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STEAM starting to issue refunds for players over the 2h playtime limit due to PSN on Helldivers 2 (nitter.poast.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Literally the opposite. Why would they ever do that? You are underestimating how easy it is to do nothing, game progress is beyond negligible in terms of storage space. And deleting it would reduce any chance of returning customers.

Look at it from sony's PoV, if they did delete saves and then the community becomes less upset next year, why would they want to preemptively prevent people for giving them another chance?

Not only would it be a terrible business and PR move, there is just no precedent for this type of thing. Do MMO's delete your characters once you unsub? Or do they just sit tight and wait for you to come back?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know FFXIV saves your data. You’re welcome back anytime with your account

[+] [email protected] -32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A subscription-based game is completely different than a one-time purchase that you've refunded.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I knew you would say that, but seriously, stop and think about how its literally the same situation. There is no reason that Sony would delete data from a customer that might potentially give them money.

Especially when the data is probably just a handful of MB.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The only way it makes sense is if Sony gets vindictive and opts for scorched earth. It doesn't make business sense but this is the second time within 6 months Sony have tried taking away content from paying customers by one means or another. They clearly aren't very good at business these days.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I like how you completely ignored how your entire point of view makes no sense and chose to pick apart an analogy that is perfectly appropriate for the situation

You must be pretty young, just keep enjoying your days.

Stay in school and maybe you’ll find out multi-billion dollar companies manage millions of dollars in inventory and data using one analyst manually fixing incomprehensibly large Excel sheets lmao