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One common route is game bundles. They’ll ask for 20000 keys “just to start” and pay you 10% of total bundle revenue. Surprise surprise, the bundle sells 150 u
by fiblye 6y ago
One common route is game bundles. They’ll ask for 20000 keys “just to start” and pay you 10% of total bundle revenue.
Surprise surprise, the bundle sells 150 units, you make $5, and suddenly you have 50 copies of your game being activated everyday for the next year.
Just a note to indie devs out there: unless it’s a colossal site like Humble Bundle, all game bundles are scams. Ask them if they can return unused keys to you after the bundle finishes and they’ll suddenly stop replying. Legitimate sites have no problem doing this if sales really ended after the bundle did.
- driverdan 6y agoThere's nothing wrong with this. Someone who legitimately buys keys from a bundle should be able to resell them.
- joshstrange 6y agoI'm pretty sure the comment you are replying to is talking about the group/company/person that runs the bundle. They ask for 20,000 keys, sell 150 legitimately, and then sell the rest of the 20,000 on the gray/black market. Reselling a key you bought legitimately isn't the issue here AFAICT.
- cshokie 6y agoI think the point is that the people -running- the bundle are reselling all of the keys that didn’t sell as part of a bundle. Not the end customer who purchased a bundle.