Hazard151 -> RE: Help for new player? (11/29/2021 7:11:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SirHoraceHarkness Thanks for that link. Odd that if its such a grey market rife with fraud that steam would be ok with it since they are losing sales too and also ponying up bandwidth for the downloads. [&:] Steam doesn't care because bandwith is cheap and they already got the money from the purchase. Besides, the only thing they check is 'is this a valid Steam game key?', and so long as the answer is yes, they can't really do anything. It's not as if they know which purchases are done with, say, a stolen card when the purchase happens, and yanking codes is something they leave to the publisher or developer, they are just the intermediary store making the sale. Overall, Steam's business model finds the costs associated with having to occasionally yank some codes and refund money inconsequential compared to the effort that would be needed to deal with illegal reselling practices.
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