Steam is allowing No Man's Sky purchasers get a refund after 2 hours of playtime

[SeekaX]

And really. if the game dev specifically states one thing. who will believe differently until they find out its just a big lie?

I do, devs promise too much all the time, i never expect the game to actually turn out the way they say it will at some large convention, definitely not without any prior credentials, that would just be naive with all the experiences i've made over the past years. That's why i don't preorder, i always expect the worst. So regardless of how often the devs lied there's still some responsibility left with the buyers who blindly believed them. Without any expectations i can also appreciate the things the game did well, to me hyped games either suck as expected or are a positive surprise when they do stuff well, like the recent DooM for example. I expected that game to be a trainwreck, and the MP very much is a trainwreck, SP is pretty decent though, since i had no expectations my experience in the game isn't dragged down by the terrible multiplayer. With NMS i knew that it was going to be an exploration game and that i could run around on planets, those things the game does pretty well for an indie game, the only thing i thought wasn't right was the price, that should've been $30-$40. I wait till a game releases and then i can look up the facts, not vague statements and lies. If someone can't wait just a few hours to make sure that the game he buys isn't a trainwreck in disguise then he's definitely not without fault for getting ripped off himself. Ethically speaking the devs are in the wrong, quite clearly even, but it's not the first time this happened and the reason it keeps happening is that people shift all of the blame to the developers instead of considering how they could've handled the situation better.

as for the xj220 its pretty well known that the car was a massive disaster at the time, it promised to come with a v12 jaguar engine 4 wheel steering and a whole host of other things, preorders came in and the car was built but it wasnt built to spec it had a metro engine and alot of other things were not as promised, people demanded their money back and jaguar tried to sue them..

its quite an interesting story.
p.s the xj220 was £600,000 new so.. them being worth 1/2 a million now when you factor in inflation is pretty poor and i dont think the people who refunded would be too upset about it. hell if they just left that money in the bank with compound interest they would be laughing about it. or if they spent it on a house they would have made a fortune if they sold that 1990's £600k house today.

According to wikipedia it was 470k pounds new. It definitely appreciated in recent years, but that might be because the price plummeted after release.

 

[shambles1980]

just to point out i didnt buy the game and wont. but i do firmly believe that you should be allowed a reasonable time frame to try a game then refund if you want.. we used to have demos, they dont do that any more. i bought pes 2016 soley because i tried the free cut down version, and i put 30 hours in to that before i decided if it was worth it.. if i could have refunded fallout 4 i would have. and it will be a long time before i buy anything from bethesda again.. i havent bought an ea game in years, all because i have no faith in them. and that is how the gaming industry collapsed last time. so ppl need a respectable time frame to decide what works for them, and in a game like this or fallout 4 2 hours is not enough to form an oppinion, now if they released demos that showed the main features off it would be different, but with no mans sky if they only had a demo of 2 planets you would have virtually the full game any way, which says a lot about the issue

 

[SuB]

Just to further debunk this

Message by Support Tech Rosie on Tue, Aug 30 2016 18:45
Thank you for inquiring about a refund for No Man’s Sky. There has been some recent confusion in the community about Steam refunds for this title. Our standard refund policy continues to apply to No Man’s Sky, and playtime continues to matter when refunding the product.

We’ve reviewed your playtime and unfortunately you do not qualify for a refund.

Please review our refund policy here:
http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

 

[lebel22]

I've read most of what's written in here, wow. I'm still non the wiser what actually transpired. So may I (stupidly) ask, was the game just over-hyped or did they totally use misleading and or false advertising?

Ps; I wished I never bought Battlefront, but never would think to ever ask for a refund. The game is sh#t with really sweet visuals tho. Played it only a couple of times and even the online play seemed to be hacked to hell. I have bought many games that I will never play again after only a couple of sessions, is that anyone's fault but my own?

 

[shambles1980]

the game dev specifically promised thay you were able to do things. (he also said it in a way that made people certain it was already in the game during development)

when questioned on these things he confirmed that they were there..

when the game was released none of it was there. but the game dev still cant tell the truth. and wants people to believe all the lies he told were and still are true..

they arent..

now the game, its your basic early access survival / crafting / inventory manager game, but in space. lots to discover although its all just different shades of the same thing. some ppl are happy with that because all they want to do is explore and stuff, and they can spend 30+ hours on 1 planet. and given you wont really notice how exactly the same it all is untill you have visited 5 or so planets. thats 150hours of doing something they want to do.
others want the game they were sold. the one with factions, epic space battles, good combat, not needing to resource gather if you chose.. (you know the actual game part of the game)