Borderlands - Zombie Island of Dr Ned key

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So, Gearbox moved first Borderlands into Steamworks

And cus of that they added two features

First - you can obtain a Steam copy of Borderlands by using your retail Disc

Second - all keys bought from outside of Steam can be activated at Steam to add DLC

support.2k.com/hc/en-us/articles/201967707-2K-Online-Server-Migration-from-GameSpy-Technology

Anyway, I have two keys - one for Zombie Island, second for Knoxx Armory

I've checked both. While the Armory key doesnt work (invalid key), the Zombie key seems two work - Steam gives me info that I already have this product (tho it doesnt give the product name). And I have it because I bought Steam version of BL GOTY

Anyway, my question is - would it be safe to create a private giveaway for this Zombie DLC and give a link in in a forum topic with warning that this key doesnt have to work for 100% ?

Im asking cus well, I have it, Steam recognize it as vaild key and basically I dont have anyone to give that key for so I thought about making giveaway

It would be good if any SG staff can answer this :)

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tciulo

just curious: how does steam 'recognize it as valid key' ? the moment you check it, isn't it claimed and therefore not usable any more?

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Kafar

As I said in the topic - I already have Borderlands GOTY in my library cus I bought it on Steam

If you enter a key for a game that you already own, Steam wont redeem the key but instead pop a window with msg that you already own the game

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tciulo

my bad I'd misread that part, didn't notice the goty thing. if that's the message you get, the key is probably usable so you may create a ga.
though if I were in your position I'd ask support first if that's ok for you to create a ga with a key you have no reason to think invalid but obviously no way to check if works. you may then write that it's approved by support in the ga description
good luck and thank you for the heads up: I didn't know I could use my retail copy of borderlands to activate on steam :)

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Kafar

Yeah, nice move from Gearbox with that "free" copy of BL Steam version

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MaraKalat

Does this only work for PC copies of Borderlands 1?
Because I have a disc for the 360 GOTY edition lying around somewhere...

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