Refund or Reimburse?

EUTony

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• Jun 20, 2013

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I just bought the base game, AHD, and HoD for $50 two days ago. It goes on sale today in Steam(with the rest of paradox stuff) for $25. Is there any way I could be reimbursed? Don't get me wrong, I love Paradox, but I really feel pretty low down right now. That's $25 I was going to devote to preordering EU4!

It would really be nice if Steam or Paradox could inform us of upcoming sales with a little advance so things like this don't happen.

 

Last edited: Jun 20, 2013

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• Jun 20, 2013

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Unless you bought it through Paradox, you should contact the retailer.

 

EUTony

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• Jun 20, 2013

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Yeah, I put up a Steam support thing. Hopefully I can get $25 in my Steam Wallet to put towards EU4.

 

PEP

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• Jun 20, 2013

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I don't see how that's ever gonna happen honestly. If they start refunding people because of missed promotional offers what's the point of promotional offers at all? Keep us updated on your progress though, I'd love to be proved wrong.

 

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• Jun 20, 2013

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PEP said:

I don't see how that's ever gonna happen honestly. If they start refunding people because of missed promotional offers what's the point of promotional offers at all? Keep us updated on your progress though, I'd love to be proved wrong.

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It would have been nice to have a heads up on the sale, that's really what I'm disappointed about. I'll keep you updated.

 

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• Jun 20, 2013

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Thanks for letting me know there's a sale going on. Just got HoD and waiting pays off, literally.

 

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• Jun 20, 2013

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Robotkiller said:

Thanks for letting me know there's a sale going on. Just got HoD and waiting pays off, literally.

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Way to rub it in. lol This was largely an impulse buy on my part. I had $50 lying around and had never played a Victoria game so I decided to purchase it. If I had known about a sale in less than two days, I would have waited and saved $25 to go towards EU4.

 

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• Jun 21, 2013

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I almost went to buy it earlier this week, but I figured a sale could be coming sometime soon.

 

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• Jun 21, 2013

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Not much you can do to change that. All you can do is learn from this mistake so next time you wouldn't repeat it. It's only 25 bucks too, just think that in the future, your extra care & patience that you learned from this now would give you a net benefit for money saved.

 

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• Jun 21, 2013

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It's called price discrimination. If you didn't value the purchase of the game at $50, then you would've waited for a sale to give you a cheaper option. Steam wants everyone who is willing to pay $50 to pay that $50 to fatten their profits (and those of the publishers that distribute through them), so they are unlikely to announce an upcoming sale which is only intended to pull in the people willing to pay $25-$49, not $50+.

 

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• Jun 21, 2013

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Tough luck but I doubt you will get a reimbursement. I mean the sales are supposed to be surprises to reward people who check steam regularly so advertising them in advance would just increase the amount of people who take advantage of the sale. Plus it's not like they really have to have these massive sales at all so a developer offering half off of multiple big title games and DLC is a pretty big gift by itself. Esspecially giving the large amount of DLC for games like Crusader Kings.

 

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• Jun 21, 2013

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Two days ago you valued the game at $50, now you do not? What has changed?
In any case, if you bought it on Steam they are the ones you should be contacting as Paradox has no say in how Steam does business.

 

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EUTony

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• Jun 21, 2013

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Chranny said:

Two days ago you valued the game at $50, now you do not? What has changed?
In any case, if you bought it on Steam they are the ones you should be contacting as Paradox has no say in how Steam does business.

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It was an impulse buy, I had $50 left over as a gift and figured I should try out Vicky 2.

 

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• Jun 21, 2013

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ALWAYS WAIT FOR SALES! I understand impulse buys with found money, I make em too; but I always look for the sales! Companies can not be expected to give people money back on something just cause they bought it a day before a sale. With Steam they don't really ever say what upcoming sales are, but they have new ones every week. Same with Gamersgate and other similiar sights. I picked up Vicky 2 and AHD for a total of $7 by biding my time and being patient.

Generally my rule is that I NEVER EVER buy a game for full price. Within 2-3 months of being released most games will go on sale, even if only 10%, it depends on how well it sold. If it sold poorly expect the price to drop more rapidly and/or it will get good sales. If it sold well the full price will stick around for a while longer and the sales won't be as spectacular. I tend to only ever pay full price for expantions as obviously those are wanted right away, as its an addtion to a game I already have as opposed to waiting for one I don't have yet. Although there are always exceptions (Skyrim, Starcraft 2 last two I bought brand new full price).

Shit $50 could knock like 8 things off my Steam wishlist during various sales.

 

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• Jun 21, 2013

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Thank you, been waiting forever for a sale.

What is the point of a wishlist when they don't tell you those games are on sale.

 

PEP

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• Jun 21, 2013

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They do. I just received a mail about Riptide and a few other things. No mail means no discount on games in your wishlist.

 

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• Jun 21, 2013

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Even if they told us about upcoming sales, you might have already bought a game just before the announcement...