sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago"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 keyswww.gamesradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1112
arrow-up1112external-link"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 keyswww.gamesradar.comsanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareRunawayFixer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·17 hours agoOld advice, but probably still true: Either buy from legitimate vendors or pirate it. Buying from shady sites creates extra work and costs for developers. If you can’t afford or don’t want to buy our games full-price, please pirate them rather than buying them from a key reseller. These sites cost us so much potential dev time in customer service, investigating fake key requests, figuring out credit card chargebacks, and more. — Rami Ismail (@tha_rami) June 30, 2019 https://www.techdirt.com/2019/07/09/indie-publishers-tell-gamers-to-pirate-instead-buying-keys-through-reseller-g2a/
Old advice, but probably still true: Either buy from legitimate vendors or pirate it. Buying from shady sites creates extra work and costs for developers.
If you can’t afford or don’t want to buy our games full-price, please pirate them rather than buying them from a key reseller. These sites cost us so much potential dev time in customer service, investigating fake key requests, figuring out credit card chargebacks, and more.
— Rami Ismail (@tha_rami) June 30, 2019
https://www.techdirt.com/2019/07/09/indie-publishers-tell-gamers-to-pirate-instead-buying-keys-through-reseller-g2a/