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Andy Chalk

Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it'

Paddle Paddle Paddle screen - two guys sitting side by side on a giant hot dog, holding paddles, staring at a floating gold nugget.

Developer Mateo Covic, who went viral for complaining that thousands of people had refunded his game after finishing it in less than two hours, says he's not actually unhappy about the number of refunds or money he lost, or even Steam's policy in general—he was merely expressing frustration with players who "bragged about having a fun time with the game and refunding it after completion."

Covic is the solo dev of Paddle Paddle Paddle, sort of a very-low-budget Split Fiction. He got the ball rolling over the weekend when he shared an image of a one-line Steam review stating, "Great game, finished within 1:40 hrs (refunded)."

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