Yep. It's unfortunate, but the scam is increasingly well known.
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Funny, I was just reading this on Reddit a few minutes ago. Several people in the thread are saying they're having similar issues so maybe there's just a problem with some of the keys or something.
The more likely scenario is that you got scammed. The guy you got Starbound from probably either
A. Bought it with a stolen credit card, or
B. Issued a chargeback
at which point Humble would have contacted Valve and told them to remove that copy of Starbound since it wasn't properly paid for.
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For a minute I thought this was for a discount on Starbound but it wasn't which left me soooooo depressed, it made me get fish eyes just reading the OP and my brain kept repeating ignore ignore useless information. welp it's bed time so nite nite.
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I heard they do that only once per account, and if you get scammed like that again, they won't help you.
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I just had two of my games revoked. Pretty sure I got them from the same trader although I've forgotten which one it was..
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Ever since the humble site introduced credit cards as a payment option, a lot more of this was bound to happen. That's why I don't trade humble stuff any more, if I want it I buy it. Even though most the time I can get the stuff cheaper from other sites.
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PayPal checks credit cards a lot of the time though, so it's harder work for the scamer...
Scammer just need to add credit card data once! It's even easier than direct purchase from CC, where you have to enter CC data every time you buy something.
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That'll take a good few months (as in 5/6) I fear
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they do, else they would not take the time to contact Steam to have the games removed.
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It's unfortunate that the scammer will never be marked on SR due to their policy of not investigating key/gift link scams.
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Credit card fraud is popular now with HB trades. Also , I never seen steam app look like this before . O.o
Edit : never mind . Knew the skin.
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So what do you keep in that "American" folder on your desktop?
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I imagine it is pictures of eagles and George Bush...as well as other cool 'Merica stuff
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I have a folder like that but I would need like 6 screenshots to show my collection
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I was underestimating by saying 6 screenshots...I have a total of 6tb worth of movies, games, tv shows, ebooks, music and pretty much everything else that you can imagine...I am a bit of a hoarder when it comes to digital media.
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good thing? this guy got screwed by them pulling his key...Starbound is not an easy thing to let go of..
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I think that they should definitely punish the people who are defrauding the charity. My comment was in response to how insensitive your statement was to the guy who just lost an awesome game due to some other shady individual.
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Please guys & gals be careful when trading someone with a Starbound key from Humble Bundle... I traded one of my games last month for a Humble Bundle Starbound key, logged in just to get a notice from Steam that the game is gone from my library. Such a sad day indeed...
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