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30 Mar Death penalty: Beginning
mkay then....
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Twitter: @ViGames_Officia
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Still got mine, and judging by date (15th jan), and activations that I had same day, got it from DIG. (so, not a freebie)
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As for what this dev is doing, it's inconceivable to me that this will end well for him moving forward.
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Still in my library... I 100% did not pay for this... so probably free or something?
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If anyone figures out the reason behind this, I'd love to know.
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Honestly I don't understand this. Even if someone broke into my house and stole steam keys (I don't have them in the house, nor anywhere else - they are requested from Valve, I'm just making a point - please don't break into my house) and released them all over the internet... I'd feel sorry for people who actually bought the game because they'd be in a disadvantage here... But would write an announcement saying what happened... and maybe some of people who ended up with stolen keys would feel bad and support my next project or something to give back... Not delete people's keys, that's like the most wrong thing you can opt to do.
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You can't ignore Steam's culpability in this. We've already seen several abuses, and they've done nothing to remedy it, so of course people are going to start taking advantage more.
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Got mine May 5th, can't figure out where from. Not revoked yet, possible I got it from a friend who bought it with the DIG bundle.
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I got mine in a bundle on DIG and it was revoked as well.
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Oh...? Well hmm, that's just nuts then. I think he's gonna be in hot water with Valve tbh...if that isn't rectified with users who legit purchased it.
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That's indeed very fishy but Steam doesn't simply revoke certain keys because they still can be legitimate copies and Steam has no power or knowledge on which sites or shops or bundles the keys end on and which keys are given out for free and others have been sold.
Steam only revokes individual keys pinpointed from the developer or publisher that are reviewed manually, afaik.
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that are reviewed manually, afaik.
This doesn't sound like the Valve I know :P
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It's all done by the dev these days...Valve has nothing to do with the process other providing the mechanism by which to revoke them.
But if a dev is abusing the feature, I think Valve would surely step in once made aware, because it reflects rather poorly upon their platform.
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Yeah, it looks like there needs be a lot more control over this from Valve because the developer alone deciding which keys get revoked is kinda weird to me. If Valve would demand clarification for every single key that's being handed out, it would take ages to verify all of them but if the developer has to clarify whole batches of them before handing them out, these keys shouldn't even be revokable anymore after doing so (like batch #2 used for public giveaway etc.) without Valve having to step in.
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Last I heard, mass revokes still go through Valve.
I suppose the janitor handles that.
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It wouldn't even surprise me if they automated this by default.
On a sidenote mine still isn't removed (DIG Key)...nothing about it makes much of any sense here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I don't think Steam as a platform is held in much high regard by anyone this day and age.
Even the most fervent defender must be aware it's covered in a thick, very thick layer of shit.
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It looks like the dev is doing you a favor by removing it from your account.
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Mine got removed too. There is no problem with that, as long as it's communicated properly.
In this regard, the developer failed completely and goes straight to my personal blocklist.
The only thing now that bothers me is that i can't remember where exactly i got it from.
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I also just got an alert that it's removed, can't find how I got it in the first place - it is not through SG or TremorGames, and I doubt I bought a bundle with it included, so a bit of a mystery right now.
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Two things:
- Two-dollar game originating from CIS with the dev having no other games under the same publisher name. 24% of total reviews are positive, where only two are written in English, pushing the English-language score down to 6%.
So, nothing of actual value was lost. Anyone in this thread who actually played this game, raise your hand. Nobody? Guessed as much. - Considering Steam games are indefinite licenses that can be revoked any time for no reason whatsoever, which all of us agreed to when registering our account, I do not really understand why the uproar when something like this happens. I am mostly referring to the Steam community thread, not this one.
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Anyone in this thread who actually played this game, raise your hand. Nobody?
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/WZtCNjF
gotcha ;-)
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only if we violate their agreement they can revoke a license from our accounts. They revoke keys without issues because there isn't a drect purchase via steam so they have the right to do w/e they want i guess.
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Oh, that is actually rather common in flight controls. Interestingly, also what I often set in action games with flying machines, even though I am the kind who gets eternally confused with reversed Y-axis.
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I did play it, as part of my efforts to actually go through my entire backlog.
I 100% agree with your argument that "nothing of actual value was lost".
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I agree with the rest, but not the English comment. Yes, most of us use English for convenience, but you can't disregard whole countries like that.
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You can, when it constantly happens that the majority of the positive reviews of an otherwise low-scoring game always happen to be either in Russian or Chinese. Or sometimes both. They are skewing the score more than stupid kids doing stupid meme reviews or obscene ASCII art.
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You can't disregard whole countries for any reason, let alone for game reviews. Somehow your response is worse than your original comment. But whatever, what do I expect.
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What is there to do? Dev either wakes up and gives everyone their copy back or we just learn to live with the loss (or buy it again).
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afaik there is no really a way to do it. Dev cannot un-revoke the key and Valve is unlikely to provide him contact emails to all accounts who had game revoked (would be very exploitable - make shitty asset flip, give away 1 million copies, revoke them, request emails, sell them to spambot operators, also in mostr of western countries would be considered violation of personal data protection on behalf of Valve), only thing dev can do in such situation is either give keys one by one over email cintaining proof of purchase (been down in the past with Nekro for example, but it becomes undoable due to amount of spam very quick and devs usually quit then, again as with Nekro) or to give new keys to bundle sites that were selling bundles for them to send new keys to buyers (but then again, people who got it from free GAs, reseller platforms like tremor or people who won it on SG will not get their new copies).
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Hello,
We started receiving reports on DailyIndieGame about keys being revoked.
I will email some of our contacts at Valve and let them know what's happening.
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I bought this game from the DIG Super Bundle 84 and to this moment it's not revoked, yet.
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STEAM keys can be revoked in batches of 200 ...
Please be patient .... you should have your game revoked soon (sorry for the sarcasm).
Worst case, we will offer refunds on the game price and that's that.
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We got our games back, so it seems everything worked out.
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i won this game here in 380-keys giveaway. Still on account
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Won mine on gleam giveaway and the notification minimized my game when it was loading, thought that my game crashed lol
Welp this is still not as bad as steam lowering my game count of like 50 games few months ago hahaha
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tbh these were not games I would play, just like this one
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Apparently even if you buy the game you won't be able to play it LMAO
http://steamcommunity.com/id/RoninHunteer1337/recommended/570380/
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/570380/Death_Penalty_Beginning/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/570380/discussions/0/2765630416826017814/
[Edit] Apparently all keys are revoked, also from bundles (and thus from Tremorgames too).
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/WzOGkfW
[Edit2] Looking at top reviews it also looks like bought copies from steam directly get revoked, so DO NOT BUY.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeGameFindings/comments/71f8jz/psadeath_penalty_beginning_re_added_to_account/
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