Deadpool Steam Retail Key back in stock on Amazon ($39.99)

That's actually my used key. I gave it to him so he could check the subID. I didn't have the necessary steamdb browser extension.

You get that with the first 11 letters of the steam key? Or how do you know? I was just looking at his picture and it didn't show anything that's in your img that's why I'm confused.

Edit: Oh I guess because above his extension says "Deadpool Retail", I see what you mean now. So if it was the new sub they updated 14 days ago instead of 27773 "Deadpool Retail" it would be the 163 "Activison Comp", in your licenses page as well I'm assuming?

I used this address: 123 Harry Street, Beverly Hills, California, 90210, United States, added my actual phone number (without the country prefix), set the address as default, selected my card as the payment option and that allowed me to place the order. then just waited for about 30 mins for it to complete.

Fair, but I don't think there's a single recorded case where they went for someone like this and won. They might go for distributors although all that does is kill media, and sparks a push for these companies to be required to maintain such media, which they also don't want. Even if they were to go after the general person, the individual would end up claiming bankruptcy in the end and the company just losses on thousands of dollars of court fees and whatever fee you had to pay gets dropped, because the fees are outrageous and so is the fee for what they think that should be, the only people who could afford to pay that are big corporations. This is what happened with all the people who were sharing music, despite it being still available for sale, even those people ended up getting it dropped, but I agree it probably wasn't a nice period of their life. I wouldn't stress about it. You're also taking the time to play a game they thought had absolutely 0 interest, so indirectly you're doing them a favor, because they might research into that, reconsider a relisting, remake, remaster, sequel, whatever which only serves them well because they're in the business of making money.

However you're not wrong, it would still be piracy. I just never heard of them going for this because it would cost them loads of money, to charge someone who has none, to fight for media they are unwilling to list for sale or provide support for.

Consider though that thousands of abandonware sites operate safe like this for 5-10-15-20 years now maybe more, by removing the game from their archive once it gets relisted for sale officially anywhere and they don't get taken down. If they aren't targeting those sites at all, why would they target you? You could take this to court to argue that they are not doing anything to prevent the site, but are fishing for small individuals and I think you'd have a solid case. You still broke a rule, but the company is using a trap.

I remember reading a case where this site used to post nintendo games that were still available for sale, in some cases, they'd post games that weren't even released yet by abusing exploits and leaks, and they were running ads on their site or some sort of subscription and eventually they got taken down and fined. Even they returned and are doing it properly now I think with only unavailable games. It was some youtube documentary I saw. It's digital media too, not physical property.

It's a bit of a gray area I would think since nobody is selling them retail. So, it's not taking sales away from anybody.

I'm not saying "It's not possible", I'm saying that a lot of apps also received updates when this happened during the past six months too. It was mostly updating apps to add privacy updates related to the steam depots.

Could it still happen? Yes. But don't hold your breath. Activision is cheap as hell and negotiating these licenses again is expensive, plus updating them for modern hardware isn't always possible.

Age of Empires is a Microsoft owned IP, there are no ownership issues in the way, unlike the Marvel IP.

Also, brought back? The Age of Empires IP has been churning out content almost every year since it released.

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