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So either fanatical fked something up and the dev saw himself forced to revoke the keys OR the dev changed his mind and didnt want to give then away for too cheap and trying to get out of the deal with fanatical by them canceling the contract after this comes out - BUT that could ruin a small dev so why would he do it? .... I personaly see fanatical more and more critical lately (new premium bundle is a flatout scam) so i think maybe fanatical didnt keep their part of the contract with this dev? ...Just some thoughts about that^^
But the keys were banned, because stolen on the "black market". They were purchased using stolen credit cards to sell at third-party stores.
It's not a legit shop? You're not sold your game keys here?
https://www.fanatical.com/
Do you replace the key YOU revoked ???
Thanks
(Fanatical Customer Service Area)
Jun 8, 2022, 09:57 GMT+1
Hello,
Thank you for getting in contact with us.
I am sorry you have duplicate keys.
I can see the order in question is very old and as such it appears the keys have been removed from Steam by the developers of the game. Because of this the game is no longer redeemable.
We provide a warranty on our keys of 30 days. A key is valid unless somebody else redeems it, or the developers of the game remove the key from Steam, both will result in a 'duplicate key' message from Steam.
If we had replacement keys available then even after this period of time we would have swapped then for you, but our spare keys have also been removed from Steam.
I am sorry but we are not able to help with getting with this problem. Please ensure you redeem any other older keys you may have. You might find that different developers haven't removed the keys from Steam and the games will still activate.
Fanatical.com
After that I see this developer response and am scratching my head on this . .so someone somehow got these unclaimed keys numbers and sold them on another 3rd party site or something. I'm not certain how this works with these sites but fanatical was formally known as BundleStars and still going strong as Fanatical .. not sure how developers work with these storefronts and bundles but are they purchasing these outright to give away on their sites somehow? I'm sorta scratching my head on this one being called a blackmarket but mkay.
The reason is simple: the dev sold you a key and after some time he invalidated all sold keys.
So this is close to a scam. You're paid for this and you've been cheated.
This can be a mistake and I had similar problems with other games. But their authors always gave me a replacement key. And I hear a "sorry".
Just so this does not stand in the room
THE DEV itself was scammed by the previous publisher and the previous publisher stole a lot of keys before THIS dev the ORIGINAl dev of the game got the game back to himself.
He then revoked all keys the old publisher stole because the original dev never got money from it.
SO YES Fanatical had stolen keys since the dev is russian and can`t speak english well he explained it in the simplest term understandable. which is a shame since it created confusion.
The developer still has not answered the question of whether the keys sold by Fanatical were stolen (purchase through a stolen credit card).
The Developer will probabaly not answer ever again. I would assume.
But my answer answer this the keys from fanatical where stolen by the old publsiher (The original owner never sold keys to key selling websites) so every single key that you did not get from steam is a stolen key, he said stoen / credit card because he is lacking the better word to describe it because of his bad english.
The keys were legally transferred and legally sold. That something didn't work out between the two is their internal matter. We still don't know WHO he transferred those keys to and WHY he received any payment. Maybe for the keys from Fanatical he received and from the sales on other sites he didn't get any more?
I gave my key and the developer did not respond in any way.
So this is a scam. Sold a keys and revoke them later.
YOU did not understand.
THE original owner of this game, did not SELL ANYKEYS whatsoever to outside of steam every single key that was outside of steam was illegal.
The previous publisher has just generated dozen and dozen of keys saved them and never gave them back even after they finally lost the right to the game.
After they lost the right to the game they keep selling steam keys to key reseller even though thoes keys where illegal the owner of the game has never gotten the money for it.
SO IF YOU have problems with the key contact fanatical because they got the keys from a scammer and not the other way arround.
The developer provided someone (a distributor?) with an account of his game and allowed the generation and sale of keys. The fact that he did not see to the business is only his fault.
Blaming the problems on buyers of legitimate keys is unethical. The only person at fault here is the developer. He is the one who provided access to the account and ensured that the distributor could sell the keys. Their mutual animosities should not interest anyone. That's what the courts are for, and that's where he should assert his rights.
The cancellation of legally purchased keys is a scam and it is cheating buyers by the developer.
Ahh I see the problem. Nono the distributor was not ALLOWED to create new keys. He did it without legal rights. And that is where this is coming from.
Hm ok last time I am trying to explain in simple terms.
The one how created the game got screwd over by a company
The creator never allowed to sell steam keys outside of steam
he sued and won
the moment he won and the game was supposed to be handed over the old publisher created a ton of keys and keept them without saying the have them.
the creator gets back the game and can finally earn money with his own game.
The old publisher sells of the keys they illegaly created to key reseller such as fanatic or gamesplanet.com etc etc
the creator having found out blocks the keys so the websites need to stop selling.
if you got a key from that website fanatic or whever write a support tell them what happend and get your money back !