I bought my own game from a reseller – Here's what happened. [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLJkg_B3gyY

by mbirth • 2 years ago

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robocat• 2 years ago

Summary: game developer gives out a handful of keys to game review sites. Many game review sites are selling the keys to game "resellers".

I guess steam could fix this by having accounts tagged as reviewers and allow generation of keys that are permanently locked for use by only reviewer accounts?

strangecasts• 2 years ago

Steam does have Curator Connect, which kind of does that - https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/curators - granted, it comes with a couple of drawbacks, the main one being that the reviewers need to have a Curator group set up

PrivateButts• 2 years ago

Allegedly in the early days press would get special steam accounts that let them download everything from the store free of charge.

niteshade• 2 years ago

Definitely true back in 2008

IronWolve• 2 years ago

So multiple game reviewers are the same person/group asking for multiple keys then selling them.

I bought my own game from a reseller – Here's what happened. [video]

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