GAME DEVS CAN REMOVE GAMES FROM YOUR STEAM LIBRARY, EVEN WITHOUT STEAM'S CONSENT

>no official steam keys were available to purchase separately
so they're deactivating keys people bought on sites presumably like g2a which weren't supposed to have keys to begin with because there were no keys issued in any official capacity
this isn't new, they did this with people who got dirt3 free using an exploit in steam's system back in the day, i know because i was one of the people who did it, the game just disappeared out of my library. that was back in like 2011 or something.

He isn't shitposting from his Vita
You're missing out my dude.

daily reminder that your average pirate has more ownership then you average steamcuck

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>"why do people pirate games?"

Already a thread you faggot

Fuck your thread bitch

Square Enix and a few other publishers did this a year or two ago.

>shita
Go back to your autistic general, faggot

mad

mobile

>steal property
>company takes back the stolen property
>WOWW WHAT THE FUCK I STOLE IT FAIR AND SQUARE HOW IS THIS OKAY

Get fucked.

>He's not a Sonybro

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>14 February 2020
I played Metro Exodus on console and holy shit was I disappointed. It had potential to be much more, yet it was the shortest and most boring game I have played in years. It was really easy to get the good ending and it didn't feel as hard as Last Light, and I mean it in a bad way. I payed full price for this shit and it demanded me to pay 80 bucks. Where's my refund?

>be really fucking autistic, aka the devs
>pull game out of steam
>put it on epic chinese store
>that same store sells your info to China
>people hate that chink store
>people start pirating the game
>devs: surprisedpikachu.jpg

But seriously guys, don't buy this shitty game. You will be disappointed. Even when it comes to Steam, just... don't...

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>being a helpless buycuck who is at the mercy of his corporate overlords
DO WHAT YOU WANT CUZ A PIRATE IS FREE

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>buy property from publisher
>publisher: I changed my mind
>money stolen

based piratefag

This has always been the case you retard
If you buy a key from some shady third party site and the publishers get wind of it they're able to remove it from your account
Hell my copy of metro last light came from g2a and while it hasn't been removed yet, they probably could

Ahem.

Thanks TPB and fuck chinks.

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>deactivating stolen or spoofed keys is a bad thing
Pirates are trash

>DO WHAT YOU WANT CUZ A PIRATE IS FREE
YOU ARE A PIRATE

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Pirates don't buy keys on G2A or stuff like that, you cuck.

We pirate it, enjoy it, buy it if we liked it, and that's it.
Imagine having to ask permission to play a game.

How are vidya keys stolen

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>Steam is great because you can use reseller keys, guys!
>mewnwhile resale key copies can be removed from your library
Spicy

Why does Steam allow this to be even possible, again?

>Keys

Yeah, no shit. Even Steam themselves removed lots of games because dumb fucks buy keys from dodgy websites.

How do you even get a spoofed key?
Is there vuln on steam's keys system?

Pirates do use stolen or spoofed keys when a game or program isn’t cracked.
Even if it is people who paid for keys from G2A they got what they deserve

Nothing to see here. Just op being retarded.

Maybe don't steal the game next time.

You people are genuinely mentally retarded. The game was never released on the platform. Of-fucking-course they're going to revoke them.

Tinfoil hat-wearing motherfuckers have no concept of business practices. Please don't breed.

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whats the story behind this? what "unlicensed" keys?

OH NO NO NO

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You shouldn't be using Steam to begin with, dumbass. Don't you remember that valve actively scans your internet history and stores that data indefinitely in their databases. All these software clients are chinkshit, no matter what.

>what "unlicensed" keys?
They sold Steam keys to third party resellers, but now they want to transform those keys into Epic keys, to force people to use Epic instead of Steam.

And people are grumpy.

Only if you buy them from Brazilian/Rusian hackers.
Thats what you get for buying shit of shady reseller sites.

>he says as he unironically browses 4channel
i swear to god all you people are tech illiterate zoomers

>Pirates do use stolen or spoofed keys when a game or program isn’t cracked.
if they bought a key they're buyfags. pirates get their games for 100% FREE OF CHARGE

>not posting from your Wii
LMAO

day1buyfags are fucking pathetic.

Resold keys from cdkeys and stuff

doesn't really affect me, I don't buy "discount" keys from dodgy sites

You can always download the free cracked version of Metro Exodus from the the piratebay..

based. buying from 3rd party sites is far worse than piracy

Resold from where? How did those sites get the keys?

So what? All they'll see is all the porn and anime I have in my internet history. Also I don't use Steam, I play on console, dumbass.

Pirates win once again.

>b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but you own your games on steam!!!
>s-s-s-s-s-s-stop wearing thin foil!
its a good day to be a pirate
no one can fucking delete my games

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>by key from shady 3rd party site
>try to redeem key on Steam
>turns out shady site is selling unauthorized keys
>THIS IS ENTIRELY STEAMS FAULT AND THERE IS NO WAY I COULD HAVE AVOIDED THIS AT ALL
Retards.

>unauthorized
Yeah sure thing you greedy jew
How on earth did people get all the steamkeys

>Deep Silver claim they're "unlicensed" keys
>gave the sellers of the "unlicensed" keys Epic Store keys as a replacement for the customers
I don't know, something's not adding up here.

lol

noone can delete the worms and miners that have burrowed on your hard drive either

What are you, retarded? Gookmoot can't sell my credit card info, I'm behind seven proxies

>the year 2020 is no longer some abstract far off futuristic year.

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And you have a receipt of purchase on steam you can use to sue them with. Having a feature doesn't mean they can abuse it

Nothing new Newfag

>BUYING METRO EXODUS
This is the worse crime of all.

>sue them
idiot, he bought a key that the kike seller was not supposed to sell
their own fault for being retards and a also scheming jew breaking rules they agreed to
do us all a favor and stop posting online

>without steam's consent
Seems to me they're doing it with steam's consent, since this is four day old news and nobody's getting their games back.
What makes you think they didn't bring it to steam's attention first and they went "yeah, ok, we'll kill them, just tell people what happened in the forum or something"? The sharp stinging pain in your ass?

Why do Steam drones seethe so easily?

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>he's not constantly in a perpetual state of butthurt
god I hope not

>retards actually falling for websites like g2a

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Sony can permanently banned your console/account. :^)

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Exactly. Valve constantly allows shitty anti-consumer practices and engages in them themselves. They were slower than fukken EA on including refunds, and that only came about from a legal squeeze. If they and Deep Silver are let go, then they'll keep doing it and Valve will keep enabling it.

PirateCHADs assemble!

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>buy stolen keys from a shady site
>BUT I PAID FOR IT BAAAAAAAH
Are people really this retarded?

>And you have a receipt of purchase on steam you can use to sue them with. Having a feature doesn't mean they can abuse it
They are deactivating stolen keys you shit for brains, did you even read the OP?
It clearly says those keys were bough through steam, ether generated, from stolen retail boxes or other illegal sources.

Yea Forums is painfully stupid

As someone whos used steamworks for my shitty indie game, I can disable keys after they've been used, but I can't remove the game from someone who bought it on steam as far as I know

>steam
>chinkstore
>any digital store like that
Hue you guys deserves the worst

>permanently
did you read it? It's suspended until he changes ID to something that doesn't violate TOS

>I WILL RAPE YOOOOOU
-Steam drones

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Good, good. Escalate it even farther.

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Damn steam drones are fucking retarded.
Like the reseller will confess they sell stolen keys.
They probably took the keys from retail for fraction of a price on some under the table deal with a store, and the distributor offered to cover the replacement cost on some deal with the publisher but they sure as fuck wont give outs team keys anymore.
Its same as always with those resellers, russian underage fucks buy shady keys, company bans them all when they notice, retards bitch.
He should be happy someone is willing to pay for the difference, dumb fuck, if it was up to me no replacement keys for those entitled fucks.

Seems logical, you can't own games on steam you can only rent them.

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>if it was up to me
theres a reason why autistic 4channelers are never in charge of pr user

dumb frogposter

Where the fuck I'm wrong, retard?
It's literally stated in TOS of steam that you can't own games on steam you can only rent them and publishers/devs/gaben can do whatever the fuck they want with them.

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ITS TIME TO KILL SOME NIGGERS, AND TRANNIES.

good. they can see how much i use their client to find games im gonna pirate.

oh hey remember when EA pulled a number of titles when origin launched? same shit all over, do not buy anything from these dickbags

a violent robbery of an estore. it can get bloody, man.

Those are unauthorized 3rd party keys. Of course they can deactivate them dummy. I've done so myself when I see my games being sold on g2a and other shady sites

Nice larp, the last time a publisher tried to deactivate unauthorized 3rd party keys was with far cry 4 and what followed was such a massive shitstorm nobody has done it since

>I've done so myself when I see my games being sold on g2a and other shady sites
>Cutting sales of your game by yourself
3000 IQ move.

>go to factory that prints keys
>steal them

Source: You can trust me I'm a doctor.

>imagine living in the world where you legit think that games you bought on steam are yours.

lamoing@you Next time you'll try to convince yourself your fiatcuck paper worth a crap.

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>dont own nothing
thats a double negative, so i own something?

>devs can revoke game keys
This isn't exactly news you retard.

I told you 15 years ago that digital distribution is cancer, and things would only get worse, but what do I know? I'm just a conspiritard

Typically from Russians using stolen credit card info

Yeah sure

>buy stolen goods irl
>police comes to your house and takes them away
>money stolen, woooooooow

So permanent?

B-but my sink cost fallacy... I will defend Steam with my life! Awe Gaben!

Pretty much sums it up.

If you invested in buying a decent enough video card to actually run the game to its intended potential in the first place, not only would you of gotten the game for free, you wouldn't of had this problem at all.

Karma for being cheap asses.

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>one dev being scum which is out of control of Steam
>STEAM IS BAD REEEEEEEEEEEE
Epic shill begone

you don't even own physical copies. You own a disc, but not it's content.
Main difference is that, as long as online activation of any sort isn't required, publishers have no power to prevent you from using it, even if they decide to.
But then again, no distribution platform can prevent you from pirating it, so it's true regardless of platform

Reminder to pirate all of Deep Shit's games.

read it, it's not that long, really

Even watch_ dogs 2 for free was better than this shit, wow.

If the great leader Epic demandes it, Deep Silver will follow and so shall we.

Name 1 AAA game released in the past 5 years that will run with only the disk, no downloads required from a server that will eventually be taken offline when that console generation dies.

Go on physical fag, tell me about your superior format. Its totally not digital with a piece of plastic crap validation key nooooo.

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Bought by stolen money.

How do you steal money

>he payed money for Metro Exodus after being betrayed

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