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Polygon: The truth behind those mysteriously cheap gray market game codes

Upon further investigation Robinson told us that, oddly enough, the key that Polygon purchased was one she had sent to a YouTube press contact to promote her game. She declined to name who she sent the code to, but was surprised to find that instead of playing her game or giving the code away as she had asked them to, they'd instead sold it for cash, anonymously, online.
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Why people choose to make use of sites like these flaws me. Just wait for it to reach the price you want on a legitimate key reseller? :wtf:

I really enjoy it when Polygon does articles like these. I recommend giving it a read. *two thumbs up*
 
I recall a few developers have spoken about this. Many people with mildly successful Youtube channels do this.

Yet sadly you won't get people to stop using these shitty sites.
 
KofDelight said:
Me too, I like seeing the physical game on my shelf, plus I can resell it or loan it to a friend.
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problem is, Steam has made the "digital distribution" model incredibly attractive. So much so that i hardly ever buy PC games on physical format
 
Hiro said:
problem is, Steam has made the "digital distribution" model incredibly attractive. So much so that i hardly ever buy PC games on physical format
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I can understand buying digital games for the PC would be better than the physical, it's a lot cheaper, but with consoles, the physical disc is better for trading and so on.

For guys with PC rigs it's easy to keep up with the next gen games, but I gave up upgrading my machine as it was costing too much.
 
Hiro said:
problem is, Steam has made the "digital distribution" model incredibly attractive. So much so that i hardly ever buy PC games on physical format
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I agree. The other day I bought a physical disk for the first time in about 3 years, and guess what- it wouldn't read in my machine. I pulled out another old disk a few months back and there was nothing in the box grrrr- had to search for half an hour to find it again. These are just some of the reasons I've gone almost completely digital. It's cheap and just works.
 
ave said:
I agree. The other day I bought a physical disk for the first time in about 3 years, and guess what- it wouldn't read in my machine. I pulled out another old disk a few months back and there was nothing in the box grrrr- had to search for half an hour to find it again. These are just some of the reasons I've gone almost completely digital. It's cheap and just works.
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Why wouldn't it read? Was it old or was it your DVD drive?

I have the opposite viewpoint. I like having something in my hands (don't go there :rolleyes:). Plus, most retail games activate on Steam anyway. Personally, I'm trying to un-digitise my library. My shelves are so bare nowadays :/

Just works...that's debatable. A lot of games on Steam, especially older ones, don't usually just work...
 
The_Imp_ZA said:
Just works...that's debatable. A lot of games on Steam, especially older ones, don't usually just work...
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That's definately debatable, since usually those games wouldn't just work even with the disk version, so yes Steam drops the ball by not making it magically compatible, but it's not as though you'd have been able to run it smoothly without tweaks either way...
I do agree though that its nice to have a box and a disc...I still fondly remember half-life's box with the front that opens up like a page...very cool. The booklets are also always nice, I do miss that :(
 
The_Imp_ZA said:
Why wouldn't it read? Was it old or was it your DVD drive?

I have the opposite viewpoint. I like having something in my hands (don't go there :rolleyes:). Plus, most retail games activate on Steam anyway. Personally, I'm trying to un-digitise my library. My shelves are so bare nowadays :/

Just works...that's debatable. A lot of games on Steam, especially older ones, don't usually just work...
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Must be my dvd drive because it reads perfectly on my laptop, but that doesn't really help. It's probably got some new form of copy protection on it that my dvd drive doesn't like.

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mottamort said:
That's definately debatable, since usually those games wouldn't just work even with the disk version, so yes Steam drops the ball by not making it magically compatible, but it's not as though you'd have been able to run it smoothly without tweaks either way...
I do agree though that its nice to have a box and a disc...I still fondly remember half-life's box with the front that opens up like a page...very cool. The booklets are also always nice, I do miss that :(
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Yes, I think I spent as much time thumbing through the manuals, and looking at the boxes as I did playing the game.... Well not quite, but now days most games don't even have the manuals and just come in dvd cases.
 
mottamort said:
That's definately debatable, since usually those games wouldn't just work even with the disk version, so yes Steam drops the ball by not making it magically compatible, but it's not as though you'd have been able to run it smoothly without tweaks either way...
I do agree though that its nice to have a box and a disc...I still fondly remember half-life's box with the front that opens up like a page...very cool. The booklets are also always nice, I do miss that :(
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But unlike Steam, those games aren't being sold anymore at retail. GOG takes the effort to make sure all their games work, and if they can't help you to get it working, they give you a refund, no problem. Steam doesn't do this, and it's bad business ethics. If they weren't already #1 , they definitely wouldn't be with an attitude like that.

Yeah, those big box PC games were the best. I still have some like HeXen on my shelf. Good times. *thumbs up*.

ave said:
Yes, I think I spent as much time thumbing through the manuals, and looking at the boxes as I did playing the game.... Well not quite, but now days most games don't even have the manuals and just come in dvd cases.
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I know right. Those pieces of paper they call 'manuals' make me sad. Manuals used to be mini encyclopedias. :p
 
I think it was mentioned earlier in this thread but just double checking. Nuuvem is legit, right?

They are selling Cities Skylines for about $10 vs $30 on steam. Somethings fishy.
 
Reavs said:
I think it was mentioned earlier in this thread but just double checking. Nuuvem is legit, right?

They are selling Cities Skylines for about $10 vs $30 on steam. Somethings fishy.
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Yep they are totally legit. The prices in Brazil are just way cheaper.
 
[MENTION=13506]Reavs[/MENTION] Just to agree with everyone else, Nuuvem is an authorized steam key reseller, no shady business. You have to use Paypal though, and some games are region locked, however there is usually a big warning when this is the case.

I think it's more like $17 though. :p

They usually have some insane deals, way better than Steam. In December they were selling the Batman Arkham trilogy for $5, and last month they had the majority of the Lord of the Rings games on Steam, including Shadow of Mordor, for $25.
 
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[MENTION=13506]Reavs[/MENTION] Just to agree with everyone else, Nuuvem is an authorized steam key reseller, no shady business. You have to use Paypal though, and some games are region locked, however there is usually a big warning when this is the case.

I think it's more like $17 though. :p

They usually have some insane deals, way better than Steam. In December they were selling the Batman Arkham trilogy for $5, and last month they had the majority of the Lord of the Rings games on Steam, including Shadow of Mordor, for $25.
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Cool thanks. Not sure how i got to $10. Happens when you try to multi task early in the morning without coffee.
 
Man im so worried with region locked stuff. I know steam gets all effy about this and have banned accounts. Are we sure that the keys that are sold are not registered for that country, so in other words if u activate that key in SA, steam knows the key originated from brazil and thus flagging ur account?
 
My Borderlands 2 comes from Nuuvem and has never been revoked.

As long as you don't buy region locked stuff you'll be fine. Think of it this way - Steam has no way of knowing how you got your hands on the key. It might have been gifted to you by someone who lives in Brazil, so they won't just revoke it.
 
As long as the key isn't region-locked, it should be fine.

Unless you mean gifting through the Steam UI, in which case no. Too many russian scammers were trading people russian keys for global keys.
 
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