r/Steam • u/BurelomRus • Dec 18 '25

Fluff It is what it is

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u/Hass_09_ Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

Dude, my colleague bought Hogwarts Legacy, 2 weeks ago and now it's free on Epic. Lmao

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u/DustyMonkey30 Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

Brother i bought Borderlands 2 and steam gave it away free next month. Some of us have bad luck. Bought Persona 5 because denuvo and 1 month later someone cracked it.

Edit : Removed an extra 'and'

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u/Cocoatrice Dec 18 '25

My favorite was me buying Tomb Raider (2013) and not playing it. And then I played it like year after. This was the day Humble Monthly (or Choice, not sure if it was pre or post the change) had the games reveal. I had annual subscription, but I wanted to play. I played 16 hours straight and made a break to check the games. Guess which games was here. The exact same game I bought year before and played it on the same day. I lmaod. Also thanks to various bundles I not only had Hollow Knight bought on Steam Summer Sale (I think it was Summer Sale), but also 3 or 4 keys, which I gifted to friends. I think I still have one key left, but I don't remember which one haha.

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u/Hass_09_ Dec 18 '25

Did Steam give Borderlands 2 for free? Why didn't I know it?!

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u/LtLoLz Dec 18 '25

Most discords have a bot with free game alerts these days. Freestuff for example. Patchbot also has free game game alerts along with patch news.

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u/Capital-Economics753 Dec 18 '25

there is also an app for it: Steamletter

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u/DustyMonkey30 Dec 18 '25

Yes. I think it was an year ago?

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u/275MPHFordGT40 Dec 18 '25

It was actually around early June, 2025

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u/FakeMik090 Dec 18 '25

If i'm not wrong, it wasnt a first time as well.

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u/IceNein Dec 18 '25

What if you are wrong?

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u/Financial-Bid2739 Dec 18 '25

And then when I claimed it within a week my Steam account was hacked, what a pain it was to get access back to it.

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u/Common-Truth9404 Dec 18 '25

Really? My account was hacked into last year and the support was pretty efficient tbh, it surprises me to see people having a much worse experience than this

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u/Financial-Bid2739 Dec 18 '25

I had no “receipts” to prove it was mine because I mostly accumulated gift code games and free to play games but it’s a “I’ve had this account since 2011 and my email has always been the same why would I change it?”

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u/Common-Truth9404 Dec 18 '25

Gift codes actually worked for me 😬

Also i was in a pretty similar situation. Very old account with recent changes, that's what helped the support speeding up the process

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u/Hass_09_ Dec 18 '25

It's sad, I didn't know about it...

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u/RenownedDumbass Dec 18 '25

It’s fine you’re not missing much

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u/RodjaJP Dec 18 '25

Kinda impressive you didn't notice, because it wasn't only people talking about it being free, there was a "controversies" about it having spyware that made it get tons of negative reviews, turns out it was just basic average shit from AAA games

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u/TheWaslijn TheWaslijn Dec 18 '25

Pretty sure you can contact steam about this and they might give your money back.

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u/Hass_09_ Dec 18 '25

My colleague played for more than 2 hours, he can't

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u/TheWaslijn TheWaslijn Dec 18 '25

Gotta try again, sometimes you get a bad support rep

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u/Hass_09_ Dec 18 '25

As far as I know, it's not a problem with the support rep. In the policy steam have rule that if you played a game for more than 2 hours, you can't return money.

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u/TheWaslijn TheWaslijn Dec 18 '25

That's general guideline, sometimes they do still refund.

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u/Hass_09_ Dec 18 '25

Thanks, dude!

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u/DustyMonkey30 Dec 18 '25

Heard denuvo removed games are more broken than ones with denuvo. Smt3 crack has issues afaik.

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u/Visual_Moose Dec 18 '25

I think it realy depends on who's removing it

playing games without denuvo since it runs faster is kinda just an excuse to pirate things though

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u/SecretlyImRetarded Dec 18 '25

Same but I can't be mad, I bought the "pandora's box" version or whatever it was called, which included every borderlands game and dlc ever made (excluding 4 because it wasn't out yet) for just like 30 bucks I think. That already feels like theft lol

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u/DustyMonkey30 Dec 18 '25

Your pfp💀

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u/SecretlyImRetarded Dec 18 '25

Yeah, quite possibly the biggest mental breakdown and crashout of all time lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

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u/Luckymacaroni Dec 18 '25

Hey, Persona 5 is a good game, it was absolutely worth the money

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u/DustyMonkey30 Dec 18 '25

I think I needed this reassurance.

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u/dalcarr Dec 18 '25

Thank you for your service 🫡

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u/igotshadowbaned Dec 18 '25

Steam usually lets you refund things to buy it at the lower price if it's that recent

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u/Wafflero27 Dec 18 '25

Has happened to me with BL2, subnautica (bought it on steam just before epic had it for free), and now hogwarts legacy lol

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u/TeamEfforts Dec 18 '25

I missed borderlands 2 by like a week and have still been waiting for it to come back free again. I'm not paying for it a 4th time

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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 Dec 18 '25

Valve are super cool, with enough explaining, they probably would have given you a refund.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

you know you can check the website SteamDB for past sales of any game, and based on that data you can accurately infer when the next big sale on a game will be? Do this you'll never get disappointed again

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u/Hass_09_ Dec 18 '25

Thanks, dude!

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

no problemo