“You claim you had to Google how to get a refund. Your email receipt has a hyperlink directly in the text to take you to their refund page making it one of the easiest ways to get a refund in all honesty.”

I didn’t even know about that. That’s good to know. Thanks

“Steam even say they will consider a refund outside the refund window if you contact them (which is probably why other people are asking for more information or if you’ve left anything out). You even admit in another comment that you should have requested a refund at a specific earlier time, which suggests that you had the opportunity and did not.”

Well I did leave out stuff. I had a death in the family. Then I got the lettuce fun, hence my user name, so I was sick for a month beforehand. I lost my job, well quiet quit it. My accelerated college classes started, I had to get all my tools from work and my work vehicle, spent time applying for holiday jobs since I’m finally not sleeping 20 hours a day, I’ve been struggling with maintaining place and can barely keep up physically, I lost a lot of weight and I’m having issues with eating now because of how sick I got.

So yeah, I’m irritated, especially when reading how much money they made as if I should be happy about this. I’ll write this here since it’s fairly anonymous but I’m not going to write a sob story to Steam. I’ll leave you with this antique gem for letting me know an easier way to get a refund.

I mean I did write that I only had one refund, around 7 years ago. It’s not the end of the world since I don’t need anymore games anyway so it’s not like I’ll purchase anything else. I simply get tired of all the Steam ass-kissing, I have my own opinions on the platform since it was shoved down your throat 23 years ago.

Dude we live in different worlds. A week for me goes by like a flash and I’m constantly behind on things. As I stated, 48 minutes–not even–of play time. That was the only game I played last month a couple days later of buying it because it was on sale. I bought it on the 6th, played it a few days later and decided I want a refund, Tried to get a refund on 28th 29th? Maybe a bit earlier. I didn’t think it would would be such a hassle. I don’t just sit there and play video games all day.

Really there should be an easy refund button right in the library, especially for early access. I shouldn’t have to look up a guide to finding where to initiate a refund either. I did a refund like 7 years ago for one game and I had to look up how to do that then as well. You can call me dumb if you want, but I’ll say the whole process is buried intentionally.

Probably, most retailers will write it off and move on just so you leave them alone. I would also go as far as saying that 8 days past isn’t oh yeah I waited a year. I had gotten a complete refund for the half-ass–almost killed me alignment job, it only took 5-6 phone calls but hey eventually they gave me my money back. Personally I’ve rarely ran into issues and well there’s always charge backs. I would imagine that part of it was using some “funds” from “selling” skins from CS; which I don’t consider it as selling since you don’t get a check in the mail for the dollar amount.

Steam has reached a point of being big enough not to care.

I mean everyone can defend Steam all they want, but it’s not as if they haven’t done shady practices either. They’re just the lesser evil. And it goes as far as all the battle passes I wasted money on in CSGO, as well as buying the game for it only to become free, all those maps are out of rotation. And then CSGO disappears and magically becomes CS2.

Also 14 days? I don’t know of any refund policy is that short. But it’s okay, I will take the loss and just never spend a cent.

I probably should have watched a streamer instead of their promotional videos. To each his own, but I think the bar for early access has gotten so low I should have expected that I was going to be wasting money on trash.

I made about 8 attempts now. And sorry I get busy between work, classes, and life a week fly’s by.

There isn’t, I guess it’s my fault because I get busy. I should have just gotten a refund the day I got it.