What is a ROW key? Is Fanatical safe?

[Yukiko ~Snow Child~]

I bought a game from Fanatical and they gave me an ROW key? What is it? Isthereanydeal recommended Fanatical so I think the site is safe. Am I wrong?

[ZAToM]

afaik row stands for rest of the world and can be activated in any country but not 100% sure

and i used to buy from fanatical too, its long time ago thou

[KalGimpa]

not sure about the row, but fanatical is a safe site to buy keys

[Crazy Tiger]

ROW stands for Rest of World. Often it means there is also a regional version for CIS/Russia. If you're logged in, Fanatical usually lists on the store page for the game whether the game will activate in your country.

Yes, Fanatical is a safe site to use.

[blunus]

ROW = Rest Of World
A region-free version where a store would have multiple country versions (e.g. Fallout New Vegas has two versions: one of them is PCR.)

Fanatcial is safe to use like what isthereanydeal does: only lists authorized sites.

[Yukiko ~Snow Child~]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

ROW stands for Rest of World. Often it means there is also a regional version for CIS/Russia. If you're logged in, Fanatical usually lists on the store page for the game whether the game will activate in your country.

Yes, Fanatical is a safe site to use.

Are all the sites on isthereanydeal safe sites?

[Jasung]

Re: ROW -- Rest of the World. It differentiates certain region-specific keys versus those that can be activated anywhere else. Often, third-party sites will auto-detect your region for you and will give you the appropriate game keys for your region whenever you make a purchase.

Re: Fanatical -- Echoing what others have said, Fanatical is a cool site and gives legit keys that were directly obtained from game developers / publishers. They are NOT a gray market site; thus, you need not worry about keys suddenly deactivating and having games be removed from your Steam account. I buy them and never had any issues. Just... watch out for their "Mystery Bundles" which is like a loot box gimmick.

Hope that helps! Cheers and have fun gaming!

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Yukiko ~Snow Child~:

Are all the sites on isthereanydeal safe sites?

Yup.