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I bought my own game from a reseller – Here's what happened. [video]
- robocat 3y agoSummary: 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 3y agoSteam does have Curator Connect, which kind of does that - https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/curators 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 3y agoAllegedly in the early days press would get special steam accounts that let them download everything from the store free of charge.
- niteshade 3y agoDefinitely true back in 2008
- IronWolve 3y agoSo multiple game reviewers are the same person/group asking for multiple keys then selling them.