DNKski

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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 in c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
[โ€“] DNKski@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Don't know why, but yes. Now, they are trying to fix that fiasco, with GMG support, but leaves bad taste.

"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 in c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
[โ€“] DNKski@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Well... Yes, but actually no. I mean, they've revoked many, many keys. Some of them may be from scalpers / stolen credit cards / cheaper regions.

But... There is key selling store, Green Man Gaming. Publishers are deliverying keys to GMG, only them. Perfectly legal keys. And they still revoked that keys.

Links:

  1. https://nitter.net/aNichiporchik/status/2086944850767691795
  2. https://steamcommunity.com/app/3812600/discussions/0/588434705716610750/

My suggestion for tinyBuild is, if you want to get rid of scalpers, just dont sell game outside of storefront. Like Steam/EGS/GOG. If you want extra cash from stores like GMG/Fanatical, live with it.