sanitation@lemmy.todayBanned from community to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down12
arrow-up1164arrow-down1external-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.todayBanned from community to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square51linkfedilink
minus-squareGrimy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down7·2 months agoThis works because we don’t own our games. They have an equivalent to key resellers for physical media, it’s eBay. Crazy that I’m supposed to think some random gamer that bought a perfectly legal key from a “shady” website is at fault here.
minus-squarezurohki@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down6·2 months ago a perfectly legal key That’s the thing, they were bought with stolen credit card details in the first place, so they aren’t really legal keys.
minus-squareGrimy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down3·2 months agoNo they weren’t. None were stolen or bought with stolen credit cards according to the article.
This works because we don’t own our games. They have an equivalent to key resellers for physical media, it’s eBay.
Crazy that I’m supposed to think some random gamer that bought a perfectly legal key from a “shady” website is at fault here.
That’s the thing, they were bought with stolen credit card details in the first place, so they aren’t really legal keys.
No they weren’t. None were stolen or bought with stolen credit cards according to the article.