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JEMC said:

Australian court reaffirms that Valve misled gamers, $2.3 million fine upheld
http://www.pcgamer.com/australian-court-reaffirms-that-valve-misled-gamers-23-million-fine-upheld/
Back in 2014, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission filed a lawsuit against Valve, alleging that the lack of a refund policy on Steam was in violation of the country's consumer protection laws. The ACCC ultimately won the case, resulting in $AU3 million ($2.3 million) fine levied against Valve. Valve appealed, as one does, but that didn't work out either.
"The Full Court found Valve carried on business in Australia, and was therefore bound by the Australian Consumer Law in its dealings with customers here," ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said in a statement. "The Full Court also upheld the finding that Valve made misleading representations about consumer guarantees and that certain terms and conditions in the Steam subscriber agreements and refund policies were false or misleading."

Completely expected. Australian law tends to side with consumers rather than big business, if anything the fine was to small.
EA did the same thing with Origin and said "no" to providing me with a refund once.
Ombudsman not only ended up giving them a small fine, but they used my situation in the case they were building and I got my damn refund.

JEMC said:

New Jurassic World Evolution in-engine trailer shows off dinosaurs, reveals Summer 2018 release date
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-jurassic-world-evolution-in-engine-trailer-shows-off-dinosaurs-reveals-summer-2018-release-date/
Frontier has released a new in-engine trailer for its upcoming park building game based on the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World Evolution, showing off some of the dinosaurs that will be featured in it.

Please be good. Please be good. Please be good. And please don't be a Microtransaction wank fest, otherwise I will just play Operation Genesis instead...

Chazore said:

No, I don't mean bending the rules and simply opening the floodgates for asset flippers. I was on about them trying to bend their primary "DRM free" rule and trying to get some of those AAA games that are only on Steam, that the other clients willingly ignore. 

 

I absolutely do not want any of the other clients supporting asset flipping devs. 

Asset flippers need to die.

But, I would not want Gog.com to change it's DRM free rule. DRM sucks and they are fighting the good fight for the consumer.