Steam is notorious for giving you little control over purchases and refunds but it looks like they’ve taken a step in the right direction by giving users the ability to cancel pre-orders without any Valve intervention.
Spotted by Steam users, there is now a link by your pre-order transactions list to receive a refund.
While it’s at least a positive move, has it arrive too late to matter?
Pre-0rders are now becoming less important to PC gamers, unless it comes with some free extras or bonus DLC that’s a must-have. This new option on Steam looks to be solving a problem that is no longer urgent or that important to Steam users.
More games  are now using the Early Access system to allow gamers to effectively “pre-order” and play a game right a way. Due to the nature of Early Access funding the development that’s still in progress and gamers aware (we hope) that the game is in no way finished, a refund option is likely never to appear for anything in Early Access.
What ever happened to demos? They did actually serve a purpose and a few developers on Steam still release them. Why not bring back the good old game demo before a game’s released?
Actually that won’t happen. A demo may just reveal a game’s flaws and then nobody would buy it. It would have stopped Aliens Colonial Marines selling any copies though which would have been a good thing for everyone.
Thanks Valvetime
