i was checkin steamgifts for some info, but nothing.....it was few hours ago, i was really confused, but website was not working for me then.....now they prices look normal, but at gg.deals are still broken....maybe some bug
hope they will fix it, otherwise lots of games will have broken historical lowest price
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Yeah, I hope they will fix it on all similar pages (isthereanydeal for example), as now I removed GamesRep from my store settings not to botch the price listing for the games.
And thanks for mentioning gg.deals - didn't know that one before somehow.
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Games Republic price errors - all games 99% off - 0.10 GBP
Games Republic currently experiences major issues - all games cost 0.10 GBP or your local equivalent (99% off)
We will fix all historical prices of games once the problems are fixed. In the meantime, it's up to you if you choose to take advantage of this error, but we would advise against it. The keys you purchase may be revoked later and you will cause serious problems to the shop (which already gone bust once in the past...)
IDK, if I don't name/put source it'd be against ethics, but if I do, then might get called in by mods in the event these aren't allowed.
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Scammers do not operate by fun logic, if somebody really broke into the internal pricing system for the website, very likely he'd have access to all the pre-assigned keys from the database.
Even if you assume that this isn't right, a scammer would change price of just one game, buy as many keys as possible and revert it back before proceeding to the next title. It's impossible that he'd be so stupid to just update everything globally and expose himself before he's done, as the chances of somebody discovering that whole store is on -99% is... quite more likely than discovering price of some AAA game that was just recently released.
Personally I believe it was a human error after all. Closing the site (at least temporarily) is actually the best solution if you have no idea who did this and how exactly. There is no time to investigate, you shutdown things first, then take your time. This is a standard procedure in a lot of companies - you have to minimize the damage first.
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Yeah, you're probably right. My second guess was a clumsy manual sql query, forgetting the 'where' clause. ;-)
BUT what if he wanted to cause confusion in order to make the stolen keys harder to track and revoke among all the "price error buys"? If it was a human error, I think they would have shut down the store before anyone would notice, let alone some price aggregators. The last time the error was obvious - they set the sale prices and then went to sleep. Now, not so much.
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It's possible that it was a hack, I never said that irrational hacks do not occur, I just have hard time believing that.
Revokes take time, investigation and contact with the devs too. I doubt he wouldn't sell majority of stolen keys before it'd come. You also can't just revoke everything with one e-mail, as every publisher needs to contact Valve afterwards, so it's much more complicated than price error of just one game. And there is no way that the company would pay out of its own pockets for the other customers, not with a fuckup that huge.
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I started a post under Deals, and it appears to have begun at least 8 hours ago according to the replies I got: https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/4ZRMS/gamesrepubliccom-whats-up-with-them-and-their-supposed-star-wars-sales-99-off#yM9JUPZ
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No idea about that, I haven't really shopped there. Opinions seem mixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/GameDealsMeta/comments/7wer6l/whats_the_deal_with_games_republic_now/
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Gg.deals has apparently already fixed the Historical Low price listing for all games affected by today's issue. I checked the listings for several of the games that I received notification on earlier this morning.
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What was that with Games Republic store page a few hours ago today?
They got many games discounted to $0.12/€0.12. (And the store went promptly offline soon after)
Did they screw up with sale setting maybe? Price went to 0.12 instead of price percentage (12%) maybe?
Were they hacked? Or what?
Anybody got 'lucky' during this very special event of theirs?
Did they revoke those keys ordered during this one, or you 'lucky people' really got lucky?
Am I a potato? :D
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