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From: "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: CRAP Poll #Orange-Is-The-New-Black
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:23:44 -0500
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Rin Stowleigh wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:19:03 +0300, Anssi Saari
> <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:
> 
>> But what do you do if you find the game lacking and still somehow ended
>> up putting 60 hours in it? Leave a negative review?
> 
> If the game compelled you to play 60 hours, how bad could it have
> really been?  To expect to refund it after a couple of hours really
> isn't a reasonable ask, people would refund games because they don't
> like the ending.  Imagine if movie theatres operated that way back in
> the day and were required to issue refunds when the viewer didn't like
> how it turned out.
> 

i was furous about Heroes of Might & Magic 7 not working that I was so 
angry I didn't even ask for a refund. I heard it's a lot like HOMM 6, 
but that doesn't substitute for playing it.

Some kind of error where the game is half in my library maybe I will buy 
it one more time on GOG.

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Hasbro