Re:Epic Games to Pay $245M for Tricking Users into Making Un...
by elpool2 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @02:20PM
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If you purchased something in-game with "v-bucks" then you can get your v-bucks back if you still haven't actually used the item in a game yet, or if it was purchased in the last 30 days (up to 3 times). They don't usually refund actual money, as far as I can tell.
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Re:Epic Games to Pay $245M for Tricking Users into Making Un...
by account42 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @07:20AM
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So effectively they don't provide refunds at all? Non-withdrawable store credit should probably be illegal too.
Re:Epic Games to Pay $245M for Tricking Users into Making Un...
by Falkon1313 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @06:03PM
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V-bucks aren't really store credit though. They're non-refundable and it makes sense because you can also get them through in-game actions.
Maybe an 'Oops! I didn't mean to do that.' undo button immediately after buying some. But it would be better just to make the checkout process explicit like they do on PC.
Re:Epic Games to Pay $245M for Tricking Users into Making Un...
by account42 on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:10AM
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I'm sure they can manage to track which fakebux you paid for and which ones they gifted you. The is zero consumer benefit to having intermediate currrencies that cannot be be changed back into real money. It's entirely a dark pattern used to make you spend more by obscuring costs and generating leftover amounts that you can't really use without inserting more cash.