A bit off-topic but are the steam leaderboards only for scores or are there some games which use them for best run time? (meaning the steam leaderboards, not some 3rd party board programmed in the game)

that was pretty damn funny.

That depends entirely on the game. The Witcher 1 doesn't have a leaderboard but Dustforce does.

For the devs that said something along the lines of (paraphrasing): "if you don't like our game, we don't want your money". Kudos and plus one. But I don't think this issue is really on the devs. I like that mentality and there are certainly some dishonest devs who feel entitled to consumer money... but this issue leans more to the consumer.

For my part, the only reason I would ever even think of a refund is if the game was broken. It simply didn't work. That is on the devs. With screenshots, videos, wikis, lets play, you tube, twitch, forums, demos.... there is very little excuse for a gamer to buy a game and not know what to expect. I'm going to claim a very large part of the issue is entitled gamers throwing money around completely uninformed... and that is on them, the gamer. And I don't believe they deserve their money back.

Where I see refunds being a huge deal is on day 1 releases. Many folks have sworn off pre-orders and day 1 sales due to being burned in the past. With the comfort of a refund, I see a mass return of people who buy and keep their finger on the refund trigger just waiting for the slightest infraction. If a dev over sells and under promises... bandwagoners will potentially follow the hype and cash their games back in. I see this as the biggest issue and the cause/effect could be that the lesser honest devs will find ways to fix the refund issue rather than make better games.

All in all, honest devs have nothing to worry about. Honest gamers have nothing to worry about. For everyone else, I can see why there is concern.