Valve says the time it takes to download Microsoft Flight Simulator won't
affect refund requests
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Downloading Microsoft Flight Simulator takes a while: It's a hefty game
weighing in at around 127 GB. The Steam download is only a 532MB client,
though. The bulk of the game is installed as an 'update' from within the game
menu.
While the game client is open, the 'hours played' clock on Steam begins
ticking. That means that even when all you're doing is downloading the games
files, you're racking up minutes or hours of 'play time.'
Steam's policy lets you refund a game with fewer than two hours played, but
for most people it takes more than two hours to download the game. So, some
worried that if they wanted to request a refund of Microsoft Flight Simulator
on Steam for whatever reason, their request would be automatically rejected
simply because Steam thinks they've actually played it for more than two
hours.
We asked Valve about the issue, and VP of Marketing Doug Lombardi replied.
"The time it takes your machine to download the additional content will not
be counted against the Steam Refund Policy," he wrote in an email.
"We are working with Microsoft to see if we can improve the download
experience," Lombardi also told us, though he didn't elaborate further.
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简单来说，微软模拟飞行这游戏在Steam下载的大概只有500MB的微软客户端，剩下的
127GB要进游戏从以更新的方式下载下来。
而这结果是多数都会超过两小时，这就超过Steam退款时限了。 (购买后14天内玩不到2小
时。)
PCGamer去问Valve这问题，Valve表示下载其它内容的时间不会计入游玩时间内，同时他们
也在和微软合作看能不能改善下载问题。