| ▲ | Semaphor 5 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Resellers sell something they bought. Or that's the idea. The sites are marketplaces, sometimes having people sell keys from different countries, sometimes stolen credit card keys. There are several game devs saying they'd prefer people pirating over using those sites. Real stores sell steam keys because they are selling directly from the developers. Steam is actually nice (or preempting monopoly talk, depending on your view) in that it allows that (I think there are limits, but IIRC rather generous) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Real stores sell steam keys because they are selling directly from the developers And how did these "real stores" get those Steam keys unless they bought them, maybe even directly from the developers? Or are you saying game developers hand out these keys for free to the store, then the store sends the developer money for each key they sell? I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense. What is an example of one such site selling Steam keys who you wouldn't consider a reseller? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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