Steam pricing v CD keys etc...
- Thread starter easyrider
- Start date
At 6.99 though who cares !
I did take a look at the Halloween sale and was not impressed. They used to be great fun and great events . Buying games you never play for buttons lol
Keys on the "Grey" sites are from all sorts of different sources and so supply can vary. I sold 6 x Doom 3 keys myself on Kinguin for example and wasn't particularly bothered about the getting the best price as they were free with GFX cards.
I buy some on Steam depending if it's cheaper, sometimes in sale it's cheaper, more so if like me you use a VPN on a secondary account for cheaper games, I don't really have a backlog of games so even if it did get banned I'd be out £15 at best on the game I'm currently playing.
You can't compare the two. One is licensed to sell the games where as the other isn't.
There is a reason CDKeys prices are constantly being changed. Authorised stores don't have prices that change unless its a sale.
There is a reason CDKeys prices are constantly being changed. Authorised stores don't have prices that change unless its a sale.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 9 Nov 2009
- Posts
- 25,341
- Location
- Planet Earth
Avoid them for the timebeing!! I had used them on and off before,and had been fine. I bought a game key a few weeks ago,for something which was released in the last week. It never came - so queried their CS a few days ago. No answer outside an automated E-mail. Waited 24 hours,asked what was happening. Used social media to contact them no answer,and then looked on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdkeys?lang=en
LMAO,loads of people not receiving their keys,sometimes upto 4 days after a CS query,there was no anwser!! No answering of CS.
Then saw this:
It seems they are having major issues now,so are having a heavy level of CS queries. That tells me they are not delivering keys.
So after two working days in Dubai(this is where they are located),I had no response. Then I decided to contact them via Paypal mediation. Waited another working day and nothing. So at this point I had used e-mail,social media and Paypal to contact them. The joke is before using Paypal to contact them they say it normally takes around 2 hours for a response. LMAO.
Then I had to escalate it to a claim and got my refund.
So for the time-being avoid them.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdkeys?lang=en
LMAO,loads of people not receiving their keys,sometimes upto 4 days after a CS query,there was no anwser!! No answering of CS.
Then saw this:
It seems they are having major issues now,so are having a heavy level of CS queries. That tells me they are not delivering keys.
So after two working days in Dubai(this is where they are located),I had no response. Then I decided to contact them via Paypal mediation. Waited another working day and nothing. So at this point I had used e-mail,social media and Paypal to contact them. The joke is before using Paypal to contact them they say it normally takes around 2 hours for a response. LMAO.
Then I had to escalate it to a claim and got my refund.
So for the time-being avoid them.
Last edited:
Soldato
- Joined
- 25 Jun 2006
- Posts
- 4,363
Used CD keys for ages and they have been brilliant tbh. Only issue I have was very recently where I ordered a psn plus voucher for my son and it was already used. Mailed them and within a day they sent another straight away no questions asked.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 9 Nov 2009
- Posts
- 25,341
- Location
- Planet Earth
I used them for ages on and off too,and this is what they said on their Twitter:
They are having issues now,and that is down to non-delivery of keys.
Edit!!
Check the images in this thread:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/be-wary-of-cdkeys.18836037/
Last edited:
If prices are close enough then I will get via Steam (Uplay / Origins etc) themselves. However usually only the case with new games it seems. Older titles usually seem to be much cheaper with Keysites. CDKeys is normal go to place, but recently picked up few games from voidu
I don't care if Steam prices are 5x higher than these dodgy sites like CD Keys. I used them once and got the scare of my life when the key wasn't instantaneous and they wanted to know all sorts of things like mobile phone number, etc. Never again.
Not anymore no, not since their sales have died. Steam charges €60 for a game so no, you would have to be mad to pay that when the same game is on CD Keys for around half the price.
I don't fully understand why people buy on Steam, I suppose it's brand loyalty (aka Apple or Nvidia etc. - which these companies know they can charge extra for) or else they are afraid to use a CD key site as they have not used one before. But yes it does seem mad paying so much extra for it on steam. I suppose a lot of older people or people who aren't really tech-savvy can rely on Steam instead of a CD key site they are not familiar with.