news Epic Games Store now has a refund policy matching Steam’s

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The Epic Games Store has updated its refund policy to one matching the terms of the

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marketplace, providing for unconditional refunds of games within two weeks of purchase and less than two hours played.

The news came

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from Sergey Galyonkin, Epic’s director of publishing strategy. For pre-ordered games, the return window is until 14 days after the game’s launch date. Both the two-week timeframe and two-hour trial period are features of

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Galyonkin said Epic is in the process of developing a self-service form for filing and receiving refunds. For now, players who want their money back will have to open a ticket with Epic Games support.

Further down the Twitter thread in which he announced this,

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that the Epic Games store will one day add user reviews. However, developers will have to opt-in to having reviews of their products on the storefront. “Plus we want to have a solution against review-bombing,” he added.

The store, which launched in December, now supports a total of 130 countries in 30 different regions for regional pricing,

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. The process of adding regional currencies and listing games according to local prices will take some time, according to him; for now, they are being sold in dollars.

The refund change is not related to, but does follow the Better Business Bureau of Eastern North Carolina doling out an F rating for the Fortnite maker, based on scores of unanswered complaints lodged with the bureau. Most of those complaints involved unauthorized or improper charges, and poor response to customers resolving their accounts.

The BBB said Epic had received 279 total complaints in 2018, 247 of which had gone unanswered.

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that Epic did not respond to the BBB’s request for its side of the story here.

The Epic Games Store is just two months old, but it’s swiftly spinning up as

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, which has dominated the PC digital market for more than a decade. Epic Games started by offering a more favorable rate to developers — 88 percent for them, as opposed to the 70 percent they get on Steam. And earlier this week,

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that March 15’s Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 will launch for Windows PC on UPlay and the Epic Games Store, skipping Steam entirely.

 

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[watyermelon]

Epic games? More like Epic lames am I right?

[Ravenstorm]

UnEpic library, of like, 5 games...

Gonna take a lot more than that to compete with Steam..they think just Fornite night will carry them?!

Wild guess, but I think 90% of the people that have the EG launcher probably just got it for the free Subnautica.

[MobCat]

lol ant like 90% of the games on the epic store free right now >__< but yeah it's nice to see composition but they have a looooooogn way to go to even come close to steam

[HeavyMetalGamer]

Personally, I think with time, Epic Games Store will do alright. Granted it's not going to be better then steam, but I like how they are giving away free games too. Better then Bethesda doing their own thing, etc.

[Ravenstorm]

I will always cheer on the little companies, so good luck to them. I hope they don't bomb this year though. I NEVER liked Steam since it's creation though. Epic Games has a less offensive feel to me. I get plastered with junk games as soon as I log on to Steam now, and it loads slow, crashes, loads tons of crap in my processes that I don't even know what is, etc. Meanwhile Epic Games is only one process. Steam chat is buggy all the time ,and the new updates made it even worse. I can keep going on why I don't like Steam but it stops there.

Fortnite isn't my kinda game though, I don't like permanent death. I wanna respawn and get revenge. To each their own of course..