Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband...
by syrrim on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:47PM
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>wanted to see if my PC could run it before I spent 60 euros on it
steam usually allows refunds in the first few hours of playtime, which supports this usecase as well.
Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband...
by vladvasiliu on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:41AM
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Good to know. There's a big fat warning that you forfeit your right to return the game as soon as you click download.
This is in France, where there's a mandatory 14-day return window for online purchases. But there are restrictions on some items, such as media must be "unopened", and I guess downloading is considered as "opening".
I think the people that bought into the hype got severely disappointed and anyone buying the game on consoles simply got scammed, but as someone who bought the game after it had been out for a bit, I've had nothing but fun with it.
In fact, one thing CP2077 allows that most other games don't, is backing up the DRM-free installer for the patched game. Steam/PS store/Xbox Online will die one day and all their online patches will disappear forerver, but the GOG versions of most games will run in 20 or 30 years as long as you remember make a backup of the installer.