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[-] MolochAlter@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago

if it really is so bad you feel you should get your money back on principle, you know before the end of the meal/film.

I disagree that you would necessarily know.

Mass Effect 3 is stellar, until the ending invalidates basically all of your choices and destroys the galaxy no matter what you do, because the lead writer and the director thought it right to bypass their internal review process.

Firewatch feels like it's going to take at least some of the dialogue choices you made in the game into account but then it turns out it's entirely linear and smoke and mirrors.

A bad ending can absolutely restrospectively destroy the experience of an otherwise good story.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

A bad ending can absolutely restrospectively destroy the experience of an otherwise good story.

Don't forget The Witcher 3, where bad end is on par with Mass Effect 3 and the logic to get it is really dumb and poorly telegraphed.

I still have CDPR (and by extension GOG) blacklisted. They burned me on that entire franchise and wasted a ton of my time. As far as I'm concerned, they owe me a game yhat doesn't suck.

[-] huey_m@reddthat.com 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

If the game itself was enjoyable enough that you kept playing it, that doesn't reach the threshold of "so bad you feel you should get your money back on principle" imo. Would you really expect your money back from a movie just because you didn't like the ending? That's wild to me.

A bad ending can absolutely restrospectively destroy the experience of an otherwise good story.

Not to the point of deserving a refund, totally disagree. At what point do you draw a line? Should someone who hated the Game of Thrones ending get a refund for the years of subscription they paid to watch the rest of the show?

I don't think not liking a piece of media you bought as much as you thought you would deserves a refund when you've already consumed all or nearly all of the media. You've received a service and used a product at that point, you should pay for it.

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