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You are defending a wrong (taking perfectly valid keys offline) because of a group abusing it in a legal manner (buying excess keys).
They could find solutions that don't spit on our ownership rights.
It's ToS abuse imo, not really defendable. Steam is getting dragged into court because of shit like this. The breach of ethics involved in trying to dictate the use of keys is far greater than the one committed by the reseller imo. They can only do this because of the quasi monopoly they have.
I really think this is the steam pink google effect. If it was Microsoft and Activision behind it, everyone would be livid imo.
I don't have some strange love for Steam. It was the dev who decided to do it, and the people need to get a refund through the storefront they chose to use.