>buy game on Steam
>play it for hundreds of hours in offline mode
>refund it
What stops a person from doing this?
>steam offline
>ever working
>>336192894
Because Steam tracks the time you played on it online or offline you fucking donut
Steam still tracks your stats offline. Also there's less than hundreds of hours in two weeks.
>>336193317
>Because Steam tracks the time you played on it offline
How is that even possible?
You could just pirate it like a normal person instead
>>336193315
It's never not worked for me.
>>336193317
>stay offline
>refund it
also I've done this before don't be a dumbass who talks about things they know nothing about
Because you can only refund for two weeks?
>>336193403
Because Steam is still running when it's offline. Only if it's a non-DRM game can you run it without Steam tracking it.
>>336193364
> there's less than hundreds of hours in two weeks
??
There's 336 hours in two weeks. Even if you only played 8 hours a day, that's still over a hundred hours you could get to play it.
>>336193403
Really? Really? It's so hard to understand the program counts the hours locally?
>>336193569
What stops you from removing the tracking data?
>>336192894
>What stops a person from doing this?
Realistically, nothing, but why not just pirate? You can't refund over and over again or else they'll just see through your shit and you can only play the game for two weeks.
Or you know just pirate it if you're playing a game offline. Jesus 2016 /v/ what the fuck
>>336193569
Does it?
>>336193865
Yes
>>336193910
Thanks.
>>336193717
This.
OP is pirating while someone else is holding his cash. Fucking dumb
Two computers, keep one computer offline constantly. Tada - OP wins.
>>336193910
>remove tracking data
>>336192894
For one thing, 14 days is only over 300 hours. Doubt you'll play it for that long. If you loved vidya that much and played it that much, you would keep it.
>>336193317
How the fuck is steam going to know how long you played it if you don't connect to the internet/don't allow your computer to communicate with steam servers for that time?
>>336194151
You could also just pirate
OP could also just get a job.
>>336194157
>remove trip
>>336194216
you can't buy love
>>336192894
because it's easier to just pirate the game than going through the refund process and potentially getting blacklisted after blatantly abusing it.
How does Steam still run if you aren't connected?
I want to fuck that Unikitty.
>>336192894
b/c pirating is easier
>>336194626
Simple: you booted up a local version to access your library. If you can do that, it can track something as simple as "hours played."
>>336193364
It doesn't track your time played while offline, though.
Source: only have internet once every few days, Steam only tracks my time while online. This has led to me seeming like I spend only a third of my entire life playing video games instead of all of it.
>>336194626
Offline mode
>>336194283
steam's gotta sync eventually
or do you just reinstall every two weeks when you return the games you've been playing offline
>>336194626
The same. You just can't access anything that obviously requires online like the store, downloads, or community. Also I think it can only be offline for like two months or something.
holy shit I hope OP is trolling and isn't really this stupid
>buy game
>don't play it or even touch my computer for a week
>return it
Your move, Valve.
>>336192894
>download a game on thepiratebay
>play it forever without ever paying
What stops a person from doing this? Oh yeah, some dumbasses who think they're smart by using a refund loophole on Steam.
>>336192894
Steam keeps track of your offline played time. It didn't used to, but once they started doing refund shit it does. You could avoid this entirely (And even keep the game) if the game is DRM-free, but a lot of modern games on Steam aren't since they don't want you to do that and even for the non-malicious reasons of Steam integration (Achievements, leaderboards, cloud saves, etc).
Even if it had Steam DRM you could theoretically buy a game , go to offline mode, play it all you want, refund it via Steam on your phone/browser, and leave the Steam program in offline mode until the refund goes through. Valve still might notice whenever your account goes online that your playtime suddenly jumped from 0.3 hours to 300 hours, and they absolutely can ban you from future refunds (People have even gotten warnings for being goddamn idiots and buying tons of garbage and doing the 2 hour return multiple times a week) but IF they do is up in the air.
Or you could just pirate it normally if you're going to be a poorfag.
>buy game
>have to upgrade computer for it to run
>more than 2 weeks later (in which time the game ceases development)
>takes more than 2 hours to figure it out and get started
>turns out it's shitty
>try and refund
>"sorry, you've played this game for over 2 hours and owned it for more than 2 weeks"
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>buy game
>constantly crashes and missing lots of content that the last version of the game had
>play it, report bugs, make suggestions, etc.
>eventually the developer flips everyone off and leaves because he wasn't rolling in money already
>hate-refund
>"sorry, you've played this game for over 2 hours and owned it for more than 2 weeks"
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>336195774
Sounds like you're just a retard who doesn't research games at all before buying them.
>>336194151
>spend a ton of money on a second computer in order to avoid spending much smaller amounts on some games
okay
Unikitty is best.
>>336192894
I want to fuck that thing
>>336198241
You'd have to get through her dad, first.
>>336193317
Couldn't you just download it, play it offline on one computer and then refund it on another computer before reconnecting to the internet on the first computer?
If what you say is the case anyways.
>>336192894
Here's what you do, i do this all the time and works for most of it
>buy steam game
>Refund it immediately after downloading and playing once, say its shit or something
>go into game files in steam folder
>open the .exe
>checkmate
(do note that some games wont work doing that such as Garrys Mod)
