🚀 go-pugleaf

I think this sort of thing change by Valve is good for gaming in
general.  I'd really rather see some hefty legal fines for fradulent
advertisement, but this is a step in the right direction.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/238888-valve-crack-fake-screenshots-steam

The gaming industry has seemed to have some sort of immunity with
regard to fair commerce practices for a very long time.

Think about "trailers" for example.  With a movie trailer, you are
seeing clips from the actual film, the marketing benefit being that
the clips were strategically chosen and edited from the actual footage
in a way that supports advertising goals.  But with games, the
trailers that are released might show actual gameplay or they might
not.  They might be cinematic clips of things that are aligned with
the general theme or story of the game, but might not be present in
the game itself.  And then there's the fact that gameplay footage is,
sometimes shown as pre-rendered footage, at times showing a
combination of visual detail and framerate performance that is not
even possible on the fastest hardware available.  It's a bit like
providing free audio clips from an upcoming music album that are clips
of songs other than those on the actual album, or that have been mixed
and mastered with better quality/fidelity than what is actually
available for purchase.

The refund policies being offered now by Steam, Origin etc. are a step
in the right direction, but in some games it may not become clear that
the game was misrepresented until long after the normal refund time
window has expired.