Sniper Elite 3 (free DLC on preoder)

Just got an email from cdkeys:

Hi,
Sincere apologies for the issue that you have experienced with this title.
We are still in the process of investigating with our supplier and Steam as to how this has happened. We would like to stress that the codes were purchased from a legitimate source and that early signs indicate regional restrictions may have caused an issue.

We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience this issue has no doubt caused and will ensure this doesn't happen again in the future.
In the meantime, we have refunded your payment in full and will send over a £5 off voucher within the next 24 hours.

Will check Paypal tonight, but the £5 is welcome. Seems like these guys were not to blame at all to be honest. Will save my £5 voucher and will get from these guys again in a couple of days. I suspect that we can assume it is legit and they have sorted issues once they state that they have stock in again.
 
ElliorR said:
Maybe they shouldn't have bought the keys from Honest John down the market.
Click to expand...

It's Rebellion, they have stopped legit websites from selling the game and revoked all their keys.

If you go to their forum it tells people to buy it from Steam which is listed at £39.99 !!! sorry, but they can bend over and go **** themselves if they think that's fair. They also state that some of these keys were stolen, yeah I'll bet they were!
 
Same here. Got the code and preloaded.
Played through the first mission and was enjoying myself. Quit to get some food and got a message from steam telling me the game was removed. CDKEYS gave me refund + £5. Not there fault cannot say the same for rebellion.
Wait for the chrimbo sales and i'll get it for that £5 refund :D
 
Just played through the first mission too.
This game runs great maxed out. I like that they added a supersampling option. getting 70-100fps with it set to x4. Kill cam is much better than the previous games.
 
Me too, just played it for about 20mins, playing as "Elite". I like it and will probably play the Campaign over the weekend. I'm running everything at Ultra and looks great.

Getting used to the 3rd person pov will take some time, weapons feel right, setting is awesome as I've been looking to play a WWII theme game for a while now. I don't think I'll jump into MP or Co-op till I'm done with SP/Campaign tho...but that's just me.
 
eekfek said:
If you go to their forum it tells people to buy it from Steam which is listed at £39.99 !!! sorry, but they can bend over and go **** themselves if they think that's fair. They also state that some of these keys were stolen, yeah I'll bet they were!
Click to expand...

It's genuinely interesting that it's Rebellion that has blocked the keys.

I wonder how much they would normally have sold it to the non-steam resellers for?
 
From what I have been reading a number of keys where stolen so they have decided this is a great opportunity to bump up some profit. Revoked nearly 50 different sites keys that where not stolen including a few people from greenmangaming and told them all to use steam.

Now that is some proper dodgy business practice
 
Interesting blog post here from one of the guys at CJS



One of the biggest scams to hit the game industry is unfolding as I type this article. You may already be aware of it. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Sniper Elite Steam 3 CD Keys have been Illegally revoked and de-activated, by the game’s own developer, Rebellion. CJS CD Keys are lucky enough that we have not been affected by this problem. If we ever are, we will always provide customers with a full refund or a fully working key, but so far, so good. What’s not okay though, is that Rebellion appears to be trying to frame innocent retailers for their own doings, but we seek to find out the truth about the goings on.
Click to expand...


Can read it all here
http://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/blog/
 
Maybe Ubisoft stole them then passed them on to cdkeys retailers to deflect the heat from the Watch Dogs graphics downgrade scandal.
 
Very surprised by Rebellions decision regarding the keys. Hope they sort this out quickly for those affected.


Warsam71 said:
Mantle will soon be added to Sniper Elite III in an upcoming patch
Click to expand...

Thanks Sam.


Warsam71 said:
Me too, just played it for about 20mins, playing as "Elite". I like it and will probably play the Campaign over the weekend. I'm running everything at Ultra and looks great.

Getting used to the 3rd person pov will take some time, weapons feel right, setting is awesome as I've been looking to play a WWII theme game for a while now. I don't think I'll jump into MP or Co-op till I'm done with SP/Campaign tho...but that's just me.
Click to expand...

Same here, going to play the campaign first then some mp/co-op with LtMatt, he won't play this until Mantle is available though.
 
Bought the game from CDKeys, but the key was a duplicate. They refunded the amount and included a £5 discount. I proceeded to buy the game from Instant Gaming, but this was a duplicate also. They promptly resolved the problem by sending a replacement key, which activated successfully.

What a load of faff!
 
Been playing multiplayer and getting increasingly frustrated with god awful hitboxes and the breath shot going grey whenever I line someone up... screw this heap of crap, I hope mine gets revoked.
 
I don't know what to think,

But these CD key sites should be carefull.

I mean it's a free market at the moment but it doesn't have to be, DRM cd keys and games purchased from differnt countries having to be played over vpns all the time would be a pain.

Obviously the sensible fix is to raise the price of keys in different countries regardless of exchange rates Or to Lower the cost of games for the UK and US. It makes no sense that i can turn my chrome into a mexican vpn buy from origin for 1/2 the price. The game is either worth what its worth or it isn't the price shouldn't increase based on the economy of that country. seems to me like Russia/mexico and other countries needs to pay $10 dollars more and we need to pay $10 less and then no one loses out.

If they are discounting the price in other countries off the back of what the UK and US are willing to pay then they deserve to be screwed.
 
I got my sniper 3 key from simplycdkeys yesterday morning and it was working last night and surprised to still find it working this morning lol.
and ive had all the emails saying they have refunded and 4000 points lol
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom