Natalya (已封鎖) 2021 年 8 月 27 日 下午 11:40
How do people get steam keys?
how?
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wuddih 2021 年 8 月 28 日 上午 12:40 
the normal and optimal path of a Steam key towards a customer via a 3rd party store (retailer)

1) the product owner(developer/publisher) requests a batch of Steam keys in their partner interface.
2) if everything is fine with the request, the receive their batch of Steam keys.
3) the product owner has a contract with a retailer, either prepaid or fulfilment conditions.
4) they send the the Steam keys to the retailer or have a own system in place where the retailer can request Steam keys on their own behalf.
5) a customer of the retailer the product and the retailer delivers the Steam key to customer.
6) the retailer will document the Steam key as used for themselves and sometimes report it back the the product owner immediately or after fulfilment or periodically, sometimes via that "own system in place"
7) the customer can then activate the key on Steam.
8) in case a purchase was fraudulent the retailer may also document the Steam key as that and may report it back to the product owner, so they may revoke the key (the product owner is the only one that can revoke keys on Steam), sometimes done via that "own system in place".
8a) the non-customer gets a message in Steam that the product has been removed from their account.

path above is the for you optimal path that will cause the least amount of possible problems.
thing is, you can only know about how this process works, not if it really was done this way.

there are license management companies that act as a 3rd party and then retailers make their contracts with them, making them the 4th party.
this is still mostly fine and you wont notice anything but it is one added link in the chain, so there is one more failure point.

i refrain from calling any store "authorized" because only if a contract is directly made between the product owner and the retailer, this may be called "authorized" but the customer never knows that.

and every store that is always proclaimed as "authorized" by parrots here on the forums that is mentioned on isthereanydeal.com has done the following:

mass buying Steam keys from other retailers and reselling them on their own store.
either with knowledge of the retailer, like it was a bailout to get a fulfilment condition done or "maliciously" to just stock up their own supply.
this is of course unauthorized as the product owner was not involved and it breaks the terms of service of the retailer and as bad as this is, this will mostly be unnoticed if the keys are simply managed correctly.

this being said, stay away from grey marketplace sites, as a customer or a seller.

anyway...
i used a lot of 3rd party stores but these days i get my keys mostly from the dev.
Shadow 2021 年 8 月 28 日 上午 2:43 
引用自 Miss Ann Thrope
From third-party key seller stores.

I'd recommend using legit ones like Humble Bundle, Fanatical and Green Man Gaming. A full list of stores can be found on isthereanydeal.com.
honestly never heard of that site i just use g2a
Callahan420 2021 年 8 月 28 日 上午 4:00 
引用自 44
引用自 Miss Ann Thrope
From third-party key seller stores.

I'd recommend using legit ones like Humble Bundle, Fanatical and Green Man Gaming. A full list of stores can be found on isthereanydeal.com.
honestly never heard of that site i just use g2a

That site is not a reputable site and why it is not listed @ isthereanydeal.com
Shadow 2021 年 8 月 28 日 上午 4:18 
引用自 Callahan420
引用自 44
honestly never heard of that site i just use g2a

That site is not a reputable site and why it is not listed @ isthereanydeal.com
i guess but it works and i have never been scammed there i just bought black ops 4 for 40 bucks and got it without problem
Crazy Tiger 2021 年 8 月 28 日 上午 4:52 
引用自 44
引用自 Callahan420

That site is not a reputable site and why it is not listed @ isthereanydeal.com
i guess but it works and i have never been scammed there i just bought black ops 4 for 40 bucks and got it without problem
Expensive. On Gamesplanet, which is listed on isthereanydeal, it usually goes for 25-30
FiatLux 2021 年 8 月 28 日 上午 5:06 
Go to bundle seller sites , Humble Bundle , Fanatical , IndieGala , and so on and buy their bundles !!!
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