Epic Games Store appears to offer partial refunds on games you’ve bought go on sale

If you’ve found yourself buying a game on the Epic Games Store, only to find it to go on sale soon after, it would seem that the store front will be providing partial refunds on the tiles you purchased. Studio Mayday’s founder, Joshua Boggs, tweeted about an email he had received, its contents partially shown as such:

“You recently placed orders from the Epic Games Store. The price of the game(s) you purchased were recently lowered, so we are issuing partial refunds for the difference(s).

Epic Games did previously encourage players to refund and repurchase games currently on sale they may have bought in its official refund policy, but this seems to be a more streamlined and automated way for the store to provide these partial refunds.

Joshua believes this to be a good thing, arguing that the move will be “ensuring stability in the trust of their store’s economy by encouraging people to buy without worrying if the game they’re buying will suddenly decrease in value later.”

Whatever you think of the Epic Games Store, we’ll have to see how far this policy extends to, and if Steam would want to pick up something similar in order to be able to compete.

via Kotaku

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