Please guys & gals be careful when trading someone with a Starbound key from Humble Bundle... I traded one of my games last month for a Humble Bundle Starbound key, logged in just to get a notice from Steam that the game is gone from my library. Such a sad day indeed...

;__;

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Just be careful trading for humble games in general.

1 decade ago
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Exactly, what he got into had nothing to do with Starbound.

1 decade ago
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Yep. It's unfortunate, but the scam is increasingly well known.

1 decade ago
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Some peeps use fraudulent credit cards

1 decade ago
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i always trade with the same guy to get bundle games. I trust him and there are never any problems.
This is what happens if you try to buy the cheapest of the cheapest.

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THIS!

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THAT!

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THAT! THIS!

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THIS! THAT! THIS!

btw, can i get the name of the guy you trust, need some prior hb :)

1 decade ago
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There are some in ST. Just check it out.

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THIS! THAT! THIS! THAT!

Nothing to say

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THIS!THIS!THIS!THIS!THIS!THIS!

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Likewise!

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Starbound in Humble Bundle? ô.o

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humble store :)

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Funny, I was just reading this on Reddit a few minutes ago. Several people in the thread are saying they're having similar issues so maybe there's just a problem with some of the keys or something.

The more likely scenario is that you got scammed. The guy you got Starbound from probably either

A. Bought it with a stolen credit card, or
B. Issued a chargeback

at which point Humble would have contacted Valve and told them to remove that copy of Starbound since it wasn't properly paid for.

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man, where have you been last year?

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I dont mind you listening jazz you know! /sarcasmstillon

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The skin he is using is called pixelvision, you can get it here
There are more skins, just search the forums!

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I also have to give a thanks. I was exactly like Lechery.

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For a minute I thought this was for a discount on Starbound but it wasn't which left me soooooo depressed, it made me get fish eyes just reading the OP and my brain kept repeating ignore ignore useless information. welp it's bed time so nite nite.

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Seems like it's happening to A LOT of people. :{

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thats why you dont do keys

1 decade ago
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Good to see someone who knows what they're talking about!

prolly need to put /sarcasm or you might think it's a real compliment...
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Actually gift copies disappear just the same. Gifts are only safer because you can't get scammed while trading, but the game can get revoked later.

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Theoretically, if you bug Steam support enough, they will return whatever items you traded for the gift.

YMMV of course
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I heard they do that only once per account, and if you get scammed like that again, they won't help you.

Which always makes me think of this

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I just had two of my games revoked. Pretty sure I got them from the same trader although I've forgotten which one it was..

1 decade ago
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Ever since the humble site introduced credit cards as a payment option, a lot more of this was bound to happen. That's why I don't trade humble stuff any more, if I want it I buy it. Even though most the time I can get the stuff cheaper from other sites.

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Ever since the humble site introduced credit cards as a payment option...
You can use CC via PayPal and PayPal option was there from very beginning.

1 decade ago
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PayPal checks credit cards a lot of the time though, so it's harder work for the scamer and more chance to them to just forget about it. I also did say that it would increase, which it has by a large amount.

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PayPal checks credit cards a lot of the time though, so it's harder work for the scamer...
Scammer just need to add credit card data once! It's even easier than direct purchase from CC, where you have to enter CC data every time you buy something.

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I think it's ever since they introduced the Humble Bundle store. Shits been getting out of hand.

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I have a feeling the humble site is going to shut down because of this crap.

Does anyone know how exactly are they the only site that has this credit card fraud problem?

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Yeah that's what makes me so irritated, they are the only website with keys that lots of scams are going on. Gamersgate and GreenManGaming don't seem to have those types of problems, at least I don't see any.

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Well atleast when you buy it again you will still have all your progress because of the cloud save :D

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The game gets wiped on final release anyways! :}

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That'll take a good few months (as in 5/6) I fear

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Did anyone have problems with tradeing other games or only from HB ? I recently got 2 AAA wich were both keys and now Im scared that they will be gone ;(

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Don't trade anything that comes from humblebundle.com, they just don't care about scammers.

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they do, else they would not take the time to contact Steam to have the games removed.

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Yup. I just got 2 games removed today & the person I traded with is just ignoring me. I did the best I could I reported him to SteamRep. sadpanda. :(

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:{

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Indeed :((

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:({(

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It's unfortunate that the scammer will never be marked on SR due to their policy of not investigating key/gift link scams.

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Well that was a waste of time then. I may as well not have bothered if that's the case. :(

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You'd think people would have learned not to trade for (Humblebundle) keys by now

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people need to stop trying to get things cheaper than they actually are

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Credit card fraud is popular now with HB trades. Also , I never seen steam app look like this before . O.o
Edit : never mind . Knew the skin.

1 decade ago
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Here.
I personally use this one.

1 decade ago
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Woah, that's a very nice skin! I might just have to hop on that... Hehehe. :3

Edit: Oh mah gerrrrrd... I LOVE THIS SKIN NOW!!! Thank you for sharing!

1 decade ago
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Anytime ;) Glad you like it.

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same for my friend

1 decade ago
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Same for me :(. Traded Morrowind GOTY for it so wasn't even really because I was trying to get it cheaper. The two games were going for the same price around that time.

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So what do you keep in that "American" folder on your desktop?

1 decade ago
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Do you really want to know? ;}

1 decade ago
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I imagine it is pictures of eagles and George Bush...as well as other cool 'Merica stuff

1 decade ago
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Sorry to disappoint but... Secret Revealed

1 decade ago
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I have a folder like that but I would need like 6 screenshots to show my collection

1 decade ago
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Hahaha! Dang 6 screenshots that'd be like 300+ GB. O__O"

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I was underestimating by saying 6 screenshots...I have a total of 6tb worth of movies, games, tv shows, ebooks, music and pretty much everything else that you can imagine...I am a bit of a hoarder when it comes to digital media.

1 decade ago
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#PSHHT
-Yes, we finally tracked him down. FBI SWAT INTERNET POLICE 4CHAN VAN EN ROUTE

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not the 4CHAN VAN!!!!

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Never happened to me, but good thing they started revoking keys at least...

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good thing? this guy got screwed by them pulling his key...Starbound is not an easy thing to let go of..

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What's the alternative? Having a charity store fraud unpunished?

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I think that they should definitely punish the people who are defrauding the charity. My comment was in response to how insensitive your statement was to the guy who just lost an awesome game due to some other shady individual.

1 decade ago
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Seems they can't punish them...

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It's good that they do it to those who bought copies illegally OFC.

OP had a bad luck trading with a scammer.

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What is this Steam skin? For a second, I thought it's Desura :D

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It's from PixelVision

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Closed 1 decade ago by Zystus.