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> GoG does not offer refunds, no-questions-asked.

I thought they actually started offering them as of recently?

But regardless, you can see why refunds are much harder for GoG—it goes part-in-parcel with being DRM-Free. Valve can remove games from your account and render (most of) them impossible to play. GoG, by contrast, can't really "take back" a DRM-Free executable once you've downloaded it.

Even before Steam allowed refunds, GoG had a 30-day no-questions-asked exchange policy for any game you'd purchased but hadn't actually downloaded. Sadly, this isn't particularly useful, but it's also the one situation where GoG can actually "reclaim" the returned item.




> I thought they actually started offering them as of recently?

Indeed they do. Support will try to give you credit instead so you need to be insistent on getting your actual money back.




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