I already sent in a ticket - however I did not even get a warning / notifaction from steam I just always check sgtools every day and this just popped up today as not activated.
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Are you sure you didn't just set the game to private accidentally? Because for games removed from your library retroactively, you ALWAYS get a notification in Steam (the one with the yellow frame) which you have to explicitly acknowledge by putting a check mark and confirming with a button. Otherwise it will stay in your notifications.
Open your Steam client, search for "Deadfall" and in case you do find it, right-click it, select "Manage" and remove the private setting. Then resync SG and SGTools.
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https://steamcommunity.com/app/231330/discussions/0/600784500009599912/?ctp=8#c600784815203108361
The publisher responded. Hope this helps you.
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"Valve wants us to limit the unused keys stocks out there".
If Valve starts getting proactive on this it could spell the end for second hand markets based around bundle keys.
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Other publishers/dev studios have been told this as well. This isn't something new, it's just new info for a lot of people.
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By "unused", they mean unsold keys, not ones that are already in the hands of regular people.
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It might also mean unrevealed keys since Humble doesn't assign a key to a purchase until it's revealed. Of course, if it was unrevealed after 10 years, that's pretty crazy.
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https://steamcommunity.com/app/231330/discussions/0/600784500009599912/?ctp=3#c600784815203128478
When talking about unsold/unused keys, these are keys that Humblebundle never needed/used to fulfill any orders from customers. These keys are just laying on their stocks for years now.
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They said they already removed millions of unsold keys, but anything on a grey site would be considered sold.
To explain myself, if you go buy a fanatical bundle and reveal the keys, fanatical marks them as used. You might've not used the keys or consider them used yourself, but those keys are "used" and done for in the eyes of the seller. The guy reselling on a grey site is already selling "used" keys, that just haven't been redeemed yet.
In this case, the mistake happened because humble accidentally sent some log of already used keys. THQ had no blame in this. I can also reason with valve not being ok with millions of keys being out for a game. They should've never issued this many imo, but at a point this might've been popular, I can see how over time they don't want to provide support for these keys and how certain people could take advantage of this in ways valve doesn't want to nor would it's customers as it would make things worse.
In my case, I got my key from a physical copy of this game, so it didn't affect me. I still have my physical copy if they'd ever question it.
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They said they already removed millions of unsold keys [...] I can also reason with valve not being ok with millions of keys being out for a game.
That part was a bit weird for me as well, but I assume they meant the millions across their game selection. They had a lot of their portfolio in bundles and in stores, it could easily add up to millions.
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Unfortunately doesn't help in this case, because that replacement key is now in the Humble library of the original giveaway creator, who happens to not have been active on SG for more than 3 years. Still good to at least have official confirmation of the issue, so it should be easier to convince SG support.
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It just think it is crazyt they would do this to game I have had for 9 years. Have played for hours. Earned card drops. Have the level 3 badge for the game and think this is fine to do.
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They don't think it's fine. Humble made a mistake and THQ's solution doesn't cover cases like yours, where you didn't buy the game yourself and thus can't access the replacement key. You could even try to contact them and explain the background, although it's likely they won't understand it.
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I know humble won't. There stand on this the keys are not allowed to be given here and if you get caught doing it your account will be permantly banned there is many threads here talking about this topic. My main humble bundle account is actually banned for this very thing.
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Let's say as an example: Humblebundle got 20,000 keys back in the days for one title but only 15,000 were sold to customers. For years, the rest of 5,000 keys are now on their stocks without any usage. So the goal is to get a good amount of these 5,000 keys back for deactivation - like getting back 4,000 keys and letting them keep 1,000 for possible future orders which may be enough on older games (and if not, we can send them some new keys again of course) - an effort just to minimize the stocks of unused keys. This is Valve's (fully understandable) goal nowadays and we support the Steam team on that matter.
Anyone could ELI5 why they would set it as their goal? As far as I understand, it's not about keys that were sold but unused and are now circulating on the grey markets, but keys that are in stock of an accredited retailer. I'm just wondering what might be the rationale here.
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Valve wants to reach price-parity. That is games on Steam store and other store fronts sell for same price. And also it wants to cut down on trash games which are sold for cents. So to move more purchases on their own store. In essence to make more money.
One way for this is to limit number of keys that can be generated compared to copies sold on Steam.
And some old games has generated lot more keys than they needed. And these are just hanging... Revoking those and freeing them up allows them to generate more for other stores.
But this is just conjecture.
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Thanks! So some time ago they did what you said: "limit number of keys that can be generated compared to copies sold on Steam", and now they're just cleaning up some keys generated before the change? Makes sense. So it's probably not Valve telling THQ to burn the keys but more like saying "if you want to generate more keys, now or in the future, make sure to burn some of the unused ones that you generated in the past". And their rep explicitly said there were millions.
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Any one that has won Deadfall Adventures prepare to get suspended. The keys were just revoked. I won the game 9 years ago in 2015. My account has been suspended every time this has happened. I am making this post BEFORE I get suspened this time. Here is photo proof the game was in my account - https://imgur.com/a/YXwRVcN
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