{"id":13646,"date":"2011-08-25T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"steam-now-offering-refunds-for-from-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/13646-steam-now-offering-refunds-for-from-dust","title":{"rendered":"Steam now offering refunds for From Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/13596-Ubisoft-patch-out-From-Dust-online-authentication-requirement.html\" target=\"_self\">disgruntled From Dust buyer<\/a>? Now&rsquo;s your chance to get that cash back.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2011\/08\/24\/steam-is-offering-refunds-for-from-dust\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rock Paper Shotgun<\/a>, Steam has officially started offering refunds for the game. Readers have contacted the site, citing the following email received from Steam:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ubisoft has just announced that they are working on a patch that will eliminate the need for any online authentication for From Dust. The patch will release in approximately two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&rsquo;t want to wait for the patch or if you haven&rsquo;t played the game, per Ubisoft&rsquo;s request, we will issue refunds for this title.<\/p>\n<p>If you would still like your purchase of From Dust refunded, please reply to this ticket.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As the email points out, Ubisoft is working on a patch to remove the controversial DRM, so maybe hang in a bit if you still want to play the game.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16924-Steam-offering-From-Dust-refunds?p=505486#post505486\" target=\"_self\"> From Dust&#8217;s DRM<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your money back, guaranteed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646","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=13646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}