As many of you may know, or have heard recently many internet sites (generally the anime visual novel sites) recently got scammed for steam keys, some sites even losing up to 30k because of the credit card charge back scheme. Where you buy a bunch of digital games and simply dispute it with your bank. The fancy way of stealing in the 21st century.

They have begun to revoke every last key that was stolen from them, assuming it was all Sunrider Academy that's roughly 1000 copies of Sunrider Academy.

Once again those keys are being revoked, so people who were giving them away like hot cakes, well they're being suspended or they simply have to go back and buy legit keys from steam, the game is on sale for 80% because the devs have another game coming out today.

My point is the problem is already self-correcting. The people who were using it to game the system are being punished, the keys are being revoked by steam for being fraudulent. So the question is why am I complaining about this?

I noted that people were getting their games revoked noticed that it was on sale and bought 5 copies, legit steam copies. The games that were given out were not part of the scam, and quite frankly this isn't an amazon price glitch where amazon will honor it's commitment to you, or even a steam glitch where thousands of keys were bought and distributed, these were stolen keys. The problem is being rectified. Will there probably be some people who get to keep their stolen keys? Probably, but then we're going to need to have a serious conversation about the "grey market" sites and by that I mean all the shady key-resellers.

Let me simplify: A game was stolen and sold by shady key sellers. This wasn't a price glitch it was actually stolen. The companies involved in this huge theft, are revoking keys. People give out the stolen keys on SG but by now as people have said, those keys are being revoked. The game was put on the bundle list because people were getting these copies for insanely cheap, but once again those copies are being revoked.The game shouldn't be on the bundle list because it wasn't bundled. This has nothing to do with Russian prices and everything to do with the fact that the game as it stands should not be on the bundle list.

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People have already discussed about the grey markets before (search g2a in the discussions) many times.
I think the conclusion is that if you are willing to take the risk then go for it, if not don't buy from them.

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So the question is why am I complaining about this?

Maybe it's because I'm sleepy, but I'm still not sure what this is about...

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A game was stolen on mass, the company is revoking keys left right and center. I buy my game from steam, and my games are legit, game gets slapped with a bundle tag even though the problem is being fixed.

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yea was just thinking so, too.

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thats the correct pronunciation but incorrect spelling (its not english)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/en%20masse

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my bad for trying to help people learn

mybe thy culd typ jst nethng n we cud say itz ez 2 reed

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Game has the base price of $30. Game is on sale for 99 rubles (locked to CIS), which is about $1.35 = 95,5% discount => game is added to the bundle list. What this has to do with stolen keys? Am i missing something?

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No, were are equally confused.

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According to the date the bundle was made nearly a month ago.You can argue that it should be on the list now but it shouldn't have been from back then.

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Summary: He wants a discussion on grey markets

Edit: Didn't know about the bundle thing. Maybe you should do a tl;dr

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Same here.

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Yea like whats the problem now? OP mad about the game being on the bundle list? That's most likely not because of the stolen keys but because of russian prices that are more than 95% off.

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Closed 8 years ago by thelaughinman.