Re: CRAP Poll #Orange-Is-The-New-Black

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?
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    b) Only if there is something really wrong with it (the
       disc is broken or it's missing something important from
       the box)
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    c) Sure, if the game is too buggy to run on my computer
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    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
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    e) If I try it and don't like it, back it goes!
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But that's just me. Where do you draw the line? Do you return games
for refunds? 
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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.

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