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First reported by PC Gamer
Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it'

A Game Got Refunded 55,000 Times on Steam — and Its Creator Suddenly Sided With the People Who Did It

A week ago, the creator of the short co-op hit Paddle Paddle Paddle complained about a wave of refunds: out of 270,000 copies sold, players had filed around 55,000 refund requests, many of them…

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