Valve out of keys?

During a sale some time ago they ran out of Fable 3 keys, i remember i had to wait 4-5 days before i could install it because of missing key.

I was shocked to see the "mixed" user-reviews and kind of sad when I checked the reason.. people are mostly complaining about beeing forced to use multiple accounts when you really only need your Steam-account.. Rockstar Social Club and GFWL can be used in offline-mode without an account or activation and you can still play and safe your game just fine (just no multiplayer-mode I think).

In this aspect GTA 5 is much worse by forcing a rockstar-account and activation, yet nobody complains..