Razer Shutting Its Digital Game Store This Month, Less than a Year after It Opened

That didn’t last long: Razer has announced its game store would “cease operations on February 28, 2019 at 0100hrs Pacific Time as part of the company’s realignment plans.” The store originally opened in April 2018, less than a year ago. Games will still be offered through the company’s virtual credits and loyalty rewards system, Razer Gold and Silver.

"It has been a privilege for us to recommend and deliver great digital game deals to you," it said. "We have been extremely fortunate to have you as part of our awesome community. Thank you for the support and making all this possible." Razer will still fulfill any pre-orders made through the store, and any games you've already bought will work as long as you retrieve the keys—either Steam or Uplay—before February 28.

I didn't even know they had one...

This reminds me of when Amazon announced they were shutting down their discussion forums.

I was like...what forums??

Twisted Kidney said:

I didn't even know they had one...

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same.

nice to see they aren't screwing their customers before they go tits up though.

I'm actually sad to see this go. I'm not the biggest Razer fan thanks to some experience with crappy, Windows only drivers (though I admit some of their hardware is higher quality) but I could really respect them opening a "game store/platform" that was actually key-selling - aka actual competition - as opposed to the toxic garbage practices popular in the last year of opening one's own incompatible, proprietary launcher. Epic, Discord, the Twitch client etc... all started making their own incompatible, worse experience (Windows only at that) that I have no desire to support and in fact harms the market. Razer's willingness to sell keys for existing platforms - mostly Steam - was to be lauded.

Unfortunately, I can understand to some degree why they could be shutting down. Quite simply, many didn't have the time to associate Razer with great game deals as of yet and there are other competitors in the market - GMG, Fanatical, Humble and pretty much anyone listed on the "isthereanydeal" site etc - that were more entrenched. I would have thought Razer had the reserves to stick it out for the long haul but thjat doesn't seem to be the case. In any event, I can at least give them credit for selling game keys rather than make their own launcher.

I'm not sad. Who needs another site with high prices and a "loyalty" system that gives minor discounts if you buy their overpriced hardware?
Not me.

Now if they had made their own launcher - I'd be bitching like crazy at the shutdown. Love me another launcher.

News to me that it even existed.

Oh right, that existed.

Like many others here, never new they had a store front. So I guess that is why it is closing down.