Originally Posted by mrfuji3
Importantly, make sure to speed through character creation and get to gameplay as quickly as possible. Steam only guarantees refunds with < 2 hours of playtime, and I've often heard stories where people create their characters/do the tutorial for that time and then can't get a refund.
If you put Steam in offline mode while playing then the hours played aren't tracked, pretty sure you can still get a refund. Could be wrong though.