What is the score with cd key resellers on steam?

[Efour]

I thought the issue arrived for example when you used/activated a Russian region CD key on say a UK based Steam account.

Im sure if Valve investigated their users CD keys properly half of peoples games would come from grey or not quiet the right region.

The key sites ive bought from clearly say the region from which the media is meant to have come from (and if it needed a proxy to activate it) Those were the ones that most of the Steam talk was aimed at. They could potentially very easily remove it if they "caught" you bypassing the regional pricing.

I think its a colossal con tbh.

 

[garym81]

I used cdkeys for the first time this week. Got the code quickly, and it was all very easy. I daren't visit the site for a while though...my credit card would get a hammering!

 

[Sinny]

Hi

I want to buy dying light, but its £40 on steam.
£25 on Amazon for a retail disc copy

Or CDkeys are selling the steam key for £17

Im tempted to buy the cd key, but have there been a load of cd key bans etc on steam lately?

Not sure of the situation etc.

Just make sure you buy a region free version, I usually only buy from British sellers, probably makes it 50p more but I don't mind.

 

[Doogles]

Keys are cheap and never had a problem so I don't really care to much if they are not legit, if they are illegal then Steam/Origin/Uplay should stop the codes working and let me get into contact with the key seller which would eventually put them out of business anyway after everyone does a chargeback with paypal.

 

[regulus]

I buy 99% of my games like this. In fact, the last game I bought directly on Steam was The Witcher 3 as I had a discount for owning both previous games and paid £25. Before that I bought The Witcher 2 on the summer sale. Two games in 5-6 years. Before that I pirated everything due to high prices for crap 80% of the time. At least now when I buy a game for 10-20 bucks and it's rubbish I don't feel so ... violated

In my opinion these cd keys sites help the publishers/developers get more sales and they know it. Take Dying Light as an example. $100 on Steam here in NZ. I grabbed the torrent. I have money, a fair amount of it, but I ain't paying $100 for ANY game unless can also fondle my nuts at night. Then I saw this thread and realise that I can grab the same game for $35. That made it palatable and I bought it yesterday and deleted the torrent. It's now downloading. Same goes for GTA V. Over a $100 here in NZ, torrent again. Saw it cdkeys (I think) for half the price and grabbed it. Torrent deleted. I have many more examples and I'm just one guy. I bet there's 1000s like me out there. Just from those two examples that's well over £50 now go to the developers or publishers due to being able to buy the game cheaper. £50 they never would've had otherwise. Times that by 50k or 100k and you're suddenly talking serious money.

Also got Shadow of Mordor on torrent but haven't played it yet. Funnily enough, saw it on cdkeys for $11 yesterday. I'm going to buy it too.