Remember that big Dead Island CD Key Scare?

There was a big thread on the Steam forums during the time when Dead Island CD keys were being traded pretty much everywhere. Reading it was pretty painful.... you had the people with the CD keys trying to convince people that it was totally legitimate to have 50 keys for a game with no proof or purchase, and then you had a bunch of completely clueless posters agreeing with them and going on about cheap Russian prices (again, with no proof of purchase), and anyone trying to point out that it seemed kind of suspicious got shouted down.

It sucks that a whole lot of people will have traded for the keys entirely unknowing of any potential problem, and now they've lost their trade items.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2547800

Thread in Steam Forums..

I dont always trade for steam games, but when I do I make sure to trade for gifts only within steam's trade thingy ;)

Well in the end its still the sellers having the last laugh

same here...gone gone gone

+1

Got mine from him. - Didn't know what this person is.

I'm glad, that my account is not suspended coz of this jerk.

You bought it from the worst person possible.

I'm glad theyre finally getting rid of the keys. I hope the people that scammed others with them get what they deserve. I feel sorry for the ones who bought them or traded thier legitimate games for though...

Same here, I got mine from this guy

I contacted steam and they told me all that crap about not trading for cd keys and such,
Oh well, could be worse, I just feel pissed that I gave away a game that I could be playing right now for that

Frequency has an exclusive rank on Tf2r lol

Generous Gentleman
[ FR3QU3NCY exclusive rank ]

Btw is it me or the tf2r community is pretty bad? too many trolls and leechers and ppl don't appreciate anything

so the lesson here is, never buy a key from a random guy

How fortunate, I had traded a game or two I had for a Dead Island key, the guy said the key was legitimate and I took his word for it.
The game is still in my library ^_^.

I got same alert from steam support

But i traded CD Key with with My EA account

So we should to make Ticket in steam support to get back our CD Keys or what ?

I thought the name in the OP's post sounded familiar. Then I realized I was in his group, along with that frequency guy. Had no clue about the kind of reputation those guys have. Left it immediately. Thanks for the head's up.

Edit: And now that I think about it, on the few times I went into the group chat, he almost always had multiple copies of Dead Island to give away, and it was the ONLY game he would give away. I Should have realized what was going on then.

your own fault tbh

Oh, I remember you. We talked about this before, didn't we? Wasn't that guy trading Bulletstorm CD Keys too?

Just wanted to mention how i was pratically invading threads for awhile at steamtrades warning ppl about the dead island keys, this was happending to people even last year & was reported in the dead island forums many times.

*These guys doing this pratically were raping during the steam pile event, Stockpiling hundreds of games through DI key trades. When it came more obvious from reports & keys being used before they can sell them they even got so desperate they would take nearly any legit steamgift for a key (Anything). As long as its legit it has value.

And yes some people do get suspended accounts, If it happends put in a ticket with steam & good luck.

I was longed hyped for dead island even years in advance so I was a preorder and glad to support them for a future release.

I tried warning people on Steamtrades and Steam forum since the day it was leaked.

Unfortunately no one gave a shit. Many even defended those dicks they got the key from.

I feel sorry for you, coz I wanted to buy copy for 2 dollars too, but then I realize it would be mistake and messing arround with steam when you have 220 games is kinda crazy:/

Happened to me too. I traded a copy of Terraria for the serial last year. Looking through my trading history, I can't see the name of the guy who fleeced me, though...

Regardless, may he contract a double dose of incurable ball cancer, and his mouse hand wither to a pustulent stump.

I hope he installs Origin.

On multiple PCs.

Utter scrote.

Were these the exploited keys that fknowned was spamming last year?

Scammer or not he has CS:GO beta

damn it. why???? fucking assholes deactivating my key ;(

Oh great,

I bought mine cheap from some guy :/

This motherfucker is the person who hacked steamforums and by hacking an admin account , he got access to the steam database.
Absolutely stay away from that fag.