I heard that he shall return upon the third coming of the scientist Gordon
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I happened to be reading through the Steam Docs the other day and saw that if a Developer decides to remove their game on Steam they need to request any outstanding Keys theyâve sent over to 3rd-party vendors so they can use a Steam function to ban them. Itâs because if your title is not being sold on Steam (the Devâs decision in the described article) then it should not be for sale elsewhere. Steam wants to have an equal opportunity for userâs to buy the title through their Storefront.
The Zonitron situation is completely different since Valve cut them off, but it would be unfair for Zonitron to ban keys that people may have actually bought through legitimate storefronts but havenât activated them yet. Zonitron almost certainly has no way to do that now if they wanted since they lost Partner API access.
So those outstanding Keys will still activate. I wouldnât be surprised if Indiegala hit them up shortly after they got terminated from Steam and offered to buy whatever Keys they had left for something like $5. Very few people ever bought those crappy Zonitron titles and picked them up through bundles or giveaways. Bundle sellers will by them in bulk for really low prices. Zonitronâs entire scheme relied on that. They were working Valve over by abusing Key generation just to have people activate them and get Cards circulating through the Community Market and leaching pennies off a Valve. Now that Cards from those games cannot be listed on the Community Market, existing keys are literally worthless. Steam makes sure of it by delisting the titles entirely from the Store catalog - if youâre someone who likes collecting games no longer sold through the Steam Storefront these Zonitron titles wonât show up for anyone viewing your profile so donât bother. The Keys are worth less than the 1/10 cent retail store coupons are valued at in the fine print. The only thing theyâre good for is farming a few extra cards on another account to complete a set.
Steam Directâs $100 initial fee is going to make it a lot harder to pull off the old Digital Homicide now. Valve will probably ban them before they even get close to a $100 balance in their Partner account since it has to come through Storefront sales. Overwhelmingly Negative titles listed at $9.99 with MS Paint screenshots donât have a good conversion rate. This kind of racket will probably show up again eventually.
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that seems reasonable, but doesnât explain despite why games removed from store, keys for those games are still able to be activated years later (despite not being sold),
unless itâs this
meaning it would apply to those legit removed games too, itâs just about âhowâ it was gone about âdeactivatingâ/banning the keys.
not saying all deliberately just claim to valve âyea we deactivated x keysâ and continue to hand them out still, but that a portion prior to removal must at least still be covered by the âsold yet not activatedâ
(and even then it doesnât explain it all the time, like chronicles of riddick and⌠feck canât remember the other one)
it does put a sad light on it tho, since fake devs are probably more likely to âpre-generateâ as many keys as possible, so one could assume they had like millions in stock still⌠sigh⌠guess we will never escape the remnants of these games, despite being removed then
good news for those just wanting cards to level up using extra accounts then i guessâŚ
ofc, does mean the âkeys for level up serviceâ will barely feel a dent from this, as these cards will then just be even more profitable for them to sell as level up badgesâŚ
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Kraven Manor
https://www.indiegala.com/warhammer?src=menu
(the usual link doesnât work for this one)
You have to scroll down towards the bottom of the page
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Valve has to approve bulk key requests, Gnuffi. If you donât give a reason for wanting a bunch of keys generated they are likely to decline the request. 
Nice! Itâs a 2-pack, so I can send a copy to a friend. That was a bit unexpected. Maybe it mentioned that and I just didnât noticeâŚNow to see if hubby would be willing to play it with me. 
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Cavern Escape
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Pixel Puzzles: UndeadZ
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TAIKU MANSION
(sry, not my fault, title is actually full caps lol) 
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IndieGala is now Top Trumps TurboâŚ
Itâs 21.99CA but I read the reviewsâŚmostly negative.
Edit: I guess I should sayâŚThis game has NOTHING to do with the sad state of politics or the US President. Just wanted to make that clear.
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Bloop Reloaded
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Agent Awesome
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Prisoner
The giveaway is on the middle of the page above the payment info - canât miss it.
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Are ye sure about that? cuz I missed.
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It seems it ended 3-4 hours ago. Strangely they stay up for more time. When the Massive Giveaway button disappears from the side menu itâs confirmed over.
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