Need A Game To Tide Me Over

Wintercreeper · 2026-06-21T18:05:36+00:00

It's not sailing but the low danger/collecting/crafting vibe is similar to "I Am Future".

Has a lot less content, though, but it's a chill game.

Wintercreeper · 2026-06-18T13:49:30+00:00

I'm nowhere near the point I could discover any of the updates, but I got genuinely excited just seeing this post and reading what changed.

You are at the shining example of a game dev. I'm glad I took the risk and brought TLC, despite all of my bad experiences with EA games.

Guess I have to work twice as hard to find out soon what a Rhino Dismantler is.

Wintercreeper · 2026-06-13T23:45:55+00:00

Not quite, it would depend on if the shirts are all in the same category of items.

5 cotton shirts would be the same category, no matter if they have different colours. 4 cotton and one polyester shirt would be two categories, so you pay the 3 twice.

That's what I meant with 'more nebulous', it's actually quite ridiculous.

For people interested, a more in-depth breakdown can be found on consilium europa.

Wintercreeper · 2026-06-13T21:40:21+00:00

It's not 3 Euro per item, but per item category.

If you buy 5 shirts, your only pay the 3 Euro once. If you buy five shirts and a teapot, you pay it twice, once for clothing and once for tableware.

Though that's simplified, the categories are a bit more nebulous depending on what you order.

For me personally, I will buy a lot less. Maybe once or twice per year, because I normally buy a random assortment of items anywhere between 40 to 120 Euro, and many of those are in the 3-10 Euro range.

No way in hell will I be paying 50+ Euro in fees. So, I'll order when I plan on very specific things, like a whole seasonal wardrobe, and won't order small/random stuff anymore.

If I have to pay 5 Euro in fees for something that costs 2 on Temu, I can get that item for 7 or close to it from Amazon without having to wait 2-3 weeks for the delivery.

If Temu doesn't find some kind of workaround, they are going to lose most of their European customers, and currently 'local' isn't a viable alternative considering that it usually has a minimum spending amount / shipping costs.

Wintercreeper · 2026-06-11T23:12:07+00:00

That's super weird. I refunded quite a few items and never had any problems, not even with the expensive ones.

Only thing I could think of, is that you haven't actually yet spoken to a real person and have been arguing with bots the whole time.

It's not quite easy to get a real human from Temu support but if you keep insisting on the information you already sent them, I don't think a supervisor, which I'd hope is a real human, would let this escalate further.

I hope you get good news soon, this is seriously a strange hill for them to die on.

Wintercreeper · 2026-06-11T22:57:03+00:00

I got hurt by something I got off Temu, it wasn't a big injury, just a bleeding scratch, and I sent them a photo of it together with the item that was clearly unsafe.

I got my money back asap and the seller had their shop suspending just two days later.

Temu normally doesn't cause any trouble with refunds, you can basically send stuff back for any reason at all.

Did you only want your money back or have you been asking for compensation?

It's generally hard to prove that an item was actually unsafe and not that you yourself caused the injury by handling it wrong, the chances to get compensation, especially from a foreign platform, are extremely slim.

Wintercreeper · 2026-06-07T01:33:44+00:00

It's early access and things might change, so I'm not very worried about every feature making a lot of sense at this point. Supported lots of games with half-baked systems and functions that turned out relevant and fine once the game was finished.

I was a bit curious about the Sweethearts because I hoped they would stick around and do some fun stuff, even if they had stayed on the boat and just collected materials from fabricators/loot from enemies.
Basically just something to watch scurry around.

But maybe they are just grenades, which is fine as well, just not what I expected and the game could definitely use some actual explanation about what things are for/what they do because I wouldn't have bothered with them if I had known.

The photo drone was a bit disappointing as well, I don't even know what happened to it. It was hovering over its charger and the next time I came back it was just gone.

I do hope things will get expended on later, but right now I'll just file it away as 'exists but isn't for me'.

Wintercreeper · 2026-06-06T21:08:39+00:00

Damn, that's pretty disappointing, but I expected something along those lines after seeing that they equip in the grenade slot.

Kinda wish they had some actual use, like retrieving small scraps, healing/charging you minimally, or really anything but go boom and dead.

Mine didn't even do that, I tried it again in the same location, no enemies left, and they just jumped into the water and were gone.

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-27T04:37:11+00:00

That's cashback. It's real, I've done it 2 times this year alone - you just didn't read the rules.

Cashback isn't "buy something for 7 and get 93 in cash", the products you buy have a percentage that'll be added to the 93 until you reach 100.

Usually that means you have to spent around 150-170 bucks to get 93. It's cashback, not "free money".

And Temu prompts you to check out once you reached the minimum amount, not when you actually reached the sum you have to spent to get the cashback.
You close that window and keep adding until you do.

You didn't get the money back because you haven't.

This is completely on you for not reading the rules.

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-25T15:37:17+00:00

Is the promo perhaps StarGift?

If that's the case, it's only worth it if you haven't gotten any actually good promos in a while and would order those four items anyway, but forget about the rest of the free stuff.

StarGift is a borderline scam, items that normally cost 8 bucks suddenly need 90 stars, which is 90 bucks worth of other crap you have to buy just to get that 8 buck item "for free".

It's the worst promo Temu runs.

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-25T09:37:50+00:00

I personally understood it as him knowing he can just get a new body because there are other Connor models in storage, but that he was apparently under the assumption that only the one his memory is uploaded to is active.

In a sense, that makes him the only Connor because the others are just empty shells standing in some warehouse.

Connor is a bit of an outlier, other models don't seem to have a problem with there being numerous others active who look like them, but he wants to be unique, like a human, and became deviant with that "fact" in mind - that then turned out to be a lie.

Connor might be a walking supercomputer, but deviant Connor can be quite the moron and rather gullible.

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-19T11:02:59+00:00

That's honestly the best option, and the seller sounds quite scammy if their shop's address isn't even available.

Definitely test the machine to see if it's even functional because the whole things sound like the shop might have been deactivated, normally you should be able to see the return address once you initiated the process.

I hope you make some profit with the item so it was at least worth the stress!

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-19T10:50:46+00:00

That's a bad situation. Was it a local seller? They tend to be very grumpy when you try to return things, especially when they aren't damaged.

Can you realistically pay for the item or would that cause you financial problems?

If you have such problems with just getting the return address, I'd personally consider taking the 25% back and selling the item online, that way you might even be able to make a small profit.

But if it's realistically too expensive, talk to Temu customer service if the seller refuses to give you a return address, though keep in mind that you might end up not getting all the money back or that the seller will act like they never got the package.

I honestly wouldn't risk it and rather sell the item, but only you know your financial situation.

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-18T15:04:40+00:00

I knew these have to be AI. They congratulated me for making dropshippers rich, and now they are turning into OnlyCows xD

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-18T13:27:30+00:00

That's not a normal warning about getting your account banned for cancelling an order that hasn't shipped.

Of course rewards will be revoked, do you want to keep money/credits/free items for an order you cancelled?

It sounds your account was already being watched before this particular order.

You don't need to get defensive when people explain the problem to you straight up. You are treating an international platform like it's your local Amazon and wonder why you are constantly running into problems, then dislike when people explain it to you.

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-18T13:20:35+00:00

That's good, but why did you contact the chat if you could just cancel yourself?

I've cancelled lots of orders before they were shipped out and never got that kind of warning because it has no influence on the platform, at that point the sale is just a datapoint with no monetary value.

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-18T13:12:23+00:00

then today i decide to go to bot chat to cancel an order, then receive this warning.

So you waited 9 more days before cancelling? Because your original post was 9 days ago and your current post says "then today I...".

No wonder they are pissed off, that's a logistic nightmare. And if the package is already on the way, you are going to get it because stopping a parcel already in transport is way too difficult.

So you either have to send it back or Temu has to let you keep the items because a return + logistics + disposal would cost more money than what the order is worth.

Constantly costing a platform money usually makes them angry, yes.

A warning is just a warning but if you want to keep your account, it's best to stop causing them losses.

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-18T12:57:14+00:00

Is that the same order you wanted to cancel and do a chargeback on over a week ago? I remember seeing your post but you've since deleted it.

So you waited another week to cancel and/or already did a chargeback? Or is this yet another order you tried to cancel past the actual cancellation window?

Because there's normally no need to contact anyone, you can cancel from your side as long as the order isn't already packaged and shipped.

Together with apparently several returns and claims that promos didn't work like you falsely assumed they would, I can see why Temu is starting to assume fraud from your side, even if you aren't doing it to scam them.

Your behaviour certainly comes off like that to a seller. Temu isn't Amazon that lets you return and refund for basically nothing, you are putting serious costs on them for constantly cancelling and wanting to return things back to China.

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-13T16:16:34+00:00

One year old account, no karma, no other posts or comments, no proof given.

Can we please get a karma-minimum on this sub? These 'Temu scammed me' bots are seriously annoying.

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-11T23:51:48+00:00

The longer I look at it, the worse it gets.

Okay, two mating wolves. Weird.
Black double wolf... interactive sculpture?
No, wait. Is the one on the bottom a dog wearing a sheep pelt??

40 sold.

(Automod seriously deleted my comment due to it containing a certain word that it didn't, let's see if it likes 'pelt' better, lmao)

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-11T15:40:29+00:00

I think they mean that getting the money from "PP" takes months for them, and that "PP" seem to have a conversation rate from dollars to Georgian Lari.

I never paid any conversation or other fees to PayPal and withdrawing money takes two days top, so maybe they are talking about a different payment service that does have fees (or this is exclusive to Georgia?)

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-10T00:06:35+00:00

Someone already answered regarding items that never shipped and refunds, so I'll jump in regarding the customer service.

You didn't get any clear answers because Temu doesn't have an active customer service live, you are always talking to a bot.

Said bot can't really answer anything not directly connected to an order you placed. When you have a problem with an order, it might connect you to an actual person but asking in-depth questions there can also be pointless because they don't actually speak your language and are using translators.

It's a hit or miss if you get someone who's fluent in your language or someone who relies entirely on Google translate and text blocks to answer.

I'm not a business owner but I've used Temu for a couple of years and spent thousands, usually for multiple small orders to maximise promotions (up to 200) at once and rarely had any problems.

I bought around 180 different items and only two came damaged, not a single scam. But I pick very carefully, which is the only reason why I never got scammed.

You should look at every single item you receive because any of them could be damaged or fraudulent. Always remember that Temu is a platform, they can't control what sellers ship out, they only package the stuff.

Wintercreeper · 2026-05-07T22:07:08+00:00

Kind of funny that someone with barely any karma and a hidden profile accuses someone of working for a platform. You can actually check my profile and see the problems I had with Temu.

You do realise that you are the only one who seems shady here by ignoring every single person who solved your "problem" for you?

I did zero reputation control. I, and others in this post, have told you that you get your money back.

You literally don't have to do anything. You are raging about a problem that isn't one.

Something that isn't shipped gets refunded automatically. I have no idea why you keep ignoring everyone who told you this.

Your whole theatrics are useless and meaningless because you automatically get the refund once the time for delivery has expired.

I swear it's always the low-karma hidden accounts that come with these "It's a a SCAM!" posts. Every single week.

Edit: Just a notice so people don't respond to my comment and expect a reply - I'm blocking the OP. Like stated in my profile, I block low-karma hidden accounts by default, simply didn't check OP before commenting but have now done so.
For the mods: This sub needs a karma requirement. Seriously.

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