That’s exactly what Valve did. The automated refund system wasn’t available, but you could request a manual review and cite the added anti cheat; Valve was refunding those who did so.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 24 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'd really like Valve to take an official policy on post-release changes that break games, but for what it's worth they have not given me any hassle with refunds in these scenarios.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 6 points 7 hours ago

Yup. If it's important enough that devs now have to add a disclaimer on the store page, surely devs shouldn't be allowed to circumvent that by adding it later. Since SteamDeck customers are affected by this the most, it's weird that this isn't already a rule, particularly for games that are SteamDeck verified.

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 37 points 10 hours ago

Full agree. I do want some kind of policy for games that introduce anti-cheat both during early access and after release. Bricking a game you paid for should offer some sort of recourse.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Valve was giving refund when riot added the anticheat

[–] xep@fedia.io 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Are there Riot games on Steam?

[–] DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 1 points 38 minutes ago

They publish their single player games to steam. Don't know about any of their multiplayer ones though.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

That should be any update if you can’t play the previous one

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world -3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think that's fair. I "own" GTA5 and don't really care for the last... 8 years? what they add. I had the full content of my purchase. Why should I be able to gain money for this?

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Don't be pieces of shit and you won't owe refunds.

In a just world people would be going to prison for it.