They can't do anything - they don't bother, and they can't checking who says the truth, and who just wants to rip off a game from someone else
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I did the same, but activated on my son's account by mistake. Wrote to Steam support on his behalf, they responded fairly quickly, said that it is our responsibility which account we activate keys on, but just this one time, out of good will, they removed the game from his account and made the key active again — so I activated it on mine.
Made me like Steam a little bit more, some nice people working there for sure. So worth a try in your case, without any guarantees.
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There you go, life is full of surprises (some of them — pleasant).
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Now I just feel bitter at how flippant Steam Support were with my Alien Colonial Marines issues. lol
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Yeah, I usually get good support experience from small teams only. Big companies usually don't want to spend on good support staff, and can afford losing a client, or two, or a thousand… So Valve definitely did surprise me on this one. I also had a really nice support chat with Amazon, but that's all for such lucky cases.
I hope at some point you'll have your share of nice support people too (or, better, no need to turn to support at all :D)
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I've had the same issue with my alt account with the same result :D In my experience steam support isn't all that bad :p
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That most likely came from the recent Humble Monthly. Was the game delivered as a gift link or a key?
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OK, that's worrisome. If it had been delivered as a gift link then you could be more assured that the person who gave it to you was the original purchaser, and they could have simply asked Humble to revoke the game from Steam and then once that was done sent you a new gift. The fact that they gave you a key means that they may have gotten the game from someone or somewhere else, so now fixing this is more difficult. I would go ahead and explain what happened and ask them if they got the game directly from Humble and see what they say.
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or they got it from humble bundle and gave the key rather than a gift link
quite common with DRM-free games
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^
generally if it's a giveaway i send the key; if it's a trade i send the gift link
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Out of habit, I tend to always send gift links whether trading or bundle splitting or giving games away, because it eliminates any chance that someone can claim that a key was used when it wasn't, or that I might make a mistake and send a used key.
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But you still cant proove that it wasnt used befoe. he could claim the gift and then say it was already claimed. so gift link or key doesnt matter in this regard
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It can matter in the sense that if you suspect foul play, for example the dear winner posting the received key on G2A, you can ask HB support to revoke the original and send you a new one. If it was a gift link, they are more inclined to believe you, AFAIK.
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But it doesnt matter to the fact og giving away or trading it. you still cant prove really you gave a working one
To the thing with support i have no knowledge since i never did anyhting with, but would wonder me if they really to the work without bigger reasons. but again there i dont know it and so its only guessing on my side.
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Delete your account, make a new one, travel to Mexico and eat tacos. Take some tacos to your country, sell them = profitz.
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I need more details, what's the profit margin on these tacos? Should I rent a food truck or find a place of business wherein I can peddle my wares? Any suggestions on taco suppliers? How do I keep them fresh?
I've deleted my account and booked the plane tickets but I need the details before Wednesday, thanks.
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u will have to buy the game. i wish u luck that it is a bundled game and not a full tier AAA game
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It's on sale at like three dozen people on the trade section for a CS:GO key at most… Apparently, it is not a particularly valuable game, despite its store price.
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The only solution is that you must buy the game and activate it in your account. You can try though to persuade the giveaway creator to ask humble bundle to cancel the key and give him another key to send you.
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Can humble bundle cancel the key and it gets revoked ?
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I've heard that it's possible. Just ask the giveaway creator. :P
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If they didn't get it from Humble and you need to buy the game, then here are some folks who are selling a copy:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/groupbuys/discussions/0/343785574527749418/
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/groupbuys/discussions/0/343785574527883400/
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If it didn't go well , i will consider getting it from them. Good price :D Thank you
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The trades section also has a lot of people selling it, although many ask for a CS:GO key instead of money.
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Any solutions?
- buy the game for your account
- scam someone and get that game
- give the ga creator $$$ and tell him to delete the GA
- hack sg and delete your win from the database
- hack steam and get a copy of that game
- enjoy 5 days of vacation on sg?
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- Yea Maybe
- No
- No
- Will take me years to learn hacking and it's not worth. Or I can just bribe a SG mod :D
- May get haunted by Gaben.... So NO
- I REALLY HATE YOU
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Hey!.... At least you and your friend can play together after you buy it... right?
but man, really that sucks
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no calling out technically means no calling out, not even yourself :P lolol =) <--obviously kidding here....
sry, that sux.. as many said though buy/trade for it really best bet.
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Hahaha .. I am sure I look like a total idiot for u now XD
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no, not at all.. actually sounds like a super easy mistake to make.. i redeem so fast and do log into my wifes account occasionally, i could easily make that mistake but luckily never have. and i was really only joking on the rule crap to just try and lighten your mood a little. =)
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and btw, the real rule really does only apply to calling out others. it is actually specific enough for that ^^
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Crusade against SGTools and at the very same time silently enter as much SGTools giveaways as you possibly can and take the winz. :3
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1) Ask your friend to join SG.
2) Ask them to enter every WWE 2K16 game.
3) Once they'll win it let them activate it on your account.
4) ???
5) Profit.
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But they can't enter the giveaways because they own the game. Plan is flawed, Mr. Owl.
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delete from their account
enter
win
regift
reactivate game
:3
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Yeah, what Mullins said. So long as the friend didn't have the game in their account during any previous sync with SG, staff shouldn't be able to detect that it was previously in account, if it even comes to that. So in theory that is an option.
It's, like, the most involved and unreliable option there is, but y'know, gotta do whatcha gotta do. :P
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Buy it. That's honestly the best, if not the only solution. Either trade for it or buy it at full price, then activate it to your account.
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How do you activate by error anyway ?
You are not supposed to share accounts...
You should use Family share, it is just safer and dedicated to sharing.
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I am playing CS:GO on his account .. Family share is of no use :p I already have cs:go
My friend won the same game too like few hours earlier and i was so hyped to install it and play it with him ,, but I screwed up ^^"
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If he won it too why didn't he activate it on his account? or why don't you activate in on yours?
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Its not the same friend :p
Edit : This is my friend that won the game https://www.steamgifts.com/user/Deathtitan77
And this is my friend account that I been playing ON and activated the game in it :p http://steamcommunity.com/id/mouse123cow
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Ok, it wasn't clear that they were 2 people.
Then get it from the group split of the monthly or a split of the build your 2k bundle .Whichever is cheaper.
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btw if You don't want any problem for giveaway creator and for Yourself, You may buy WWE on humble store, now -75% :)
hmm...
ONLY NEXT 3 DAYS WWE SUUUUUUUUUPEEEEEEEER PRICE!!!
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I did something very similar... activated key on wrong account. I ended up having to buy a copy to avoid the penalty of not having activated a win. It was a painful lesson, but not one I am likely to forget. The other option I considered was asking around/making a trade for the game and activating that. If you have some spare game keys you might be able to work out a trade.
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I remember doing something similar, traded a gift game to do a giveaway, ended up adding to my alt account library insteand of inventory. :|
Regarding you question, buy the game yourself, its the best option.
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How about you start a revolution against this rule?
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Ok so maybe this has been asked and answered but it's late and I can't be bothered to read "all the posts :-p" but how exactly did the key get redeemed on your "friends" account exactly? Anyway, good luck with figuring this snafu out...
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Only way is to buy a copy of the game yourself ...
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Actually you can get the key revoked from there :)
I did the same whit skullgirls, i mean i have on my account sukkligirls + ALL DLC and i dont know why when i entered the key i was going to give my friend it activated too, i send a message to steam and they revoked. "as One time only service"
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How long did it take for them to reply .
What exactly did u choose when contacting support ? I choose " duplicate key " topic and I am not sure if it's the right topic
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Mmm it took first ticket 3 hrs. They solved me the problem on the next day D:.
And yes i claimed it by Duplicate
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Title says it all.
Any solutions? Thank you :D
Edit : Steam Support revoked the key and I activated the game on my account. It took 3 days. ( Thanks Nabchanted and Antomas )
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