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Because there is nuance to it. In example The Stanley Parable has a playtime of 1.5 Hours listed for "Main Story" and with some more playtime people get 3 Hours or longer, information based on https://howlongtobeat.com/game/14083 . A single run can take from a few minutes to 15 minutes, depending on what happens. After the game is "finished" in the sense of the "story" and the "achievement", it would have a similar playtime as the game of this post with the refunds. I have a few hours on this game too. But this is a bit open ended and asks to replay multiple times, with many endings and weird choices and different experiences, without spoiling anything (very important in this game). And the game costs 14,79€. Now this game is very liked by most its players, including me.
On the face value by just looking at the playtime and price, you would have to refund it. Let's say you enjoyed the game (its not everyone's cup of tea). Would you still refund it, after the 1.5 hours?
You're comparing apples and oranges, that's obviously not the case here. Roguelikes as a genre would cease to exist if every run had to be over 2 hours, but nobody in their right mind would claim it was finished after a single run regardless of how they did.
I don't. Stanley Parable isn't a roguelike, never stated it. This is not an apples vs oranges comparison. Its about their playtime for playing the main story. Games offer more than that. And I did not say a single run of the game is finished, but after multiple. Its a story based like game, kind of. The point is, after 1.5 hours one basically has finished the main story with an achievement. But the game offers more than that with achievements and other goals to try out. And that's my point. You can't just base the value of a game by finishing it, whatever that means for the game.
According HowLongToBeat both games, Stanley Parable and Paddle Paddle Paddle, have 1.5 hours for Main Story (that includes many playthroughs with varying paths and so on) and 3 hours or 2.5 respectively for Main + Extra. That is what most people would play these games for. Paddle even cost only third of the price of Stanley. My entire point is, one cannot judge a game just by its playtime or more specifically, time to finish it once. If the game is a scam, that is a different story. But its unfair to refund a game at this price after playing it.