{"id":11708,"date":"2011-05-12T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"unhappy-gamer-gets-brink-refund-from-steam-lol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/11708-unhappy-gamer-gets-brink-refund-from-steam-lol","title":{"rendered":"Unhappy gamer gets Brink refund from Steam [LOL]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proving, perhaps, that being reasonable and polite (and somewhat flattering) will get you everything you want, some guy emailed Steam&rsquo;s customer service asking for a refund of the &ldquo;terribly buggy&rdquo; Brink, and got it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Having been a loyal customer for 4 years, purchased many many games, and recall seeing quite a few posts on Reddit of the Legendary Valve Generosity&trade;, I was wondering I could use my 1 Favor from Valve&trade;. I have been playing Brink for about an hour and it is terribly buggy (performance is awful and no sound). As I have no more money in my gaming budget for awhile, I would like to redeem, if at all possible, my 1 Favor from Valve&trade; and get a refund on Brink (I intend to repurchase it later when it is all patched) so I can buy a couple of indie games like Monday Night Combat, Magicka, Nation Red, and possibly Amnesia: DD if I can find where I dropped my balls,&rdquo; wrote Valve Lover&trade; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gaming\/comments\/h932l\/valves_customer_service_is_amazing_as_usual_stay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And &ndash; shazam! &ndash; it totally worked.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As requested,&rdquo; Support Tech Joey replied, &ldquo;the title has been removed from your account and a credit has been applied to your Steam Wallet. The credit can be used for future Steam purchases.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, sniff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Valve_is_awesome_783616232.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"599\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/13320-Guy-complains-that-Brink-is-buggy-and-crap-gets-Steam-refund?p=416530#post416530\" target=\"_self\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Discuss how much you love\/hate Steam<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in the forums.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve &lt;3 U<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}