Looks like they roll-backed the site to some point shortly before it completely crashed. I registered to it with a wrong e-mail (whoops), changed it and "bought" the game, getting a duplicate, and now it's showing the old e-mail (with the game not being there obviously). So my guess is they did a roll back and that's why some people still have the game on their GamesPlanet accounts while others don't.
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still have it got trading cards though for safety XD
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From your link: "...We did not take action in any way yet."
Key word there is "yet", my guess is they need to sort out which keys were taken for free before they revoke them.
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They changed the text. "yet" wasn't there before. I don't know if that "yet" was to calm down the ppl that are missing the key from profile and are accusing them of revoking (apparently a rollback could have happened at some point, as 2 guys said their e-mail was changed back after they changed them) or if they will actually take any action on this. Though, they added to the notice that it wasn't a planned promotion either, it wasn't there. Now to wait and see what happen..
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Yeah, unfortunately it seems they have to revoke keys, due to numbers of abusers. Mostly there were those who took "a few" keys, but also multiple who went lengths and took multiple hundreds of codes "likely" to resell.
This is so sad :(
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Following this forum and others where the news of the DR3 for free leaked i have not counted a hundred people who were able to activate the game unlike thousands of those who got duplicated keys or where unable to get the key from their account. I doubt that there was a maximum of one hundred leaked keys, however it looks like based on the latest news that they will revoke the keys. Oh well it was free so no loss.
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You're forgetting those who abused it as much as possible.
There are people who claim to got 50+ of keys by themselves.. (It was possible to order multiple with same account)
Also reports say that there has been non-duplicate keys for those who ordered, but didn't try to activate.
Big fiasko regardless of revoking or not.
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I read that they were giving a lot of duplicated keys anyway the correct number of giving keys only they know. Gamesplanet statments are pretty unclear at this point, my guess is that they still weigh what and how they will handled this situation as painless as possible for them. At first i was optimistic thinking they will let us keep the game, however if they do that they will have thousands of complaints and hate from those who never got the key and they are having receipt that they purcased game for 0 bucks. So yeah, it is easier to revoke the keys with "sorry guys, shit happens"
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they could let those who activated a key, keep it and revoke all others not activated, which means those who abused it (for personal profit like trade) most likely lose the additional keys..
it is also an option to revoke all keys for those who abused it and took a lot of copies at 0$ that way they will teach the abusers a lesson.
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I mean, bastard could get 10 keys for his account. But all of them could be also given to 10 different people, and every one of them could be used by those 10 "good guys", so trader is only left with horde of duplicates.
If you revoke his duplicates, those "good guys" will lose their game.
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They were not their keys, so even if they won't revoke it, CAPCOM can. They are the publishers, and since a lot of keys ended up on trading sites, they may revoke them. GamesPlanet is just a reseller, so they left a notice, that they will not revoke keys, maybe CAPCOM will do.
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It entirely depends on how their keys were obtained. Many stores buy keys in bulk i.e. Amazon buys 5000 keys of w/e game at wholesale rates and then charge retail to their customers, thus profiting. I believe this is how GMG and GamersGate do it, which enables them to have their coupons and their own exclusive sales, whereas Steam sales are all publisher decided. GMG etc. are willing to profit less so are able to do this. In this case, the publisher has already been paid.
However, there are other retailers (like Steam) who literally act as a consignment shop for games, so the retailer doesn't get paid until after sales are final. If GamesPlanet does business like this, its almost assured the keys will be revoked once Capcom make a move. Capcom are a notoriously slow company to act, so theres time but I wouldnt be surprised to see them revoked if this is how GamesPlanet does their sales. Smaller and regional sites are more likely to do business like this because it costs less to maintain an inventory. If they sell their amount of keys for a game they just hit up the publisher for more.
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All digital sales* work like latter. GMG/GamersGate just "pay" coupons from their margin (generally 30%). This is why all coupons are on the same range and games everywhere are generally at MSRP price or small discount/coupon. This means that they don't technically own their stock and they pay based on contract ie. 70% of MSRP while keeping 30% for themselves. This means there is no "loss" unless they undercut price heavily (like in this case ~70% per sold or rather given copy)
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Yep, wonder if that means they wont do anything anyway. I hope so ^^
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Wasn't revoked -> wasn't revoked yet -> we don't know were or not -> maybe weren't revoked -> maybe were revoked -> revoked?
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You read right! I know that for some of you the game has been revoked, but mine wasn't revoked yet.
I just went back to the reseller's website and they wrote a note:
"Notice
Hi Gamer!
By mistake this game has been on sale for free. It was never intended to be free, shit simply happenend. As a result the world hit us hard during the night. Our service has been down for several hours.
We saw comments on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Price-Comparison-Pages, Forums, well… the internet. We did read them all and enjoyed the love shared for Gamesplanet.
Be assured, we will write a full post-mortem about the last night and you will get to know all details.
Last but not least: We saw comments on Reddit, that keys would get revoked on Steam. This is not true! We did not take action in any way yet."
Here's the link to the page if you don't believe me: https://uk.gamesplanet.com/game/dead-rising-3--2683-1
EDIT: so... it seems they added that "yet" keyword there, but I really hope the keys won't get revoked, because I'm planning to play it, but my PC isn't good enough for it (yet).
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