Too bad a large amount of people already refunded it and almost certainly aren't coming back.
Its a real lose lose here. Because now they've already lost the money and good will, but also look weak and pathetic by backtracking on it. Especially as we all know they only did it because the backlash was getting bad enough to fuck up their big conference call soon.
They might actually just be trying to stem the refund tide. The game has already sold crazy well, they probably have more to lose from existing purchases than new ones.
All the refunds past the guaranteed grace period are at valve's discretion. They were refusing at least some refunds at the start of the shitstorm, maybe by undoing the announcement they're hoping to not lose any more of their banked sales by not giving valve good reason to approve any more refunds.
Too bad a large amount of people already refunded it and almost certainly aren't coming back.
Its a real lose lose here. Because now they've already lost the money and good will, but also look weak and pathetic by backtracking on it. Especially as we all know they only did it because the backlash was getting bad enough to fuck up their big conference call soon.
They might actually just be trying to stem the refund tide. The game has already sold crazy well, they probably have more to lose from existing purchases than new ones.
All the refunds past the guaranteed grace period are at valve's discretion. They were refusing at least some refunds at the start of the shitstorm, maybe by undoing the announcement they're hoping to not lose any more of their banked sales by not giving valve good reason to approve any more refunds.
I know I been trying for a few days and haven't gotten past the auto bot, while most of my buddies have.
Now I'm fairly certain I won't get it any longer. Which sucks but I can't be too upset as I still got my fun out of the price.
And you know they're going to just try and to it again in the future