What are your thoughts on steam key sites? have you even bought a key from sites like g2a? are they a scam or are they cool, also do you have a story to share about steam keys.

i was planning on getting a mystery pack from g2a or whatever its called but im not sure if its a scam or not.

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[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Stolen from whom?

[–] Kanzar@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Stolen credit cards, buy legit keys, owner of card does chargeback, actual retailer is now out money and a key and can get penalised for the chargeback.

Might as well pirate it instead because the devs definitely don't get the money.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It feels like an easily solvable problem. Every key is unique. It can be centrally tracked from it's origin to the buyer. Steam should allow the easy revocation of keys if reported as bought with fraudulent means.

[–] spaceout@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does. That's why sometimes you'll buy a game on g2a, it'll work for a while, and suddenly be inactivated. (Because it was bought with fraudulent means)

[–] ours@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago

And even if the keys don't become invalid and were initially purchased with a non-stolen credit card, it may be part of a money laundering operation and therefore facilitating some shady crap.

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