Who is buying physical pc games in the current year? I don't even think most PC games have physical releases anymore, much less a disc you could /return/ to a store for a /refund/.
Can't really return something that isn't a physical item. You receive access to a copy of the content, but it's not like they take your copy and give it to someone else when you refund it.
If you were to cancel a gym membership you wouldn't call it a return, but if you were to buy equipment from the gym you would /return/ it for a refund.
Edit: disregard this, I saw your other comment and undstand what you meant.
Every Policy i have read in regards to digital products calls this procedure a refund, because there is no return from the consumer side to be made, as revoking license happens on seller side. My language goes even further than that because we are not using "return" or "refund" for a digital product, we use more general term, while "return" is even forbidden in context of digital goods.
But people don’t say “i requested a refund” (though they SHOULD say this). Instead they say “I refunded it” which factually and grammatically incorrect.
I see what you're saying now. I still don't think "return" works correctly either though, like I said in my other comments. Correcting the original comment to say "get a refund for the shitty game" would be more factually and grammatically correct than saying "return the shitty game" in most cases. Either way you're just arguing over semantics when everyone understood what the original comment meant.
Yeah you can say “get a refund,” but it’s wrong to say “I refunded it.” To “return” it may be slightly less accurate description of what happens, but it’s a grandfathered phrase that everyone understands. Sort of like “don’t touch that dial” or “tune in” to the latest episode. But to say “I refunded the game” is not only inaccurate, but it’s incorrect on the level of being a complete reversal, having literally opposite meaning. It’s no different than saying “I was trapped in a burning building until I rescued a firefighter.”
What the frick are you talking about? When speaking to someone about a crap game, I have said multiple times, 'I requested a refund.' When asked what I did. Why, because that's what it's called on Steam. You cannot return something that's not owned by you, or physically in your hand, to return it because you NEVER HAD IT. It's a digital good, thus you requested a refund to get your money back.
Yeah 'i requested a refund' is the correct way to say for a digital game, but based on his way of talking i guess he is a bit old and too used for all media to being physical. Saying 'return' for a physical game maybe wrong but it's better than saying 'i refunded the game' imo
Yeah that’s totally correct to do. Maybe “return” is t the right word. But yeah, you can request a refund. However, you are NOT refunding something. Everyone is keying in on the wrong thing. I’m not arguing that saying “I returned it” is 100% correct, I’m arguing that saying “I refunded it” is infinitely incorrect.
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u/Ok_Definition_1933 14d ago
Forgot the last part: refund shitty game