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Usually, if you buy software online, you're kind of stuck with it. But today, EA has set a new policy for games on Origin: you can return game downloads for full refunds within 24 hours of the first time you launch the game, within seven days from when you purchase it, or within the first seven days after the game's release if you pre-ordered. Whichever happens first.
Here's the catch: it's for EA-published games only as of right now. Here's how you'd go about requesting a refund:
Just visit your order history and click the “request a refund” link next to your recent purchase, answer a few quick questions, and we’ll take it from there.
The policy is effective starting today, but only in 20 countries. It'll be available worldwide within the next few weeks/by September. It's worth noting that Steam, by contrast, does not offer refunds or exchanges on games, DLC or in-game purchases.
And here are the nitty-gritty details of how returns will work on Origin:
Full game digital downloads (PC/Mac) published by “Electronic Arts” (collectively Electronic Arts Inc. if you reside in the United States, Canada or Japan and EA Swiss Sarl if you reside in any other country) and purchased on the Origin Store (Origin.com and purchases within the Origin gaming application) may be eligible for a refund if we receive your request within the earlier of: (i) seven (7) days from the date of purchase, (ii) seven (7) days from the game’s release date if you pre-ordered/pre-purchased or (iii) twenty-four (24) hours after the first time the game is launched or run. For full game digital downloads that are part of a bundle, the twenty-four (24) hour time period begins as soon as one game within the bundle is launched. Once a refund is issued, you will no longer have access to the game. To request a refund, visit your Order History and select the “Request a Refund” link next to any eligible product. Complete and submit the Refund Request Form. You will get a response within forty-eight (48) hours after your request is submitted and your refund within seven (7) to ten (10) days if you meet the Great Game Guarantee refund requirements.
● If you request a refund for a product that is part of a bundle or a product that comes with bonus content, your refund under this policy may include the entire bundle of products/content, and your access to all included products/content will be revoked. Please note that dual platform products (such as one product that, when purchased, is playable on both PC and Mac platforms) will be treated as bundled content. Before you submit your refund request for bundled products/content, you will be able to see an itemized list of content that must be canceled/refunded together. You may then complete the refund request and cancel all the associated content or you may withdraw your request.
● In rare instances, refunds may not be supported for products purchased during special Origin promotions. The promotional details will explicitly state if refunds are unsupported.
● Refunds may not be supported where Electronic Arts detects fraud or abuse of the refund process.
● Electronic Arts reserves the right to revise the Great Game Guarantee Policy at any time in its sole discretion. Any revisions to the Policy will be effective immediately for all subsequent purchases.
Return and Refund Policy for Third-party Games, Packaged Goods and Game Expansions/DLC/Add-Ons
● Purchases from the Origin Store for third-party games, packaged goods, game expansions, downloadable content, time cards, virtual currency and add-ons are not subject to the Great Game Guarantee. Please see the Terms of Sale and the Returns and Cancellations FAQ for further information regarding any potential returns and/or refunds for these items.
Returns and Refunds for Full Game Downloads Purchased from a Third-party Retail Store
● If you would like to return and/or request a refund for a full game download published by Electronic Arts but purchased from a third-party retail store, contact the retailer where you made the purchase to inquire about the retailer’s return or refund policies.
About Your Refund Under the Great Game Guarantee Refund Policy
● When we have received and processed your request for a refund, Electronic Arts will request the appropriate refund to the payment method used for the original order. All refunds are subject to the Terms of Sale and the Returns and Cancellations policy. View completed refunds by visiting My Cases. If your refund doesn’t appear on My Cases and the processing time for your payment method has passed, contact Origin Help.
● Please note that nonrefundable payment methods such as Boleto and SOFORT are not eligible for the Great Game Guarantee. We will inform you if your payment method is nonrefundable during checkout.
Other Refund Rights and Remedies
● The Great Game Guarantee is in addition to any rights you have regarding returns or refunds. Please see the Returns and Cancellations FAQ and the Terms of Sale for further information regarding your refund rights and remedies.
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Via Josh Whittington
Most things I buy, I rest easy in the knowledge that if I don't like it, I can return it and get my money back. That new food processor I bought for Thanksgiving that broke on the first use? Returned. The headphones I received with a broken left ear? Returned. The monitor that showed up with not just a single dead pixel, but a whole dead zone? Yeah, definitely returned.
But video games have always operated in a different sphere—especially as we've moved forward into an all-digital era. You buy a game on Steam and can't play it, that's it. There's no recourse. Or there wasn't, until now.
Starting Tuesday, Steam is offering refunds on any title provided you meet the following conditions: You bought it within two weeks, and you've played it less than two hours. From the announcement:
'You can request a refund for nearly any purchase on Steam—for any reason. Maybe your PC doesn't meet the hardware requirements; maybe you bought a game by mistake; maybe you played the title for an hour and just didn't like it.
It doesn't matter. Valve will, upon request via help.steampowered.com, issue a refund for any reason, if the request is made within fourteen days of purchase, and the title has been played for less than two hours. There are more details below, but even if you fall outside of the refund rules we’ve described, you can ask for a refund anyway and we’ll take a look.
You will be issued a full refund of your purchase within a week of approval. You will receive the refund in Steam Wallet funds or through the same payment method you used to make the purchase.'
It sounds simple, right? And it is simple—maybe too much so.
See, in general this is an excellent move. With the death of the 'game demo,' PC gaming is a bit of a crapshoot. No matter how much you read, no matter how many YouTube videos you pore over, you don't know how your rig is going to run a game prior to buying it and launching it yourself. You just can't. There are too many variables at play.
And I can certainly understand feeling burned by a game. I didn't even buy Assassin's Creed Unity. I got it for review, and I still felt like I was owed some compensation for suffering through its early technical woes. Mortal Kombat X on PC is still a wreck two months after release. These things happen.
The problem is that Valve casts its net too wide. It snares certain edge cases that are now in danger of abuse—games/experiences that last less than two hours.
There aren't a ton, but I went through my library and tried to find a few excellent games that lasted me less than two hours: Braid, Papa & Yo, Gunpoint, The Room, Puzzle Agent, Among the Sleep, Thirty Flights of Loving. Even Valve's own game, Portal, took me less than two hours when I first played it.
If I were more of a scumbag (more than I already am), I could've finished any of those games and then—under Valve's own rules—requested a refund. There's nothing stopping me, except for Valve's vaguely-worded statement, 'Refunds are designed to remove the risk from purchasing titles on Steam—not as a way to get free games. If it appears to us that you are abusing refunds, we may stop offering them to you.'
How many free games can I play before Valve cracks down? Is it the second time I buy-and-refund a suspiciously short game? The third time?
A friend and fellow writer of mine, Bo Moore, suggested to me that maybe Valve needs to add a completion metric into games—i.e. if you've finished more than 50 percent of the game a switch flips and refunds are no longer viable. That would certainly solve this edge case.
But in the meantime, Valve's new rules present a bit of an issue for short games.
I speak from experience. Here's my big confession: A few years back when I was a poor and naïve college student, a friend of mine once bought the Game of the Year edition of Fallout 3 on the 360, we all installed the DLC, and then he returned the box to Amazon citing 'case damage.'
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I tell you this story just to illustrate that people—even those who then go on to grow up and think 'That was a terrible thing to do'—take advantage of returns. We all know the classic 'Wear a dress to an event and then return it' scam. Valve just enabled effectively the same thing, and it is up to Valve to fix it. Not to rely on the fundamental goodness of people and hope they don't abuse it.
That being said, at least there's some recourse when Ubisoft or Activision or EA or WB or whoever screws you next time. Preorders are not the be-all-end-all anymore. You can get your money back. For that, it's worth applauding Valve. They just need to iron out some kinks.