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I made giveaways for Prey and 007 Legends after it was removed and still got the CV
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Really? I still have a ticket open since umm ~3 months back about loosing 50$ CV because I gave away 5x copies of Kings Quest Chapter 1 that was later removed/f2p and dev didn't compensate previous buyers with nothing, not even a coupon for the full chapter afaik.
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Free is just "retail price $0". As with any retail price, SG only references the current listing for it.
With removed games, the retail price hasn't actually changed, it's just no longer able to be referenced.
Even there, according to SG staff, they only manually set the price when they're certain the game will not ever reappear on Steam [which is why games like Mafia 2 remained at $0, because there was the expectation (which has since been fulfilled) that it would return to Steam].
Meanwhile, I wonder if we'll ever give up on the promised Two Brothers rerelease..the developers refuse to even comment on that anymore. -.-; (See Delta's comment below)
Flip side, there are plenty of games that report a retail price of $0 that don't actually have a retail price of $0, and aren't removed [eg, Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey], so there's definitely a weird quirk in how SG staff approaches those games.
As far as the games that went f2p- whether you bought them for yourself [as I have many, unfortunately], or put them up for giveaway, you're getting screwed by the developer either way- and not by SG.
It's not really SG's responsibility to fix the developer's unwillingness to provide refunds for their change in approach, in the first place.
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Hmm... that explains why my GA for the Sims Medieval from 3 years ago now sits at a big fat zero points. Was wondering about the inconsistencies in regard to removed games, that's good to know.
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Meanwhile, I wonder if we'll ever give up on the promised Two Brothers rerelease.. the developers refuse to even comment on that anymore. -.-;
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Thank you for bringing that to my attention!
I've been checking up on the progress every so often, and never stumbled across that blog, so I definitely stand corrected on my earlier assertion. That's definitely encouraging- I appreciate the heads up. ^.^
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Depends when, if it gets readded etc. There are plenty of copies being bought, since the removal was announced, so the price will take long to rise.
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guessing:
in a year from now 7$ - 10$, in two years 15 - 30$ ... the game itself is apparently good and famous enough
unless:
it gets re-listed on steam ... which is kinda likely as the game should probably be worth re-listing
as reference:
https://www.g2a.com/the-chronicles-of-narnia-prince-caspian-steam-cd-key-global.html
^ this crap got removed about a year ago and sells already for 3 - 6 times the price of the its lowest sale
https://www.g2a.com/virtua-tennis-4-steam-cd-key-global.html
^ also this roughly gone from the steam store since a year or so
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Bit pricey for a Narnia key from an unauthorised seller. Funstock Digital still has copies and I've seen it hit 75% off a few times which is less than the G2A price by a decent margin, and it might've gone even cheaper than that.
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Except, when it goes on sale on Funstock Digital the price on G2A also drops and is cheaper than Funstock.
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Would it be better to buy key copies or gift copies of the game? I'm almost certain that Gift copies usually sell for more as time goes on, unless of course with a few exceptions. However, I was wondering because I could buy a whole bunch of either key or gift
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You're right about gift copies selling for more. They're also safer. If something were to happen to the key (it getting leaked somehow or a key gen generating it or something like that) then there would be no way for you to know until it's too late, but with a gift copy, well, you'll always know if it works or not.
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If you want to know how much traders will ask after it'll be removed from sale, well, only time will tell, but it surely won't be cheap.
Traders with rare copies of removed games might get greedy; Mafia 1, for example, goes for hundreds of keys (at $2 per key, that's a lot).
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This one won't exactly be rare since everyone knows about the removal
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thanks for the tip, i will buy it for myself tommorow
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The gane will be gone by then. If you want a copy, best to buy one from Steam now since it will be delisted after the sale ends.
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I know but the sale end in 22 hours, so i have time. I live in EU so the sale will be for me still tommorow.
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Not much. Only a handful of peeps collect removed games and all those who currently collect them has a copy and maybe a few more. Unless you are willing to wait years, I wouldnt bother.
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It'll be cheap since many people knew about the removal and it was put on a 85% discount on three sites, including Steam. (Which, by the way, will push it to bundled status on this site, so if someone bought it at Indiegala or HB and didn't make a giveaway up to yesterday, they can kiss their CV goodbye.)
Probably will go around for 2-3 USD initially and stay there for a while.
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Different companies behind that. It will likely happen someday, but we won't know when.
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Are you sure the keys will be able to be used after the removal of the game?
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