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Once you activate a game key ON STEAM, whether you buy it from the store itself or outside, it STAYS here permanently.
If a game gets delisted that means delisted FROM FURTHER SALE. It is extremely rare for a game to be totally removed and uslaly comes down to some sort of crime or serious contract breach.
In which case you get compensated.
So no it doesn't go away. You own the licence to use permanently, so can delete it and redownload it as much as you wish.
https://isthereanydeal.com/
All stores listed here are authorized Steam reseller stores that get their Steam keys directly from the developer/publisher and you can be sure your money goes to the game makers.
Avoid overly cheap sites that are not listed here, like the famous 3 letter one or the one with the penguin.
That does not mean you will be scammed on those sites, most times the provided keys will work just fine but in the case of a problem its usually hard to get any help and since those stores get their keys out of unknown sources you can not be sure the developers got paid for them or they wont be deactivated sometime in the future if they were purchased with illegite payment methods.
Just stick with the legit stores.
You forgot to mention some games get delisted because of licensing issues. For example, they once removed ALAN WAKE because of licensed music in it. They removed SPECS OPS THE LINE because the licensed stuff in it, and the same with the Samurai Jack game too recently.
I hope they bring SPECS OPS THE LINE back because when i tried to buy a actual physical copy of it for xbox 360, they were selling it at the store used for 50.00 US dollars. Maybe because now it is hard to find. They jacked up the price on it on purpose..ugh.
Yeah those key prices for delisted games are ridiculous. A key for the survival horror "SAW" game is like 1400 bucks just because it was delisted 12 years ago or so.
I bought a key for that game for like a buck or so a year before that.
To be fair though it's not much different to collecting any rare physical good either.
Games for a start. I've always done the boring thing of buying a new platform and immediately reaserching EVERY release and making note of them. I'd end up buying everything I wanted come the end of the platforms life cycle. And now you see tons of games that I'd previously bought for pennies at stupid prices.
But worse still was record collecting. Not so much now for me, but when I DJed back in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was a massive pain. Obviously back then, no internet. So you had magazines, word of mouth, and record fairs and shops to deal with and that was it. If a totally new rare thing popped up, you had to be lucky and be there to snag it.
And it was terrrible because I needed certain records for my DJing. Some of which were long out of print and would command silly prices. Worst of all many of these were songs I disliked but still had to have. Thankfully when CDs really took off it did cause a lot fo things to be rereleased which helped.
But still pain in the arse nonetheless. Though I have been lucky in some cases and found things like Beatles test pressings and mispressings of the Smiths and the Sex Pistols.
Well, Steam is making baby steps towards making "keys" second-class citizens -- as an example, the default is to not count your review if you bought a key. And I'm sure we'll be seeing more stuff like this over time.
Yea, don't even look up the price for the DEADPOOL Game..it is ridicolous.
As for the review issue you pointed out it was because of abuse some companies were doing to give out thousands of free codes just to abuse their game rating on steam with bot accounts.