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The Day Before Sold 200k Units, With 91k Refunds On The Same Day (gamevro.com)

submitted 11 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] dracs@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I saw someone say that Valve holds back a portion of the revenue to cover potential refunds. If that's true, I wonder if that's calculated dynamically as it sounds like this is a higher than normal refund rate.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

With as fast as this happened, Valve likely didn't even cut the first check yet.