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Conclusion of this text is: "Grey Market Shops forced us down as we cannot beat their prices. Digital sellers get not as good conditions [from the publishers] for their keys as sellers of Retail copies. [...] "
And this is what gray markets shop sell. Keys from cheap retail copies. I think, other shops may follow.
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This was my first thought, too, after I heard Gamesrepublic...
I know G2A and other resellers are an issue, but I wonder if another bigger elephant in the room is Humble Bundle's store getting bigger and offering 2-3 times the special event sales Steam does along with Greenman trying to play catch up to both of them.
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Absolutely... they've actually been a better store lately than a Bundle Site.
Indie Gala has been kicking ass on the bundle front but their store is still flooded with the lower tier of Steam shovelware.
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That's true. Last bundle I got off them was the borderlands one. The reason I like them though is because they have pretty good prices during sales. Picked up middle earth and dishonoured from their site during the last sale because of how low the prices were.
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Glad Gamesrepublic are gone. I asked them several times to delete my account with them and they never responded. You see what shitty customer service gets you? More companies should pay heed.
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Gamesrocket wasn't grey reseller? At least they asked scanned passport copy like they were.
Big publishers are starting to lock heavily physical copies to their regions. (2K, Activision, Capcom starting with Resident Evil 7) and physical is dying in many of regions too.
That will take care of that, sadly it means higher prices, since no grey reselling. Of course there's regions like Canada, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Japan that are like up to 20% less, though it would kill CD key sites profit when they can't sell newest games anymore for double or triple price of their buy-in price.
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In my opinion it wasn't. If I would do such shady business I wouldn't choose Germany as a headquarter for my company or any other EU country. But I would choose some other country far away from US, EU and these countries.
Then it was listed on some forums in Steam, like here without beeing edited out through steam, which - for me means, that they're legit.
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They are https://isthereanydeal.com/reviews/stores/#/filter:gamesrocket
But I cannot understand these bad reviews. If they ask for an identity verification it is IMHO to meet German laws for 18+ titles.
Never had a problem, they were and are trustworthy.
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The were listed in the past (at least for me) ... maybe only in EU1? I don't know...
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No, nexway customers
http://corporate.nexway.com/references/
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It's not entirely Steam-related but android game bundle site Ikoid is closing down, too, at the end of January, so if you purchased any of their bundles download the .apks while you can:
https://ikoid.com/
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First time hearing about it. Also site seems to be completely fucked up now,cant find anything.
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RIP Gamesrocket (& Gamesrepublic) another legit seller that goes bankrupt due to grey market resellers :/
Seems like http://www.gamersgate.com and http://www.startselect.com are one of the few 100% legit sellers left.
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Never used this site so I can't say but like Games Republic these legit sites can't compete against the grey market resellers.
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I just noticed I posted in the wrong thread. I ment to post in the Gamesrepublic thread not Gamesrocket :D
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Any point in "saving" the keys if you've already activated them (on steam)?
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I just noticed I posted in the wrong thread. I ment to post in the Gamesrepublic thread not Gamesrocket :D
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Looks like they have a new partner. Just got an email from them.
Dear customer,
a while ago we informed you that the business activities of the Gamesrocket shop would be closed down. Now we are thrilled to be able to announce that we managed to attract a competent and experienced partner willing to take over the business activities of Gamesrocket.
This is United Games GmbH that, just like Gamesrocket GmbH (In Liquidation), is located in Germany and sells official and licensed products only. In the course of the planned takeover on April 1st, 2017, we would like to transmit your customer data and order history to United Games GmbH in order to ensure access to orders already made by you. Transmitting the data does not mean you will receive advertising campaigns without being asked. The team behind Gamesrocket remains the same and will gladly keep on being available to you with full commitment and support.
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What's weird is that this 'United Games' company doesn't seem to exist.
(I've seen speculation because of the very similar names that it might be an offshoot of the game server hosting company United Gameserver https://united-gameserver.de/ , but that doesn't really seem too plausible to me)
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Wouldn't surprise me if this is the old management under a new name.
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Interesting, I know a company I worked for that switched between names every two years just to get some sort of tax relief from the government, because it's in EU law. After they joined a bigger company group they stopped doing that as they became more profitable and have more investors now.
Maybe Gamesrocket doing the same.
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