• DNKski@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    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.

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      8 hours ago

      The publisher sold keys to GreenManGaming (and probably other stores ) and then the developers unilaterally revoked all serials without first checking if they were legitimate?

      Sounds like the developers are running their company out of a shed and are immature.

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        7 hours ago

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

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          5 hours ago

          I think the bad taste in my mouth is the 300k copies they sold and the need to then do this? Stepping over pounds to save pennies etc.