I had zero expectations when I loaded Secrets of Raetikon. The name alone was uninviting, but ultimately the game owes a majority of that skepticism to its alpha tag, as well as my countless encounters with sketchy, similarly classified titles. You see, I’m not a hugely supportive advocate of the whole “pay now for content you’ll get eventually” deal — also known as Steam Early Access. I’m more of an instant gratification kind of guy, which is why my freezer is packed to the brim with Hot Pockets. However, this particular alpha label didn't scare me off. I don’t know if it was the Steam page description, which boasts a strangely assembled, open-world of wilderness to explore, or the promise of a campaign about the “enduring struggle between nature and civilization,” but something told me to disregard my internal warnings, and I’m glad that I did.
Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected
Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.
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Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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