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expireddoublehelixx | Staff posted Jan 8, 2025 4:27 PM
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (PC Digital Game Download)
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Basically, they use various non-first-party means (or sometimes even illegal means, like using stolen credit cards) to obtain a bunch of activation codes ("CD Keys", to use the old-school term for product activation codes) of the sort that you'd normally get when you buy the game yourself, and then they resell those at a super-cheap price, still making some profit because their own costs were either minimal or zero.
So, for example, when you buy a game from Steam, (or from one of Valve's legit partners like Fanatical or GreenManGaming, who obtain parcels of activation codes by negotiating with Valve and/or the game's developer/publisher directly for them), you get a unique activation code that represents your license to that game. Activating that license using the activation code means yay, now that game's in your Steam account.
Grey-market key resellers, like CDKeys.com or G2A, are in the business of getting those codes in bulk without dealing with Valve or the games' developers/publishers, through a variety of methods: scraping, generating, buying from random people who sell "bulk batches" that can't be verified as legit or not-already-used, or in some cases (like with G2A), just using stolen credit cards to buy a bunch of codes from a legitimate site, as a kind of money-laundering.
G2A is the worst offender I've seen of them, having very frequently used stolen credit cards, but CDKeys operates on the same business model and some of the same methods, and so there's a risk that you (and your Steam account) will get caught in the collateral damage for their sketchy actions, if the keys are traced back to a stolen credit card. There's also the ethical question of "is buying from a thief any better than just stealing it yourself?", but that's more subjective.
CDKeys buys humble bundles to break them into individual keys. For example, DarkTide was in the humble choice for November, so they have it available for cheaper than any other store, and cheaper than most's all time low (check anydeal)
The big deals are usually when there's a bunch of leftover keys for a game in the bundle that nobody wants. Look at Persona 4 Golden (also from nov) and it's 6 bucks. All time low according to anydeal is $10 across the board.
CDKeys buys humble bundles to break them into individual keys. For example, DarkTide was in the humble choice for November, so they have it available for cheaper than any other store, and cheaper than most's all time low (check anydeal)
The big deals are usually when there's a bunch of leftover keys for a game in the bundle that nobody wants. Look at Persona 4 Golden (also from nov) and it's 6 bucks. All time low according to anydeal is $10 across the board.
Don't want to push my luck at use a credit card…
Edit: I just watched a video on all the mods for the game. I think I'll pick this up too.
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