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From: Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: CRAP Poll #Orange-Is-The-New-Black
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 11:53:32 -0500
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:47:29 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote: 


>Question: Do you ever return games you've bought for a refund?
>
[snip]

>     b) Only if there is something really wrong with it (the 
>        disc is broken or it's missing something important from 
>        the box)
>
>     c) Sure, if the game is too buggy to run on my computer
>
>     d) If the game works but there's something about it I 
>        disagree with (say, discovering it has Denuvo) that wasn't
>        disclosed before purchase, I don't see why I shouldn't
>
>     e) If I try it and don't like it, back it goes!
>
[snip]

>But that's just me. Where do you draw the line? Do you return games
>for refunds?  
>
>
B thru E.

I will return a game if it is physically broken, has DRM I wasn't
notified of, has poor performance, crashes, or just plain sucks. I might
then rebuy it if I've found out that some or all of those things are
fixed.

When I was 14, I returned an adventure game that I finished overnight.
Too easy.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/12339/rendezvous-with-rama/

I've since grown up. I don't think I'd do that nowadays.

Finally, I bought a game on the Switch called Star Trek: Legends, on a
deal with all DLC. Turns out it was a port of a phone game. If I could
have returned that, I would have. I felt ripped off.

So for sure I would return a game up through E.

-- 
Zag

What's the point of growing up 
if you can't be childish sometimes? ...Terrance Dicks, BBC