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Pivo504

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Does anyone buy from gamivo, or any other sites outside of steam? Allot of games are more than half the price but in not sure if there safe legit or not?
 
If not from steam, i'll buy sometimes from Humble bundle, Epic store, Fanatical, Greenman gaming and very occasionally, CDKeys. Haven't had any problems so far with any.
 
What about gamivo? For sum reason CD keys is more expensive than steam lol
 
I use g2a and greenmangaming... just be careful with the grey key sites because there is a certain element of risk buying from them.... Some times the keys can be sold twice and the key you buy can be already activated... Other than that I have not had any issues with the ones that I listed
 
Enigma said:
I use g2a and greenmangaming... just be careful with the grey key sites because there is a certain element of risk buying from them.... Some times the keys can be sold twice and the key you buy can be already activated... Other than that I have not had any issues with the ones that I listed
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Does this include Kinguin? I've only ever purchased from CDKeys so I'm not sure about any other ones
 
Pivo504 said:
Thank you for the heads up! I see they mention only buy from G2A, Kinguin, CDKeys also so now I know!!
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Those are all grey market sites, I wouldn't use any of them myself.

Outside of the standard places I've used Fanatical, Greenman Gaming, IndieGala, and GamersGate. Those are all legit in that they're authorized key sellers that buy their keys direct from the publishers so you don't have worry about supporting thieves or having keys banned. I use isthereanydeal.com to find the best prices because they only list authorized sellers though occasionally a region locked key that won't activate in the US sneaks in(not from any of the ones I mentioned using).
 
I've used Kinguin beforer and have had no problems with them. Been awhile though.
 
I've never had any issue with CDkeys or Greenmangaming, I've bought many games from both over the past 7-10 years.
 
Eneba or whatever it is I used once to get Overload for $1 everything looked good. But I'm not sure..
 
Duffbuster243 said:
I've never had any issue with CDkeys or Greenmangaming, I've bought many games from both over the past 7-10 years.
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Unfortunately both of those were the same price as steam so there was no point in using them... Kinguin was the cheapest but only by a few dollars so it wasn't worth the risk
 
Pivo504 said:
Unfortunately both of those were the same price as steam so there was no point in using them... Kinguin was the cheapest but only by a few dollars so it wasn't worth the risk
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Definitely hit or miss recently. They have had much better deals in the past.
 
I’ve successfully bought from Kinguin, G2A, Gamivo, Eneba, and CDKeys. I have run into trouble on a couple of occasions (I think both times with G2A) where I got issued a key for the wrong region or the key was already activated (I was however able to get a refund or new key). Those are the exception though and I still feel it’s worth it for the savings over time.

I always check cheapdigitaldownload.com and isthereanydeal.com for best key prices, but understand hesitancy to buy when there are so many shady places to choose from.
 
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Artificiary said:
I’ve successfully bought from Kinguin, G2A, Gamivo, Eneba, and CDKeys. I have run into trouble on a couple of occasions (I think both times with G2A) where I got issued a key for the wrong region or the key was already activated (I was however able to get a refund or new key). Those are the exception though and I still feel it’s worth it for the savings over time.

I always check cheapdigitaldownload.com and isthereanydeal.com for best key prices, but understand hesitancy to buy when there are so many shady places to choose from.
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You might as well pirate if you're going to be that cheap, the developer is generally getting very little to nothing of the money you pay for keys on grey market sites.
 
Saw it discussed in an article, Looked fun, so bought Dying Light Platinum (For Steam) off CDKeys for about $6-7 and have had no problems at all with it.
 
To the ops question as to whether or not the grey market sites or their keys are legit I’d recommend checking out this article:

https://lockesjourney.wordpress.com...truth-about-g2a-kinguin-and-grey-market-keys/

Provides a detailed analysis of how these sites operate and where most of their keys come from. Regardless of your moral position on purchasing grey market keys, the vast vast majority are obtained and resold legally. If you think buying keys from these sites is hurting developers (I don’t), then buy elsewhere.
 
Artificiary said:
To the ops question as to whether or not the grey market sites or their keys are legit I’d recommend checking out this article:

https://lockesjourney.wordpress.com...truth-about-g2a-kinguin-and-grey-market-keys/

Provides a detailed analysis of how these sites operate and where most of their keys come from. Regardless of your moral position on purchasing grey market keys, the vast vast majority are obtained and resold legally. If you think buying keys from these sites is hurting developers (I don’t), then buy elsewhere.
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There's a lot more trustworthy sources besides a wordpress blog that say the opposite. I've posted several before and don't feel like digging any up but there's plenty of stolen keys(bought with stolen credit cards, produced with a keygen, or in a few cases straight up stolen from the dev/publisher/distributor) on those sites and at best your buying a key that was meant for a much poorer market which even if you ignore that part of it very little of the money you spend is going where it should and instead is enriching those helping you circumvent the normal market. All of this to save a few bucks over the key sites that give most of the money you spend to the people responsible for making the game.

They're also called grey market sites because they operate in a legal grey area(without even addressing stolen keys), totally and unquestionably legal keys are not what those places normally sell.
 
Artificiary said:
I’ve successfully bought from Kinguin, G2A, Gamivo, Eneba, and CDKeys. I have run into trouble on a couple of occasions (I think both times with G2A) where I got issued a key for the wrong region or the key was already activated (I was however able to get a refund or new key). Those are the exception though and I still feel it’s worth it for the savings over time.

I always check cheapdigitaldownload.com and isthereanydeal.com for best key prices, but understand hesitancy to buy when there are so many shady places to choose from.
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Kinguin and G2A are places I'd avoid personally. I know at least one developer was deactivating keys sold through there, often times months or years after purchased. Those people ended up being screwed out of their money because G2A/Kinguin only offer a short refund period. CD Keys and GMG are good to go though.
 
I've used CDKeys dozens of times sans any issues. They're even prompt with refunds if something doesn't work right. GMG and Kinguin seem to work fine, although I've only used those two once each.
 
Ebernanut said:
You might as well pirate if you're going to be that cheap, the developer is generally getting very little to nothing of the money you pay for keys on grey market sites.
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Not the same as pirating games you 99.99999% need a cracked executable, which in turn is where most infections come from, while many are clean, just as many are bad pending on your sources vs buying a CD key and the full game that is downloaded and patched anyways from the vendor.
 
MrGuvernment said:
Not the same as pirating games you 99.99999% need a cracked executable, which in turn is where most infections come from, while many are clean, just as many are bad pending on your sources vs buying a CD key and the full game that is downloaded and patched anyways from the vendor.
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I used to run cracked executables to get around CD checks(on bought games) back in the day and it was easy to avoid infections as long as you got the file or a crc to check it directly from a known cracking group, many of which appear to still be around based on references to them I still see occasionally.

I also wasn't recommending it as much as saying that there's very little difference in the amount of money received by publisher/dev in both situations even though you're only usually saving a few bucks over a legit key seller.

Edit: Ethically speaking you might as well save your money if you're going to give very little of it to those that actually deserve to profit off it. It would be more honest at the very least.
 
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