.... Sometimes the keys are real.

Others, they're fake and stolen.

You apparently got lucky. Don't count your blessings, they can be revoked at any time if Valve determines they were issued illegally.

Key revoking is instantanious when they figure out the fradualent keys.
So if they aren't revoked now they probably wont be revoked.
But please for the love of god don't buy from key sites.
Hell most game devs would rather you pirate a game then give money to those people since they don't see a cent either way.

the statute on chargebacks can go up to 3 years, depending on the bank, so you may or may not be out of the woods yet. either way, you're lucky.

if you are worried about keys getting revoked, you should really start rethinking where you buy from.

https://isthereanydeal.com/

if that site doesnt list them, you are on your own. they list actual resellers that get their keys from legit sources. if any site listed starts to have issues, they get removed till they get their act together.

avoid grey markets, they are like minefields. you can walk thru without issues, but at some point your luck runs out.

Also OP:


Don't assume that anyone is dumb enough to buy those keys and brag about it. People that find their keys have been revoked act *so* surprised that this could *possibly* happen from a "legit dealer" that gets censored every post.

"We" don't buy from shady resellers. "You" shouldn't either.

Codes getting revoked are rather rare.

What's more interesting to me is that you said that they weren't available on the Steam shop. You shop at sites that allow you to buy games that were banned from Steam?

No judgement here - there's been at least 1 game that was removed from Steam, because the developer got banned for whatever reason, that I wanted but didn't get before they took it down from the store and removed it (for me, without asking) from my wishlist. It's just interesting to me that 1. you can do that & 2. you're shopping for games that are no longer available on the Steam storefront.

Publicado originalmente por Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at:

What's more interesting to me is that you said that they weren't available on the Steam shop. You shop at sites that allow you to buy games that were banned from Steam?

No judgement here - there's been at least 1 game that was removed from Steam, because the developer got banned for whatever reason, that I wanted but didn't get before they took it down from the store and removed it (for me, without asking) from my wishlist. It's just interesting to me that 1. you can do that & 2. you're shopping for games that are no longer available on the Steam storefront.


:seewhatyoudid:

Games can be removed due to licensing issues, doesn't have to be something bad. Some Lego games were pulled off of Steam not to long ago

Publicado originalmente por Pat on the back:

I have been using cdkeys for the past 4 or 5 years to purchase some games (not all) and never ran into a single problem with any of my purchases even pre-orders arrive on time or early.

They're great unlike that 3 letter site that is a blocked word on here

Publicado originalmente por Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at:

What's more interesting to me is that you said that they weren't available on the Steam shop. You shop at sites that allow you to buy games that were banned from Steam?

In 95% of the cases I always buy my games through the Steam-Shop or "in the box" at consumer electronics retail shops like Gamestop. I only resort to third party sellers if the game is neither available on Steam or my local retail shops.
The problem is: I'm from Germany and in some cases we have very strict rules with video games. If they are deemed "jugendgefährdend" by our gouvernment (because they are considered to be too violent or something like that) they land on our index and subsequently get removed from steam or they are not even published here in the first place because the publisher estimates a "Indizierung" or at least significant censoring of the game.
Also, since i started collecting games back in the early to mid-nineties, some games i still have physical copies of are not available in the Steam-Shop because of licensing issues, them simply beeing to old or problems like that.

So it's not like the games are banned on Steam, it's just that they are not available in the german Steam-Shop and purchasing them over third party sellers is pratically the only way to get some of them here in Germany.

I would strongly recommend not looking for technical support here on that regard then. Steam isn't legally allowed to sell those games to you, so if the licenses have been removed, it's because of that.

You could consider moving to a country that is less heavy on entertainment censorship.



(I don't have an airplane emoticon yet.)

Publicado originalmente por Zekiran:

I would strongly recommend not looking for technical support here on that regard then. Steam isn't legally allowed to sell those games to you, so if the licenses have been removed, it's because of that.

And they're not selling them to you. All keys will Still work and if you owned the game you keep it.

Publicado originalmente por Zekiran:

I would strongly recommend not looking for technical support here on that regard then. Steam isn't legally allowed to sell those games to you, so if the licenses have been removed, it's because of that.

Steam is not selling a game to you if you own the license aka key.

Possession is not reglemented. Just public display and selling.

Publicado originalmente por Muppet among Puppets:

Publicado originalmente por Zekiran:

I would strongly recommend not looking for technical support here on that regard then. Steam isn't legally allowed to sell those games to you, so if the licenses have been removed, it's because of that.

Steam is not selling a game to you if you own the license aka key.

Possession is not reglemented. Just public display and selling.

however, some keys for certain games will not activate in germany, no matter where you purchased them, even if it is a key from an authorized key seller.
So there is a certain reglementation of „posession“ here...