>>15633085
I have no idea why you're this happy.
If you didn't wanted to pay for videogames, you always had piracy to begin with after all, something that can easily give you a better version often too.
If you just want to "stick it to the man" however, this is retarded beyond belief. It's a simple equation for Steam: how much money does the Australian Market make vs the amount we spend on refunds? If the first doesn't outweight the second, it's pointless to sell games on Australia and they'll just block the country from their client.
Now consider that refunds cost in the personel dealing with them and possibly in credibility with the bank if they are doing chargebacks, so even with a profit, it might not be worth the trouble.
If what you wanted was for Steam to stop selling on Aussie land, that's what you'd get. But then you'd be stuck with piracy anyway, which you could have done from the start.
There's actually more grim options down the line too.
You see that line "fit for all the purposes for which video games of that kind are commonly supplied"? Well, what does that mean when we are talking multiplayer games and the mythical aussie ping?
It means blocking off the australian population to australian servers only for any multiplayer videogame that uses Steam as a master server.
Or it could mean blocking the sale of multiplayer videogames from Steam that use it for their master server, so you're stuck with singleplayer only. And seeing how one of the reasons to buy games is the multiplayer itself, not even piracy helps here.
So let's recap, what are you actually getting here?
You're getting a form of piracy that's less reliable, prone to fail in the future, requires extra hoops to actually work and starting cash to begin with. Seriously, you're better off getting a magnet link to whatever game you were thinking of buying if you're just gonna refund it anyway.
You're also incentivizing the segregation of Australia away from multiplayer games , which is possibly the only good thing you'd achieve and everyone else in the world would be thankfull for. Probably not a good thing for you however.
Finnaly, you're sabotaging an online retailer to the point that they may stop operating in your country. If you think Steam is so shitty it deserves that, you wouldn't be buying games from them in the first place. But if you simply want a better online retail store, I fail to see how killing competition will make it any better. Have fun getting shit from Humble Bundle, I suppose.