How is the principle different?
You paid for the product. You used the product. You didn't dislike the product so much that you didn't finish it. Seems pretty analogous to me.
Things being different doesn't automatically make them incomparable, this is literally how all analogies work.
I don't think that's a good reason for a refund, honestly. If you go to a restaurant or a movie, most places won't give you your money back if you finished the meal or movie. If you finished it, you should pay for it... if it really is so bad you feel you should get your money back on principle, you know before the end of the meal/film. This just feels like an excuse to be a cheapskate.
I know this is gonna sound like petty old guy complaints, but by God the save file sizes can be ridiculous! I have a smallish system drive that's just for the OS, mainly, and have games and media installed on a few other chunky ones. I never bothered changing save file locations, because... save files, they don't take up that much space, I've still got ~40GB or so to spare on the system drive, may as well leave it. Flash forward a few months after 3 of us have been playing Baldur's Gate 3 and I'm getting errors because there isn't enough room on the system drive. Take a look on TreeSize for the culprit, and there's BG3 taking up over 20GB of save files!
I get that it's ultimately on me for not managing files better, but I honestly never even thought of save files eating up tens of GB of storage.
Literally in the last month or so Windows pushed an update that messed up the BitLocker check and locked a ton of company laptops . I'd point out this was also a major security update.
But at least we agree updating for the sake of updating is bad policy on any software if you care about stability, so we can set that argument aside now, yes?
For this new argument you've moved to: Distro hopping is for fun for people who like tinkering with computers. You wouldn't get it. It's not for everyone, plenty of people just pick a long term support release and call it day.
As opposed to forcing updates that break basic functionality?
Anyway, it's certainly not common to do no upgrading, just not mindlessly pushing every single new release when you don't need it (ie, not a major security fix or something). Which is a good thing if you value stability in your system, no matter what software you're running. The ones dealing with the BitLocker locked company laptops right now after the last Windows update kerfuffle could probably tell you all about it. It's a lesson hard won by neophyte system admins.
One thing about it, the game feels so different whether you're playing the stealthy, slow, hack and snipe type or the balls out melee build or whatever in between. They really got the mechanics dialed in by the end, it's nice to be able to have such different experiences in actual gameplay.
Lots of reasons today, but I started out of necessity: a poor kid that couldn't buy new hardware, much less a windows license. Discovered the magic when I picked up a little pre-Chromebook XP mini laptop that the person gave me for $20 because it just couldn't run usably with windows' overhead. Put one of the light Ubuntu distros on it, and damned if that little thing didn't get me through college.
Honestly stoked a real passion for how Linux can be a really effective way to repurpose what would otherwise be e-waste and get it to people who otherwise wouldn't be able to really get into technology all with an opportunity to learn how the machine works.
I'm likely relocating soon, but I've really considered afterwards setting up a local non profit dedicated to flipping old machines like that to get them into poor kids' hands, maybe even with pipelines into basic Linux/terminal learning, security basics, programming, etc for those that show an interest.
Full ninja builds are a blast. I went pure swords and throwing knives. Double jump + air dash along with Shinobi sprint and the auto cloaking perk while crouch sprinting + the relic perk that breaks combat when you cloak makes you a ridiculously mobile hit and run machine. Your mitigation by the end when mid air is guaranteed at 90% strength, so you're taking nearly no damage as you leap into combat. Pop your sandy, slice and dice, Shinobi sprint back out. It almost trivializes a lot of the game, but it's some of the most fun I've had in a combat game in a long time.
Or if you prefer guns, all that mid air mitigation and air dashing + air kerenzikov is deadly.
Generally time slows when you're targeting something in scan mode. If there's nothing to target near the reticle, time moves normal.
It can be a little finicky detecting sometimes.
What do you mean by memory stuff? The brain dance investigations?
Don't sweat it and just use a guide, they aren't really a major part of the game beyond maybe 3 story missions?
If you mean hacking, just go with a sandevistan no hacking melee build. The game feels very different when you play it as a pure (no) hack n slash.
The perk and cyberware combos that let you have near constant ~90% mitigation strength guaranteed midair is just nuts. Throw in the mid air kerenzikov and you're practically a little flying angry cyber hornet.
If the game itself was enjoyable enough that you kept playing it, that doesn't reach the threshold of "so bad you feel you should get your money back on principle" imo. Would you really expect your money back from a movie just because you didn't like the ending? That's wild to me.
Not to the point of deserving a refund, totally disagree. At what point do you draw a line? Should someone who hated the Game of Thrones ending get a refund for the years of subscription they paid to watch the rest of the show?
I don't think not liking a piece of media you bought as much as you thought you would deserves a refund when you've already consumed all or nearly all of the media. You've received a service and used a product at that point, you should pay for it.