R* GTA V Retail key

Don't bust my nuts, mate :/

Yeah, I don't recall them ever being listed for individual sale, either. But I believe the complete pack was available as a key for a duration on a small number of sites (a recollection both the thread I linked and the user comments below appear to support). May still be able to get them through grey market, but I imagine they'd be as overpriced as old gift copies would be. Rather an extreme measure to take for games that can still be downloaded DRM-free for free.

Sweet, I didn’t know that, thanks. Must have been an old bundle. I bought the bundle several years ago that had 3, VC, and SA, maybe even 4? It would be cool for Rockstar to make them available again

Early on I recall that Bethesda indicated they'd probably eventually be fully moving towards launcher exlusivity, but after things went sideways with both the launcher and FO76, I think that plan was dropped. Plenty of Bethesda games have widespread Steam key availability, be that first-party games [Elder Scrolls, Fallout] or those from their subsidary developers [eg, Arkane, ID], so they're not historically opposed to Steam keys in any way. You can, of course, now find non-Steam keys, and perhaps they are still moving ahead with exclusivity with newer games, but at the very least they don't appear as though they'll be removing the availability of earlier Steam keys.

[I did take a look, and I'm not seeing any steam keys for Youngblood, so yeah: Definitely gotta check into those newer games.]

EA officially cut off with Valve, leaving only a few older games on the launcher, so it's hard to really put a pin on them as being opposed to Steam keys, since properly speaking they're just opposed to Steam itself. The games they left on Steam have had Steam keys [at the very least, through Humble bundles], so it doesn't seem as though they're opposed to that aspect of it.

Ubisoft actually not only sells Steam keys on their website, they've actually made at least one game that is exclusive to Steam [due to it requiring Steamworks for multiplayer]. Ubisoft is usually pretty okay with their games being Steam keys, though they do make a point of making sure their games activate through Uplay regardless of which client you activate them on.

In short, all the ones you mentioned ARE worth mentioning, but I intentionally stripped them out of my original post due to them not being quite the same in their reliablity of exclusivity. ^.^

Had a friend who found an old Win98 laptop in a thrift store for $5, got a new battery online, and uses it to play all those old DOS and Windows 9x games. The computer was old enough to be Pre-XP but new enough to have a USB port and CDROM drive. I think he also replaced the HDD with a compact flash adapter.