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Drake Hollow activation shows "Pocket Knife for Beta Testing"

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ashtwo

Won a Drake Hollow GA and activated the key.
Steam said game activated "Pocket Knife for Beta Testing"
https://imgur.com/a/6JxE2jt

I look at my activation history and it says the same thing.
Yet Drake Hollow is now in my library...

Just a little concerned about the word Beta. Anyone else running into to this?

3 years ago*

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BiGPorras

So, the game 'Drake Hollow' has appeared on your list? Or on your list you see "pocket knife"?
Can you play the game correctly? The final/gold version?

I wish you good luck and that everything ends good. :)

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ashtwo

Drake is in my library. And I have played it and got an achievement. I'm hoping that if I can get an achievement it means its full retail with bad activation wording.

Damn cute game! From someone who hasnt used that word before. I almost want to say its like a cross between World of Warcraft, Stranger Things, and how to train your dragon. They should make this into a MMORPG.

3 years ago
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Gainja

Fun fact: Drake Hollow was originally code named Pocket Knife. Twitter

I have no idea about the beta testing part, prolly just because it's an early key shrugs

steamdb - I don't know my way around steamdb, but maybe you don't get +1 because of it? See which subid you have activated and maybe you'll learn something.

3 years ago
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ashtwo

Thanks for the steamdb approach and fun fact. I submitted the key and nothing new came up.
Its a reassuring that under the Pocket Knife package depot it has "DrakeHollow/Binaries/Win64/DrakeHollow-Win64-Shipping.exe"

3 years ago
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BiGPorras

If all this information is very interesting. I am glad that everything points to a good end.

3 years ago
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PicoMan

This is normal. Keys that are straight from the developer can have different titles and frequently say "...for beta testing". I gave away a key for Resident Evil 7 that was from the developer/publisher and the winner said it activated as "harawata for beta testing". I looked up the word harawata and apparently it's japanese for "intestines" which was strange and funny but also made sense in the context of RE. I assume it's a way for devs to keep track of revenue so they separate retail keys from keys they give out themselves.

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BiGPorras

Good point and very good info, mate. So interesting.

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