Utterly Mad

Re...funds? I thought steam was deathly allergic to such things.
What next? Proper customer support?

>Buy incredibly linear but fun game.
>Complete it before 2 weeks.
>Refund it.
>Congrats! You have had all the fun of the game at 0% the price!
(Although, no fun game I know of is linear enough for this. Except some visual novels, if you're otaku to the point that you have a hug-pillow into those types of glorified books games.)

In all seriousness though, this is a good thing. Now I don't have to worry about wasting money when buying potentially-crap games that steam seems to be full of.

Important detail is that you can refund the game, but only if you have less than 2 hours of playtime.

A really short visual novel then. Or would perpetually refund the game over and over to never reach the playtime limit work?

so, figured I'd give this thread an update.
Had two successful refunds meeting the requirements (14 days, under two hours), and just put in a third one (purchased a game I realized I'm not going to play, and I meet the requirements) so the system works within it's bounds. Had one unsuccessful refund attempt for HL2, I bought it, put seven or so hours into it and two days after I bought it it went on sale, so I put the request in and got denied, wasn't a big deal and didn't think it would work but thought it was worth a try.