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"Just buy the game on Steam": Indie publisher behind a recent banger that sold 300k copies in its first week warns against key resellers after canceling hundreds of scalped keys (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

? I literally answered your question with industry best practices. Which is to manage your keys. If the Devs put up an insane amount of keys on a third party marketplace at a crazy discount and that leads to any adverse effects, that is the Devs personal responsibility. Valve agrees. I'm not sure why you're arguing for sloppy laziness for some fictional perceived dev event that according to the letter of how to handle keys from the provider of the keys is not the responsible way to handle them.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago

    Why are you advocating for taking keys offline just because of who’s hand it went through when they were bought perfectly legally?

    Buying keys on Steam to resell them is directly against their policy specifically so that developers feel comfortable putting products on sale. If a key was purchased by a reseller from Steam then they can legally use it, however they can't resell it. Many do. They're the one doing something wrong and fucking people over, in order to insert themselves as an unofficial middle man and leech money.

    Resellers are shit. Period. It's like buying something from a guy in an alley and then complaining to the manufacturer when it doesn't work. Buy through an actual authorized seller. Those exist for a reason.

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