Lists to use:

Unused Keys Revoked: https://barter.vg/notices/513
Revoked (Dev): https://barter.vg/notices/362
Revoked (DMCA): https://barter.vg/notices/361
Duplicates: https://barter.vg/notices/372

If you want this information for one game specifically, you can find it under the "Notices" section for the Barter entry of that game.
(Example: https://barter.vg/i/42708/ then scroll down to "Notices": you'll see the red notice "Revoked (Dev) ⌫"; mouseovering it will give you some more info)

Thanks to everyone who reported their key revocations here. Please continue reporting them here. You folks are awesome!


Due to character limit, time constraints and having to manually create the chart rows, it's very difficult to keep a list on revocations on SteamGifts. Since I am the one managing these notices on Barter anyway, I thought it would be convenient to centralize the reports from SteamGifts and trade offers into one place and Barter proved to be a good solution for that because of its bundles and game database.

The below lists will not be updated on SG any more, but all your reports will be reflected on Barter, so please continue reporting them.

Previous links, for reference:
A list of games completely revoked from your library after activation
A list of games whose unredeemed keys were revoked (the big chart that was previously in this thread was moved here)
More games with invalidated keys can be found here.


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I'm so glad i stopped buying from Go Go and Otaku when i first heard about devs not being paid. That saved me a lot of headaches.

But seeing all the affected bundles now, it's pretty clear to me that the owners at some point just ran with the money, pretty shady.

Also ty for the chart. 😉

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Great idea for the thread, thank you for the wonderful effort as always!

There's a curator you should check out that will be a great boon for some of the older examples My Key Was Revoked

For their own noble efforts, they have an unfortunately small following so I always try to plug them whenever relevant.

5 years ago
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You rock Lilly. I've been wondering which of my old Otaku keys I can use anymore for giveaways =)

5 years ago
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Just passing by to say that this is a wonderful idea for a thread. ^^

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:)

5 years ago
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I just noticed that I had not activated my Steam key for Wanderer of Teandria, nice. I've created a thread asking the developer about it here.

5 years ago
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Added, thank you!

5 years ago
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Thank you for another incredibly useful thread. (ღˇ◡ˇ)~♥

5 years ago
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Great idea to make the thread. Think I might only have one winner effected, but I'm waiting to hear back from them. I can't check (garbage phone and I'm not home at my PC) right now to see if it's still in their account, but hopefully their key wasn't an indiegala buy haha I'm surprised how many of their keys are getting revoked

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Notice how it's all basically Otaku, Go Go Bundle, Indie Gala, and Groupees. That's not a coincidence.

Fanatical is in there once with Ghoulboy but that is known to be an error on the part of the dev.

Anyway great idea for a thread and certainly a handy resource!

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Groupees is in this list because of the devs being jackasses, not because of any spurious mal-intentions of Groupees.
Also, just because Groupees game bundles lately have been pretty crap, doesn't mean Groupees as a company made up of human beings are suddenly horrible people.
I can't speak for the other sites, but I can tell you in at least a few of those cases it's also because the devs have been jerks as well.
A little civil communication can go a long way to resolving issues in the best way, than people shooting from the hip, and then trying to clean up the mess afterwards. I know this all too well, I suffer from making snap-judgments every day of my life.

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Notice how it's all basically Otaku, Go Go Bundle, Indie Gala, and Groupees. That's not a coincidence.

The trend you should actually be seeing is how its now a risk occurring at literally every bundle site except for Humble--yet.

But, yeah it's not coincidence. The smaller companies dealing with the smaller (and less reputable) developers tend to be the ones that get scammed most often by those parties who grew increasingly comfortable with having their cake and eating it too since legal recourse is so impractical from both those companies and customers.

But don't worry---there are other cases at Fanatical to be added!

The issue is, and always has been, that letting these things go unchecked only contributes to them occurring more often, as has been happening. In the past I use to say the only place this never happens are Humble and Bundle Stars, but obviously that has changed now. The same way this didn't use to happen nearly as much---though it has been happening for a long time now. Usually developers are able to fly under the radar by only stealing from customers say a year or so after the bundles sold, since there are fewer people to notice the keys legally purchased were revoked. It's just as much intentional destruction of property for their own benefit, but without enough people shouting at the time it happens the issue falls into the cracks and a lot of developers have actually get away with their criminal behavior.

Fanatical is in there once with Ghoulboy but that is known to be an error on the part of the dev.

LOL.

If by "known to be an error" you still mean to say they knowingly and intentionally revoked the keys from legal purchases at Fanatical they approved and supplied at the time because it had become convenient for them to wipe out the second hand market-place---then you could call it that. I mean, that'd be an incredibly misleading way to phrase things I think, but that always the trouble with words like error/mistake that say so much while saying nothing at all.

If you meant that someone hit the wrong button like that implies it was never meant to happen---then oh no. Not at all. They did exactly as originally desired in revoking those keys.

They always say oops, but it's almost always "it was a mistake" as in "I shouldn't have robbed that bank," not "I hit the 3rd floor on the elevator instead of the 5th" like gets implied.

The same excuse (and repeating process) occurs in nigh-every example these days, like a step in a dance routine. That's part of the hoodwink that lets these things keep happening. It works as an inference from their comments, but the real value comes when picking it up from other people who might've inferred it. It's this short-hand telephone version of "what happened" where the words take on a life of their own.

This is why I REALLY hate people using the words "erorr" and "mistake" and "accident" around these events at all. They are so incredibly vague and misleading that just repeating those phrases often enough will let the go-to story warp to whatever pure conjecture and imagination serves the moment and they come to represent anything except for what actually happened.

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Something I've not been able to figure out, maybe this is me missing the obvious, but what do these devs stand to gain from this nonsense? You mentioned wiping out the second hand market but surely most of these games have little to no value there. In the same vein, most of these games would not be re-purchased by those who've had their keys revoked.

Assuming even a fraction of the cases in which the devs claimed payment issues are legitimate then there's one explanation, I still disagree with their actions but at least there's a reason for it. Too many of these cases however spurious and often the devs agree to replace keys for those that request it leaving me baffled as to what the point of it all was.

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Well, some developers are just flipping imbeciles.

(Sorry I didn't write a long elaborated comment like ReptilianWorldOrder does -which I always enjoy reading, by the way-).

PS: In this thread we're not even touching the games that were Greenlit thanks to being included in a bundle and were never delivered afterwards. There are quite a few, too (Vadim Starygin holds the record, though).

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developers hope to gain a few additional sales or kill the second hand market for their keys. or they are just flat out dumb and don't have even the most basic idea that gamers are given a warning about revoked keys..

Most of them are flat out liars, and the time they revoke keys just so happen to coincide with some other event taking place..

The Gogo/Otaku situation is unfortunate, because any developer can revoke keys and claim to have not been paid, and gamers have no way to know if they are lying or not..

As for Indiegala.. most of their revoked keys had to do with the developer revoking keys from Otaku/go go bundle and not knowing how to do it correcly. so they hit all the keys..

meh. ultimately in most cases it's kinda crappy of the developer to revoke the keys because the revocation normally does nothing to the bundle site, but makes the developers look like pariahs
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Bulby: Diamond Course was also an IGS deal once, which is where I got it from I believe, but it wasn't revoked so that may be unaffected.

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1st thought: okay, not so many in the table...
2nd thought: omg that's so many games waiting to be added

5 years ago
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lol

so very true

5 years ago
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Exactly my thoughts xD

5 years ago
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a game to describe all of this
Typical Nightmare
what a fitting name
great thread btw

5 years ago
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I seem to remember Nekro keys either being invalidated/revoked from Groupees Be Mine 13 ages ago and they were replaced by the developer after what was quite a long wait. Also I recall unused keys of Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti from Groupees Be Mine 24 being made invalid/duped and were replaced by contacting the developer as well iirc.

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View attached image.
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What do I do if my Otaku Bundle was bought as a gift through a group buy?

5 years ago
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Contact your GroupBuy host and ask them if they received replacement keys for the whole group buy batch. It's possible that the don't even know that a game was revoked, so it's always better to ask first.
I do my group buys with Manueluis usually and he always contacts the developer and sends us replacement keys when something is revoked. I don't know in how far the other hosts do this too.

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Please add in : Porradaria 2 - Vladmirson from bundle kings.

5 years ago
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Any idea which bundle was it from? the Bonus Bundle or the Indie Bundle?
Might be both though...

5 years ago
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From bundle kings

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Yes but which? Both the "Bonus Bundle" and the "Indie Bundle" are Bundle Kings bundles.

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Added, thanks!

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It wasn't from a bundle, though. It was sold on several "stores", apparently without the permission of the developers.

5 years ago
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PS: I contacted the developer and I received a replacement key. They are really friendly and helpful, I'm thinking of gifting and giving away a few copies of the game during the next sale to show some appreciation for how they dealt with this nasty situation...

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nice of you!

5 years ago
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thank you very useful iwanted to get back my Ghoulboy key

5 years ago
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Check your Groupees account if you got No70: Eye of Basir from BaB 42. They have added a replacement key for it, i just activated mine without problems.

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Thanks for this, I had an idea to make a thread keeping track of these but you went and actually did it! Well done :)

5 years ago
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lol aww @ broken heart emoji :/

Good to know which sites & devs are messing with keys & libraries so I can know which ones to Go Go away from

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Great thread. I'll have check about Ghoulboy, and if I've got the few titles coming from Indiegala bundles affected.

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The devs for Vortex Attack revoked the unused keys from the Groupees Greenlight 18 bundle a couple of years ago - if you look at their Steam thread, they clearly did not understand what they were doing when they listed the game in the bundle (they thought they had to send keys to all Groupees buyers by email when the game was Greenlit, and were generally clueless throughout) and then pulled all the keys sometime in 2017. I think they have edited some of the posts out of the current Steam thread as well, though I'm not sure.

I've contacted them about getting a working key several times, but they do not answer my emails.

Vortex Attack: https://store.steampowered.com/app/357890/Vortex_Attack/
Steam thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/357890/discussions/0/618457398966069523/

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Running Man 3D Part2 from Go Go Bundle Limited #73 , mine are still ok
9 Mar, 2019 Running Man 3D Part 2 Retail

5 years ago
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I started a thread about this a while ago, which included the following keys that now show up as duplicate (all unused keys were deactivated by developer)

Dexodonex
Mobile Astro
Pixel Arcade
Plank not included
Nearly every single game published by '8Floor'

Additional games where bundle keys have been deactivated by the developer:
Dark Mechanism VR
Distant Nightmare VR
Escape from Nazi Labs
Mad Dojo
Particulars
Soul Axiom
The Away Team
Zombie Camp

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Soul Axiom wasn't from a Humble Bundle, was it?

5 years ago
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Looks like the devs for The Away Team will provide a new key if you have the receipt.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/426290/discussions/0/1769259642866747397/#c1769259642866853516

Wish I checked this thread before creating a giveaway for it. :/

5 years ago
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W.T.B. threatening to revoke OKB keys, and only offering a replacement for users that review their games.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Happy New Year Clicker

Possibly more?

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Forced reviews for shit games to get the payed stuff back ? :-D
I hope a lot click the REPORT flag in the steam store after the revoke of there keys.

You find it at the games store page on the right side when you scroll a bit down.

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Wow, thanks for the heads up!

5 years ago
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I hope my two thorough, extremely negative reviews for these two games (March and July 2018!) won't be revoked too =P

5 years ago
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I doubt it, as they show their validity.

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