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by dylz 3243 days ago
50-50 IMO

One example: http://store.steampowered.com/app/581200/Nash_Racing/

This is literally just the demo for https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/advanced-tuning-car... being sold for money. It's unmaintained and runs like crap.

Some of the ones that are obvious beginner games that aren't really polished have their place in EA/ex-GL, with people actually passionate about it and trying to build a product. Kudos to them for trying and good luck. This is a great thing, provides visibility for these creative minds, and all that.

And then you have http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Tero%20Lunkk...

This publisher deserves to be removed from Steam completely. It is not beneficial to the platform or to the players, and would probably cause increased refund request support load / chargeback or dispute load.

2 comments

I more or less agree. I feel as if Steam is starting to look like the Android app store. It's at the point where legit games have to worry about SEO. That being said I think it's really hard to define super simple games that deserve a place to be seen and played vs. super simple copies and exploits.
Steam offers refund? Last time I bought a game that I can't play due to technical reason, they refused to refund.
They have for a while now. If you've played for less than two hours, and aren't requesting multiple refunds in a short period, it's automated now AFAIK.
They do, but it's hit or miss when it comes to actually getting one. Personally I wish it just wasn't necessary.
I have definitely had multiple refunds done on steam easily.