This is what all the blustering is doomed to fail.
If this does get investigated (spoiler it won’t) all that will happen is FS will tell them there was a public beta, so the real state of the game was well known to anyone who pre-orderd it. And there is a 2 hour steam enforced refund. And FS gave refunds users who asked well past the 2 hour mark because the game was unplayable for some users due to bugs. Heck, Steam will give probably grant a refund after the 2 hour mark if they make a coherent argument. I know I have gotten a refund past the 4 hour mark. Years ago I had a low end computer and spent 4+ hours trying to get a game to run well. Took a few days and some questions but full refund.
People can complain all they want, but the correct thing for them to do was request a refund and move on. But they didn’t. They paid $40, they have at most $40 of damages (or $60 if you got the bundle) which is easily rectified if given a chance.
The whole ‘I was deceived’ is baseless. There was tons of info out there and the beta was in full public view and playable by anyone who purchased the game. There was tons of opportunity to get a refund.
Lets be real though. this won’t help, one bit. No government agency is going to force them to make the game better. Just going to waste peoples time that could better be used fixing the game.
Why you think any government agency Swedish or not would be able to put any fire into a gaming company that operated in full view of the public? You somehow think making noise in that direction would do more than fine them? Why? Swedish laws in this may be better than American but this whole route does not pass the logic test. If they are a big wig this is a nat that lights no fire and if it does push someone somewhere to do something it will be to write a report and pay damages maybe.
Counterpart + concern (listed categories to follow)
– Agreement, price or marketing
– Misleading marketing
– Wrong (or faulty) or not according to what was ordered (context: the product)
I like how its assumed I am from the US, I am from Australia, also sorry it took so long to reply. I have better things to do these days than troll the forums on a game released a year early. I also don’t want to bother with a refund because as they know it is more of a bother to try at this point than it is to eat the cost.
Don’t forget to report it as a broken product on its Steam store page.
Because that’s what it is. The least Steam/Valve can do is put up a disclaimer on its store page if they’re not going to move it to the Early Access category where it belongs.
You’re right of course, but this could make things a bit warm for him. Money/connections = power.
That said, if people really want to go this route, someone needs to provide people with archives (not screenshots) of advertising. IE, They must show what was promised was actually promised.
Is it not photoshop?