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Direct2Play - legit?

Ebernanut said:
The courts are the ones that decide if a contract is legal if it's disputed, if a contract is agreed to by both parties and hasn't been disputed in court it's considered valid.

I fail to see how regional pricing is fraud when nothing is misrepresented, those that live somewhere that games cost more than in the US probably have a legitimate complaint but it still doesn't amount to fraud.

I'm also not aware of grey market sites selling bundle keys, I'm sure it happens but the ones I've seen are usually just selling a couple of the latest AAA titles.

Although I was the one that really got the debate going of legal vs illegal vs borderline illegal I'll admit that it's mostly a pointless debate over semantics. I think that these sites are shady and I think it's wrong to buy from them but it's also not some major crime or anything. Like I said in a previous post I think the reason it bothers me is that selling games for cheap in poorer countries is about the only positive way that publishers have tried to prevent piracy, I find regional pricing much more preferable than crippling DRM. If too many people try to take advantage of the situation then publishers are likely to drop this tactic and focus more on negative anti-piracy tactics, it could also make them realize that they could make more money on some games by dropping the price and selling to more people but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
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So, it is a fraud if I buy a key from such a site (which I have not done so far but maybe I will) exploiting the global economy, but it is not a fraud for a seller to sell me something at a higher price based on my location. Bunch a lawyers here.

Tell you what: I don't care what the EULA says, I don't care what the company wants. I do care whether it's legal but laws often change and not for my benefit, so I don't care that much.

Mozex said:
While the business is non-US they are selling directly to US citizens. Being located outside the US does not give them unlimited freedom in dealing with US citizens.
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You are implying that US citizens are somewhat more special than the rest us because...?
 
dgz said:
You are implying that US citizens are somewhat more special than the rest us because...?
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I'm stating the fact that US laws are different from laws in other countries. No specialness was implied or stated.
 
i bought a couple of gw1 keys for really cheap, the keys steam activated too. sorta.


its a grey market and steam may void the keys though according to the terms.
 
Azureth said:
Incorrect. You're thinking of Direct2Drive which did get bought up by GF awhile back. Which pissed me off because all the games I bought from them GF doesn't have :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
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SIRTIM3 said:
All the games I bought maybe 10 plus from direct2drive transferred over perfectly to gamefly in my account.
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i never heard of this and i got like 20 something games on D2D. :mad:
 
Mozex said:
I'm stating the fact that US laws are different from laws in other countries. No specialness was implied or stated.
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Can you elaborate a bit? I really don't get why would a merchant care.
 
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