I wonder how much this behavior is influenced by the complete absence of demos and rentals in the industry now. I never bought every game I rented from Blockbuster, but I've definitely played a few demos to death and then bought the fully game when I finally found it, but sometimes that 900 seconds of the original GTA was all the experience I needed.
I do also know a few guys who will use the 2 hour steam refund window as a demo system, but honestly I'm usually happier to seek out a pirate copy rather than waste a real person's time at customer support for something I can just as easily do independently.
Plus I think the more you do treat Steam's refunds like that the more strict they get about what they'll let you do, understandably so, and I'd rather not strain their hospitality. Same reason I always get my refunds as steam credit, rather than real money. It's objectively worse for me in the short term, but they've generally been good enough to me as a customer than I'd rather do that than make them eat extra bank charges for an almost negligible inconvenience.
I wonder how much this behavior is influenced by the complete absence of demos and rentals in the industry now. I never bought every game I rented from Blockbuster, but I've definitely played a few demos to death and then bought the fully game when I finally found it, but sometimes that 900 seconds of the original GTA was all the experience I needed.
I do also know a few guys who will use the 2 hour steam refund window as a demo system, but honestly I'm usually happier to seek out a pirate copy rather than waste a real person's time at customer support for something I can just as easily do independently.
Plus I think the more you do treat Steam's refunds like that the more strict they get about what they'll let you do, understandably so, and I'd rather not strain their hospitality. Same reason I always get my refunds as steam credit, rather than real money. It's objectively worse for me in the short term, but they've generally been good enough to me as a customer than I'd rather do that than make them eat extra bank charges for an almost negligible inconvenience.