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The game's executable immediately exits out when I try to start it, as I watched happen in Task Manager. No loading screen, no error message, nothing. It simply doesn't run and immediately closes. I was not able to find any means of remedying this situation on Google or Steam forums or whatever.
(EDIT) Apparently may have something to do with requiring AVX, which I'm pretty sure my 10+ year old CPU doesn't support. Even so, you'd think they would at least have something that detects this condition and pops up an error message letting the user know that that's the case, if that's the case, rather than just have the goddamned thing instantly crash to desktop, but what do I know.
In any case, I guess that's just yet another thing to have to keep an eye out for before buying games in the future. What a load of horseshit. (/EDIT)
And I know Steam has that bullshit "less than two hours and less than 14 days from purchase" policy, so I might not get a refund. Probably won't. I'm certainly within the less than two hours bit, as Steam says I have 1 minute of runtime for the game. However, I bought the game back in June, even though I only just today tried to install it and play it for the first time. I'm not very hopeful that the refund will go through, because, you know, Steam customer support and all that, but I figured I might as well try anyway, regardless. I guess we'll see how this goes. If it doesn't go through, then oh well. I should still have the game on my account, in that case, and I can maybe try to play it again someday in the nebulous future, if I ever upgrade my computer or buy/build a new one at some point. *weary sigh* (EDIT 2) Or, you know, I may not even bother, actually. Death Stranding was already on thin ice with me when they initially included that Denuvo dogshit, and now this... I might just write Death Stranding off as a loss entirely, and (assuming the refund fails) have it end up as one of the many other games on my Steam game list that I'll probably never get around to playing, for whatever reasons. (/EDIT 2)
(EDIT 3)
"Hello Kane_Magus
We will not be granting a refund at this time. The date of the purchase exceeds 2 weeks (our refund policy maximum)."
And that's that. Wasn't expecting much. Oh well. At least I bought the game at a pretty steep sale, so I'm not out much.
Also, damn, they were pretty quick on that denial, there. I would bet that a human's eyes never even saw the refund request.
(/EDIT 3)
(EDIT) Apparently may have something to do with requiring AVX, which I'm pretty sure my 10+ year old CPU doesn't support. Even so, you'd think they would at least have something that detects this condition and pops up an error message letting the user know that that's the case, if that's the case, rather than just have the goddamned thing instantly crash to desktop, but what do I know.
In any case, I guess that's just yet another thing to have to keep an eye out for before buying games in the future. What a load of horseshit. (/EDIT)
And I know Steam has that bullshit "less than two hours and less than 14 days from purchase" policy, so I might not get a refund. Probably won't. I'm certainly within the less than two hours bit, as Steam says I have 1 minute of runtime for the game. However, I bought the game back in June, even though I only just today tried to install it and play it for the first time. I'm not very hopeful that the refund will go through, because, you know, Steam customer support and all that, but I figured I might as well try anyway, regardless. I guess we'll see how this goes. If it doesn't go through, then oh well. I should still have the game on my account, in that case, and I can maybe try to play it again someday in the nebulous future, if I ever upgrade my computer or buy/build a new one at some point. *weary sigh* (EDIT 2) Or, you know, I may not even bother, actually. Death Stranding was already on thin ice with me when they initially included that Denuvo dogshit, and now this... I might just write Death Stranding off as a loss entirely, and (assuming the refund fails) have it end up as one of the many other games on my Steam game list that I'll probably never get around to playing, for whatever reasons. (/EDIT 2)
(EDIT 3)
"Hello Kane_Magus
We will not be granting a refund at this time. The date of the purchase exceeds 2 weeks (our refund policy maximum)."
And that's that. Wasn't expecting much. Oh well. At least I bought the game at a pretty steep sale, so I'm not out much.
Also, damn, they were pretty quick on that denial, there. I would bet that a human's eyes never even saw the refund request.
(/EDIT 3)
