Should I trust keys still?

And no wormy, no posting trading cards here :P

Just because they asked for a photo of a CD key does not actually mean that the game was the cause of it, they simply do it to verify the accounts normally, and they will pick a random game. A similar situation happened with me with Nuclear Dawn from indieroyale, where they asked for photos of that, which naturally, I couldn't provide, and I immediately thought bad of indieroyale, but it turned out to be something else entirely. Keys are usually trustworthy though.

Well I buy all AAA games as keys and give them away or trade them as well. Sometimes you can get problems with keys but the cheap price is worth it.

I suggest that after that happened you should only trust keys either from Steam/Valve itself or bundle keys.

Personally i have never had problems with CD keys. Neither on Steam nor anywhere else.

Always watch if there is a region restriction and, if not sure, ask the shop (and screen it, just in case you might need it).

These are the shops i use without any problem:

gamekeysonline

Keymbo*

onlinekeystore

RPG services

Generally: watch out with shops also selling gold for games. Many of them sell russian keys which are forbidden to use/activate if you don´t live there. (RPG services is not doing so, unless marked)

So yeah, no problem with CD keys. Saves lots of money!

Theres a few websites that send you a picture along with the key but I dont remember which ones :(

So pretty much Im being paranoid about this now? So I shouldn't TRULY worry about cd keys.

Please purchase keys only from steam authorised resellers like green man, get games go and amazon. Avoid keys from Eastern Europe and any region with preferential pricing, the few dollars saved is just not worth the potential trouble.

Keys? Yes. Resellers, even very popular? HELL NO.

Even the biggest of them in Poland were selling Minecraft keys bought with stolen credit cards. Hundreds of people got banned. Sometimes they don't know, what they are really selling, but it's really not that fucking hard to think that it's suspicious, when the game can only be bought for official price and some random guys from Russia try to sell them for 1$ per key (Minecraft).

Thanks for the info guys!