Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies

Re:Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say ... by fiblye on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:23PM (#20397302)

A lot of those game bundles intentionally underpromote the bundles so that they get maybe 100 sales, then they resell the keys for higher margins with no cash going to the dev.

If a bundle company asks for 10000 keys and their bundles are clearly only selling 200 units each, their bundles are just a front for the real money. Legit operations return all unused keys. Dirty operations (the vast majority of bundles) will block your emails the minute you mention returning keys.

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Re:Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say ... by lonelappde on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:06AM (#20401556)

Why do devs do business with a huge number of fly by night minor bundlers with no reputation?

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Re:Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say ... by fiblye on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @09:38AM (#20401804)

Because a lot of them have reputations for having released successful bundles in the past. That's precisely why you shouldn't trust them. :)

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