The problem is that it isn’t stolen, counterfeit or anything if the sort.
Buying on sale is perfectly legal. On top of that, in this case, they also banned keys that the publisher sold directly to a reseller, not a reseller that bought it on sale pretending to be a regular customer. Granted, they are going back on that and it was largely a mistake, it just shows exactly what’s wrong with all this.
The fact is that if a key is sold by the publisher and ends up in my possession, and I activate it and it’s valid since it was bought legally and is an official key, then that’s the end of it.
They shouldn’t get to have a say in the transactions along the way. The whole reasoning for it is petty excuses. It doesn’t matter the effects, they can find solutions that don’t associate massive risks with using second hand shops for fuck sakes.
You know that bullshit where if you buy a second hand Tesla, a bunch of the software stops working even though it has a lifetime membership since its associated with the person and not the car, this is the exact same kind of bullshit.
We should be able to turn our games into keys whenever we want and trade them with friends ffs. Why are you advocating for taking keys offline just because of who’s hand it went through when they were bought perfectly legally?
Why are you advocating for taking keys offline just because of who’s hand it went through when they were bought perfectly legally?
Buying keys on Steam to resell them is directly against their policy specifically so that developers feel comfortable putting products on sale. If a key was purchased by a reseller from Steam then they can legally use it, however they can’t resell it. Many do. They’re the one doing something wrong and fucking people over, in order to insert themselves as an unofficial middle man and leech money.
You are defending a wrong (taking perfectly valid keys offline) because of a group abusing it in a legal manner (buying excess keys).
They could find solutions that don’t spit on our ownership rights.
It’s ToS abuse imo, not really defendable. Steam is getting dragged into court because of shit like this. The breach of ethics involved in trying to dictate the use of keys is far greater than the one committed by the reseller imo. They can only do this because of the quasi monopoly they have.
I really think this is the steam pink google effect. If it was Microsoft and Activision behind it, everyone would be livid imo.
I don’t have some strange love for Steam. It was the dev who decided to do it, and the people need to get a refund through the storefront they chose to use.
The problem is that it isn’t stolen, counterfeit or anything if the sort.
Buying on sale is perfectly legal. On top of that, in this case, they also banned keys that the publisher sold directly to a reseller, not a reseller that bought it on sale pretending to be a regular customer. Granted, they are going back on that and it was largely a mistake, it just shows exactly what’s wrong with all this.
The fact is that if a key is sold by the publisher and ends up in my possession, and I activate it and it’s valid since it was bought legally and is an official key, then that’s the end of it.
They shouldn’t get to have a say in the transactions along the way. The whole reasoning for it is petty excuses. It doesn’t matter the effects, they can find solutions that don’t associate massive risks with using second hand shops for fuck sakes.
You know that bullshit where if you buy a second hand Tesla, a bunch of the software stops working even though it has a lifetime membership since its associated with the person and not the car, this is the exact same kind of bullshit.
We should be able to turn our games into keys whenever we want and trade them with friends ffs. Why are you advocating for taking keys offline just because of who’s hand it went through when they were bought perfectly legally?
Buying keys on Steam to resell them is directly against their policy specifically so that developers feel comfortable putting products on sale. If a key was purchased by a reseller from Steam then they can legally use it, however they can’t resell it. Many do. They’re the one doing something wrong and fucking people over, in order to insert themselves as an unofficial middle man and leech money.
You are defending a wrong (taking perfectly valid keys offline) because of a group abusing it in a legal manner (buying excess keys).
They could find solutions that don’t spit on our ownership rights.
It’s ToS abuse imo, not really defendable. Steam is getting dragged into court because of shit like this. The breach of ethics involved in trying to dictate the use of keys is far greater than the one committed by the reseller imo. They can only do this because of the quasi monopoly they have.
I really think this is the steam pink google effect. If it was Microsoft and Activision behind it, everyone would be livid imo.
I don’t have some strange love for Steam. It was the dev who decided to do it, and the people need to get a refund through the storefront they chose to use.