Hatch and Slay
https://store.steampowered.com/app/428760/Hatch_and_Slay/
Fanatical Playlist 2 Bundle
Indiegala Friday Special #27
all duplicate keys
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sorry Lilly, can't remember if i'm on the right thread to report it, but it looks like all Morning Shift (iirc) games have been banned. those like Zenful Journey, Woodland Hike, Something Something Hike...
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Yes, Morning Shift Studios were banned 12 days ago, but keys weren't revoked and can still be redeemed.
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I bought a couple of DIG bundles with those keys in them - they do activate, but they activate as "game name for Betal Testing", so am a little worried they might end up revoked. Maybe just the dev unloading all the spare keys he created - tons of them been appearing on the Indiegala giveaway system.
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i think dev is gone and forever. i did enjoy, quite enjoy, the games but "dev acting" was shady as hell...
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Soul Valley from
DIG Weekly Bundle 190
DIG Weekly Bundle 598
Did not work (Fail/DuplicateActivationCode)
I'm guessing it will be the same for:
DIG Weekly Bundle 828
DIG Weekly Bundle 387
DIG Weekly Bundle 265
DIG Points Store (if it was ever sold there)
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The Hentai Memory revoked today from my account. The key was activated on (JUN 7, 2022)
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COME JOIN THE SHAME TRAIN ALL!
same game just revoked minutes ago. The key was activated on Feb 18, 2023.
No idea where I got the key from.
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I got it from OPQuests 2 years ago (on August 4th, 2022)
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Mine too. 9 JUN 2022. And I won the key here. Now I have to send a report to SG so my account doesn't get suspended, I guess
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same :/ activated at 30 Oct, 2022 and revoked today
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same here. it's happened just today. I got it from OPQuest like the rest of all users, i guess
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Maybe it would be a good idea to include this information in the FAQ or guidelines, or create an "announcement" thread containing this information?
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I'm not sure if it's going to be done as you suggested but it will be hard to track since the post you replied to is now deleted. I don't think it was bad to have it here, actually (besides doing what you suggested, which is a good idea).
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Restaurant Manager revoked today from my account. As far as I know, the key was activated on 05/06/2020, and I got the key from a GA.
It could come from Go Go Bundle Limited #60 or Bunch Keys Bundle #38 or Bunch Keys Bundle #23.
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A key I gave away from "Bunch Keys Bundle #38: Indie Quest" was revoked from the winner's account.
However, a key registered to my own account from "Bunch Keys Bundle #23: Lightning Fast" was not revoked (yet...).
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Mine revoked key was activated on June 1st 2019.
No clue where I had it from, I wasn't buying bundles back then.
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Currently your account is showing a non-actived win because of this, this could get you into trouble. So make sure to contact the GA creator to delete the giveaway. One of my winners did the same thing, and the GA was deleted very quickly.
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I have a revoked key from this group buy: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/groupbuys/discussions/0/1649917420744828866/
So definitely keys from Bunch Keys Bundle #38: Indie Quest has been revoked.
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I lost mine, from Bunch Keys #38.
On the one hand, nothing good was really lost...
On the other hand, I paid for the thing, so I'm a bit annoyed.
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Little Orpheus from Fanatical Into Games Bundle
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/ca8U5/fanatical-into-games-bundle
all unredeemed keys are coming back as dupe. I had 3.
Edit: Keys from Winter Mystery Bundle have also been dupe (December 2023). I replaced the key from the recent NSPCC Charity Bundle, and it activated just fine. Looks like the dev is bored and just revoking keys not even 12mos old.
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Are you asking for replacement keys? It's not been 12 months yet.
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I did... this is their response:
I am sorry you have duplicate keys!
I can see the order in question is fairly old, and some publishers are not keen on having unredeemed keys out in the wild so they remove them after a while.
We provide a warranty on our keys of 30 days. A key is valid unless somebody else redeems it, or the developers of the game remove the key from Steam, both will result in a 'duplicate key' message from Steam.
Unfortunately, I am unable to swap it for a new key, despite trying for you.
I am really sorry but we are not able to help with getting with this problem. Please ensure you redeem any other older keys you may have!
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Yeah pretty much what I expected. A 30 day warranty is not bad but hm... seriously a few months would be killing them?
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what? we paid for it. why can it just be taken away from us because we don't want to use it right away or whatever? for people in the EU this surely isn't gonna be acceptable lol
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I totally agree with you of course. I don't know if the EU consumer laws will save us in that particular situation though.
Edit: Actually after checking there is a minimum 2 year replacement warranty when buying products online that might apply here.
Despite Fanatical's claim that keys should be redeemed within 12 months to "minimize issues", the 2 year rule cannot be abridged or reduced by any terms of service.
So, EU citizens, tell Fanatical support they have to replace the keys.
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“These were Charity keys supplied to us for redemption on the customers account within 30 days in line with our terms and conditions.
I am sorry but we are not able to replace this Charity key after 1 year .”
Either fanatical or the dev giving to other people unredeemed keys.
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Checked my one key from Fanatical's "Into Games Bundle" - duped!!
Then checked my other key for Little Orpheus from Humble's "Türkiye-Syria Earthquake Relief Bundle" - successful activation!
So the "timebomb" is deliberate but strangely placed!
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Are Fanatical keys more likely to go dupe than Humble's?
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I had a case with Jack Move where the opposite happened: Humble's key got revoked but Fanatical's was still working. So you never know!
Oh, yeah, by the way after writing to support Humble gave me a new key, even though the bundle ended about 6 months before the dupe problem was discovered.
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I've noticed that Fanatical keys are more prone to dupe vs Humble. At least Humble had started putting expiration dates on the keys so at least we know ahead of time.
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I've hit a very unfortunate streak lately from Fanatical and I never had a single dupe with Humble even on oooold bundles so i was curious about what others experienced
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yep. they've gone downhill recently... along with the omen10 coupon not working and their ridiculous bundle pricing, I've not bought much on Fanatical.
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Well after they were bought up by Fandom, it was pretty much a matter of time until they hit rock bottom.
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Agent Awesome from Dollar Monster Bundle (2017) all unused keys revoked, I had more than 20
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Tried a spare copy back from 2016 (Kiss Ltd Publisher GameBundle) and it worked fine.
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Traded Hellcard from IGN+ and the other user said it was duplicate. Possible scammer or bad key from IGN. Can anybody confirm if they had issues with this title?
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No one posted any notice about this on Barter or on the game's Steam forum yet.
You could clear this up rather easily if you open a ticket to Steam support and ask for the activation date.
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I wasn't aware they give that information, I thought this was just some bogus excuse to avoid responsibility. I'll try and see how it goes. Thanks for the info.
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I've tried via the Steam Wallet route and asked the date of the activation for the code, but so far nothing.
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This past month I've tried it twice and they reply back due to their privacy policy they no longer provide the activation date and time. Might be a new policy as in the past they were able to give out the information.
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keys Phantaruk from bundles nemesis-bundle-3 ( https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/nemesis-bundle-3 ) was revoked. Today i checked about 100 purchased keys from this bundles and all keys was 'already used'.
Publisher Ultimate Games S.A. - scammer! Revoked legally purchased keys! On dev/publisher's site polyslash.com all contact emails not work (Your message wasn't delivered to <> because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail. - google robot said me)...
By purchasing games from publisher Ultimate Games S.A You support scammers in steam!
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I bought that bundle and the game hasn't been revoked from my account.
If you bought 100+ keys from that bundle I'm assuming it's from the grey market. One of the biggest problems with the grey market is you don't know where the keys from and if they were purchased using frauduant methods or even if the keys in question were stolen from somewhere.
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unused keys revoked
I purchased on https://www.bundlestars.com (fanatical.com), not from gray resellers...
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I am since 7 years on sg and if i remember correct were bundestars gone/renamed to fanatical before i joined sg.
So maybe, only maybe, you should activate (or do whatever) with keys in 7 years+.
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2017 September was this bundle https://barter.vg/bundle/2081/
2017 November bundlestars changed to fanatical
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sure you were here, Masa, when BundleStars renamed itself!
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no idea if this is the correct place to post it but got told to anyway
Restaurant Manager just got removed from my account had it via a trade since 2018
https://store.steampowered.com/app/724090/Restaurant_Manager/
There is or at least was a disccusion thread open about this on their page but now it won't open for me so cn't link it
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Thank you!
I think this is the discussion you are looking for: https://steamcommunity.com/app/724090/discussions/0/4415298540308486736/
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Keys for Double Dragon Trilogy from I'm pretty sure it was Indie Gala - DotEmu Bundle shows as duplcates for me.
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Same here, dupe with a newly-revealed key from that bundle. A key from the Fanatical "DotEmu Classics Bundle" bundle worked.
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The Last Express Gold Edition from Indie Gala DotEmu Bundle and Fanatical DotEmu Classics Bundle.
Pang Adventures from Fanatical DotEmu Classics Bundle. (Pang from IG DotEmu activated successfully.)
None of the other games in these bundles were duped - only the ones with cards. 🤔
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First sell games/bundles, got money for sold keys and next step revoking keys. Nice scam tactic... Write a complaint about the publisher in Steam support about abusing 'system for revoking keys'.
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Kairo showed as duplicate, not sure from which bundle I got it unfortunately.
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if it was like me, i got mine from Ubercrate a.k.a. Ucrate - all (unused) keys were revoked
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Ran:Lost Islands for Beta Testing (activated DECEMBER 2019) revoked
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most dev just write "Beta" or "promo" or "test" in the key description or the "subid" or whatever
so when they revoke it. steam support see that and can say "it was just a promo key"
and steam support dont care at all.
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Probably a dev / press key (considering it's not bundled and not even buyable).
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Unused keys for G Prime from Groupees Build a Bundle #41 seems to have been revoked.
The most recent trade on barter also report the same issue.
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Unused Lady of Dreams keys from DIG Bundle 1521 - POSITIVE turned out as duplicate.
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I can confirm my key for DIG Bundle 1317 - POSITIVE have ben revoked too (just revealed now).
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maybe because dev is an ** he removed the Game from steam already dec 2023, but only posted the announcement of the "Future" on 23th August (My bad)
and therefore "banned" all cd keys.. as way to many times they do, and steam (support) not giving a f***
of course, in the Announcement (https://steamcommunity.com/games/2116280/announcements/detail/4252047773014055729)
its written People who bought this Version will get Key for New Version.
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Thanks for pointing out that thread (and for commenting on it), I'll subscribe to it and see how things go.
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Careful with giving away/trading Mana Spark. There's a chance there was a batch of keys revoked by the dev.
I had one (revealed) key from the Humble Plug In Digital & Dear Villagers Bundle, which I hadn't used other than putting it on a spreadsheet for better organising, and once I tried trading it, it was duped.
Since it was a long time ago, I thought that maybe I had activated the key myself, so I contacted Steam support, and they said: "The CD Key for this game has been revoked by the game publisher. This can happen when a batch of keys are stolen, or perhaps the key was for a beta game that has shipped and you'll need to purchase it."
C̶o̶n̶t̶a̶c̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶H̶u̶m̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶r̶t̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶t̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶-̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶r̶e̶f̶u̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶p̶l̶a̶c̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶g̶i̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶I̶ ̶h̶a̶d̶ ̶a̶l̶r̶e̶a̶d̶y̶ ̶r̶e̶v̶e̶a̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶l̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶g̶o̶.
But it seems like I'm not the only one, judging from this comment a year ago.
EDIT: After insisting, Humble support provided a new working key.
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Got Miner Wars Arena GAME revoked from my steam account (so probably some keys would be revoked too)
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This thread is specifically about unredeemed keys.
You probably got it from IndieGala Gameplay Giveaway as well, right?
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According to Steam forums, they will apparently provide a new key when the game is out if you contact them through their discord.
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I got one. Contact Sneaky Rat on their discord. Took about 12 hours and a new key was provided.
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ok but you need to proof right ? i'm not more in ign+ and didn't take a screen of the revoked notification
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I think you can get a sort of copy of the notification from Steam support.
Steam -> Support -> scroll to the bottom and type the game name in "Search issues, features, and games" -> Click the product -> It's not in my library -> I'm having trouble with my retail CD key -> My CD key was revoked
When the key was redeemed, when it was revoked, and why should appear.
That should be enough proof.
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indeed , typing the name of the game show me the history with both date and i should find the old key on my ign account
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Thx for the details. I just messaged a screen dump of the revoke. Fingers crossed that it will work.
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Check the Steam discussion, instructions are there 😊
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I just revealed and got a duplicated key for Last Resort Island from Stand With Ukraine Charity Bundle.
Emailed Fanatical Support for replacement - hopefully I get one since the game is still being sold there.
Not sure if this is an isolated incident or not. Can someone with unrevealed key check theirs?
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Interesting to see how they react to this considering that is not a classic bundle bought at a fixed price but a reward for donating to charity.
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This is what they stated initially.
I can see the order in question is very old and as such it appears the keys have been removed from Steam by the developers of the game. Because of this the game is no longer redeemable.
We provide a warranty on our keys of 30 days. A key is valid unless somebody else redeems it, or the developers of the game remove the key from Steam, both will result in a 'duplicate key' message from Steam.
If we had replacement keys available then even after this period of time we would have swapped then for you, but our spare keys have also been removed from Steam.
I am sorry but we are not able to help with getting with this problem. Please ensure you redeem any other older keys you may have. You might find that different developers haven't removed the keys from Steam and the games will still activate.
After I pointed out that they still have the game on sale, they provided me a replacement key from the pool and urged me to activate it right away, which I did.
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That is really nice! Using that logic with Humble never works, they always insist that bundle keys are different from store keys…
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My newly revealed key for Blacksmith (https://store.steampowered.com/app/787840/) from Friday Special Bundle #74 is duplicated.
Perhaps this is also the case for the 2 recent trades on barter.
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Unused key for Empty Soul - S&S Edition from indiegala Pandemic Shield seen revoked
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Same for IG Indie Fleet Bundle as well
I started a thread in the discussion forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/464670/discussions/0/4845400193811417278/
I am not going to bother emailing IG support since the game is no longer on sale on IG Store and no chance of a different batch of keys to give as replacement.
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Valfaris just got revoked, it's been in a bunch of Fanatical Bundles
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Source? A Fanatical key of mine activated fine for a giveaway winner about an hour ago.
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Majority of keys were from Fanatical Killer Bundle 23 as users mention in there.
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Game's publisher is aware, and working on it.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/600130/discussions/0/4840896594185279881/
Edit: Licences should be restored now. If it hasn't been, try contacting Big Sugar support.
https://www.bigsugar.games/contact/
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Don't know if I count as a source, but my key just got revoked.
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Same, I won mine through Steam Gifts 2 years ago and it was revoked today
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I got one from a giveaway here. Will it count as win not activated now?
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Yes. Contact support, to set the win as "not received" for now, hoping that replacement keys will be provided or contact the giveaway creator and allow them to delete the giveaway.
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If you contact support and set the win to not received, you should also contact the giveaway's creator and explain why you are doing this, asking them to look for a replacement key.
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Same here. I contacted Fanatical support and they responded with:
"Hello,
We have become aware of the issue with Valfaris being revoked. We have reached out to the publisher who supplies our keys to investigate this issue.
While we do not have any additional information at this time, we are keeping support tickets open and will update you as soon as we have more information.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience and hope to have more information for you soon."
I purchased the game in November 2022 on Fanatical and activated it the same day. Today it got revoked out of nowhere :/
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I bought this game from Fanatical on November 2022 bundle with Slain for 1 dollars and today got revoked.
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Good to know. I still have mine on my account but will not be so surprised if this happens. Dont remember source of my key but I hope it will be sorted out for people.
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Wow, AFAIR there are a lot of Valfaris giveaways on the Community Train X... That could be quite a mess 😓
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No, only the keys from fanatical on 2022 got revoked. I did a GA of the game from Build your own Wonder Bundle April 2024 and the winner still has it.
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Same here, game is gone... not in Library.
Bought on 25 November 2022 Double Pack (with Slain) on Fanatical... wow then! :(
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And now restored, in my Library is visible now :)
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Lists to use:
Unused Keys Revoked: https://barter.vg/notices/513
Revoked (Dev): https://barter.vg/notices/362
Revoked (DMCA): https://barter.vg/notices/361
Duplicates: https://barter.vg/notices/372
If you want this information for one game specifically, you can find it under the "Notices" section for the Barter entry of that game.
(Example: https://barter.vg/i/42708/ then scroll down to "Notices": you'll see the red notice "Revoked (Dev) ⌫"; mouseovering it will give you some more info)
Thanks to everyone who reported their key revocations here. Please continue reporting them here. You folks are awesome!
Due to character limit, time constraints and having to manually create the chart rows, it's very difficult to keep a list on revocations on SteamGifts. Since I am the one managing these notices on Barter anyway, I thought it would be convenient to centralize the reports from SteamGifts and trade offers into one place and Barter proved to be a good solution for that because of its bundles and game database.
The below lists will not be updated on SG any more, but all your reports will be reflected on Barter, so please continue reporting them.
Previous links, for reference:
A list of games completely revoked from your library after activation
A list of games whose unredeemed keys were revoked (the big chart that was previously in this thread was moved here)
More games with invalidated keys can be found here.
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