• Cethin@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    32
    ·
    7 months ago

    I partially agree, but would you expect to be able to return a sandwich if you’re nonlojnger hungry by the time you finish it? Not really the same, but I haven’t played this game in weeks. This annoys me, but not really because I’m playing the game and more because it’s a dick move. If they let me refund I would, but it’d be a little fucked up if I did because I’ve already had my fill of the game.

    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      22
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      Idiotic analogy

      If you bought an electric car and the company recalled it and changed it to a petrol motor, would you be a Tesla owner and just roll over and lube up your sphincter?

      Ha ha yeah I actually typed that 😂

      • Cethin@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        17
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        The analogy applies perfectly well to people like me who have stopped playing the game. If they let me refund it’d be pretty stupid. It doesn’t matter what they do, I would choose more money.

          • Cethin@lemmy.zip
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            6
            ·
            7 months ago

            materially change the game.

            OK, sure change access. Materially change? So they shouldn’t patch it? If your favorite gun gets a nerf, refund?

              • Cethin@lemmy.zip
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                6 months ago

                Yeah, and that’s an extremely stupid reason why someone should get to refund.

    • GeneralVincent@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      This is a good analogy if you think of video games as a consumable product.

      It’s not a good analogy if you see video games as art. Like if you buy a portrait from a painter and two weeks later they come to your house and paint over it to be a stick figure. Especially if it’s just because they want more money from you.

      It’s also not a good analogy if you see video games as rented or leased goods, like most game studios execs want video games to be. Imagine renting a car for your trip across the country and half way there, you wake up at your hotel, look out the window, and the rental company swapped it out for a tractor in the middle of the night. Hope that works for you!

      Sure, it’s in the contract that they can do that. And maybe you finished the trip so it doesn’t really affect you. But it’s happening to other people, and we shouldn’t trust the company going forward because one day it could be you that’s screwed out of what you paid for.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      7 months ago

      I would expect to be able to return a sandwich if halfway through eating it, the owner came up to my table and put cheese on it after specifically asking for no cheese because I’m lactose intolerant.

      Or in the case of discontinued online games, it would like eating half the sandwich and having it taken away.