Hello,

Some time ago, I bought a key from G'Gaming. Due to my recklessness I didn't notice it was indeed not a Steam key but a R* one.

What I'm getting on about, is it allowed to trade this retail store key with someone (for a Steam one possibly) or do keys/games have to be specifically on the Steam platform?

Thanks in advance.

4 years ago

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I believe that Steam keys for GTA 5 have never existed. If you want it on steam, you have to buy directly from the Steam storefront. All keys are for the Rockstar launcher.

4 years ago
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There are no keys for Steam. You can only buy steam version through steam or i don't know if they still exist but maybe as a steam gift.

4 years ago
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You can trade whatever you want to over on the Trade section https://www.steamtrades.com/ of SteamGifts, just make sure to specify it's a Rockstar key.

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4 years ago
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I've already learned that through tears of deception T.T

4 years ago
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Ah, this is the one I was looking for. An approval to trade whatever.

Thank you.

4 years ago
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Anything legal obviously.

Don't do drugs kids!

4 years ago
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Don't bust my nuts, mate :/

4 years ago
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Hi guys can I ask you something? Where can i buy gta 1 and 2 steam keys?

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You can’t. As far as I know, GTA1 and 2 were never on steam. I recall a while back being able to get them for free direct from R but idk if that’s still the case or if they are W10 compatible. Still worth exploring Rs site to see if they’re there

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They are on steam but I think they are no longer for sale. They used to be included in a bundle:
Grand theft auto complete pack.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/12170/Grand_Theft_Auto/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/12180/Grand_Theft_Auto_2/

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Yeah, I don't recall them ever being listed for individual sale, either. But I believe the complete pack was available as a key for a duration on a small number of sites (a recollection both the thread I linked and the user comments below appear to support). May still be able to get them through grey market, but I imagine they'd be as overpriced as old gift copies would be. Rather an extreme measure to take for games that can still be downloaded DRM-free for free.

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Sweet, I didn’t know that, thanks. Must have been an old bundle. I bought the bundle several years ago that had 3, VC, and SA, maybe even 4? It would be cool for Rockstar to make them available again

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I got it with the gta complete pack from gmg, it was some years ago.

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This. Bought from gmg and its include 1 - 2 too eve its not listed on sale page.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/GameDealsMeta/comments/7djrt6/where_i_can_find_gta_1_and_gta_2_steam_keys_are/

Things shouldn't have changed at all in the past couple of years. The download links (for the english version of the game) over at that German website still seem to be up, if you just want the games themselves. As for keys, I believe only a few sites had access to keys for the complete collection. I don't believe individual keys were ever available, so you'd be looking at (overpriced) old gift copies.

As a rule of thumb, both CD Projekt Red and Rockstar keys are always for their native platforms, rather than for Steam [with Steam copies only being available through Steam itself]. So it'll always be hard-to-impossible to find Steam keys for their games.

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In addition to CDPR and Rockstar, Ubi, EA, and possibly Bethesda also generally do not give Steam keys on third party sites. I thought I had read Bethesda was killing their launcher but around November I bought a Beth key for Wolfenstein Youngblood without realizing it wasn’t Steam.

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Early on I recall that Bethesda indicated they'd probably eventually be fully moving towards launcher exlusivity, but after things went sideways with both the launcher and FO76, I think that plan was dropped. Plenty of Bethesda games have widespread Steam key availability, be that first-party games [Elder Scrolls, Fallout] or those from their subsidary developers [eg, Arkane, ID], so they're not historically opposed to Steam keys in any way. You can, of course, now find non-Steam keys, and perhaps they are still moving ahead with exclusivity with newer games, but at the very least they don't appear as though they'll be removing the availability of earlier Steam keys.

[I did take a look, and I'm not seeing any steam keys for Youngblood, so yeah: Definitely gotta check into those newer games.]

EA officially cut off with Valve, leaving only a few older games on the launcher, so it's hard to really put a pin on them as being opposed to Steam keys, since properly speaking they're just opposed to Steam itself. The games they left on Steam have had Steam keys [at the very least, through Humble bundles], so it doesn't seem as though they're opposed to that aspect of it.

Ubisoft actually not only sells Steam keys on their website, they've actually made at least one game that is exclusive to Steam [due to it requiring Steamworks for multiplayer]. Ubisoft is usually pretty okay with their games being Steam keys, though they do make a point of making sure their games activate through Uplay regardless of which client you activate them on.

In short, all the ones you mentioned ARE worth mentioning, but I intentionally stripped them out of my original post due to them not being quite the same in their reliablity of exclusivity. ^.^

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GTA Collection at yuplay.ru for 999 rubles has a ROW key and includes GTA1 and GTA2. If they still have it available to non-Russian buyers.

and the steam versions of GTA1 and 2 don't work on modern systems (win 8/10)

There is a fixed GTA1 which can drop in on top of the Steam version: https://gtaforums.com/topic/860039-grand-theft-auto-max-pack-a-complete-pack-ala-gog/ or played standalone

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The ones Rockstar gave away free on their website did, but now one must search the internet for a download link for them. Other than that, yep, the best bet is VirtualBox or VMware, and a virtual WinXP machine. Win98 would be better, but even the VMware emulation is wonky with that and games run abysmally.

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Had a friend who found an old Win98 laptop in a thrift store for $5, got a new battery online, and uses it to play all those old DOS and Windows 9x games. The computer was old enough to be Pre-XP but new enough to have a USB port and CDROM drive. I think he also replaced the HDD with a compact flash adapter.

4 years ago
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Reading the steam reviews it seems like R is now forcing the Steam version to use the R launcher so I don't really see the point in getting the steam version.

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AFAIK it always did. You cannot play any Rockstar game on Steam since LA Noire without Rockstar Social, Steam is essentially selling Rockstar keys, like how they are selling UPlay keys for UbiSoft games.

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The download servers of the Rockstar Launcher are absolutely trash and it's worth buying it on Steam for that reason alone. If I want to play GTA V there is also usually an update which is downloaded automatically by Steam, but doesn't start until I open Rockstar launcher and then I will have to wait for an hour, killing my GTA mood.

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My point exactly.

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Closed 4 years ago by Kozo.