Regarding free stream game codes

[Iggy Wolf]

So my cousin is a Mixer streamer and has a following and gets paid for streaming his games. He mostly streams Fortnite, Apex, and other battle royale games but I don't know if he does it on both his Xbox and PC or just one of them. Point is, he's gotten some free game codes from some publishers (e.g. Metro Exodus, Far Cry New Dawn etc.)

However, he has no interest in playing them and I asked him if he could gift them to me. Thing is though, I don't know for which system his codes are for. Also, I'm interested in his Metro Exodus code but I don't know if he got the code before the game went to Epic's game store so how can I know whether it's an Epic, Steam, or hell, Xbox One game code? They sent it to him as an e-mail and it has the typical XXXXX-XXXXX though not sure whether Xbox's or Steam's format.

[999999999]

Try it and find out. There is no harm in doing so.

But you really should ask him to find out.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Then why not try? If it doesn't work in Steam try the others, if won't make the code not usable entering it into the wrong platform.

Not only that the email should specify what it's for.

[Iggy Wolf]

Yeah. I forgot to ask him to give me the code (will do that again when I get the chance) but when he showed me the email, it was odd that almost nothing in the email indicated which platform it's for.

[cinedine]

Steam keys are three groups of five (15).
Only legacy codes differ, but for new games that's it.

XBox LIVE is 25 characters, IIRC five groups of five.

uPlay is either 16 in four groups of four
or 19 one group of three followed by four groups of four

PSN is 12, three groups of four

Origin codes are 17 long

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That should help to indentify them. Generally speaking big games are usually given as console versions for multiplatform content creators ... and sometimes even PC focused ones.

[Iggy Wolf]

Thank you.