[PSA] Claim your Groupees keys [UPDATE: Groupees in back with 2 Steam bundles]

Fun... Lot of keys I have no idea if they work or not...

Thanks for the update. Thought it was the end of July but looks like they have extended it.

Thanks for that scraper, it could be useful.

Still, man, I'll be better off activating all I can over the next few weeks at this point. I keep hoarding keys like there's no tomorrow while in truth I've got no time for trades, for a long time...

Thanks for the info, seems that i had several bundles there from 10 Jears ago, that i had never claimed. Many games could go waisted. Thank you for the advice.

Great post! thank you

Was missing a few downloads and key redemptions. Thanks for the warning.

I downloaded and bought tons of music and digital assets from Groupees. Thanks for reminder, will download them all.

are they steam key ?

They used to do good bundles back in the day. Best price for pier solar for example.

Heads up boop

I had my account with Facebook login and it is no longer working. I guess all my content is gone.

Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks for the update
Found a guide in groupees chat https://imgur.com/a/CS1c3xm

Steam key is invalid – Help Center
https://groupees.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204788529-Steam-key-is-invalid
How long are keys supported for? – Help Center
https://groupees.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207216196-How-long-are-keys-supported-for-

What everyone should know.(I guess it doesn't change the fact that if the key doesn't work, you still have to talk to support....)
And if you try to redeem too many keys in a short period of time, things can get strange, so when you do, pause for an hour or two.

And they're announcing such things via twitter? Have they ever heard of e-mail, as in, sending a message to their customers' registered addresses? Good thing there's SteamGifts and Lilly!

Thanks for the links to the grabbers! I started a few days ago to download all my music but it's taken me a lot of time to do it by hand.

It was such a nice bundle vendor, shame it has to go :(

Meh, few years ago when I remembered Groupees even existed and tried downloading some comics and music I realized their servers are shite and I'd die of an old age before I download anything so I just gave up. It's not like it's some very quality content anyway.

Facebook login does not work and logging in by Twitter or email shows empty account without anything. Already created support ticket.

A few pointers:

- There's a nice step-by-step guide by a cool Groupees user for convenience for anyone else that needs help on setting up the downloader

- The fastest way to retrieve all your keys (Steam or not) is:

.\GroupeesDownload.exe dump-bundles  --cookie "YOUR-LONG-COOKIE-STRING" 
.\GroupeesDownload.exe unmark-trades --all  --cookie "YOUR-LONG-COOKIE-STRING"
.\GroupeesDownload.exe unmark-giveaway --all  --cookie "YOUR-LONG-COOKIE-STRING"
.\GroupeesDownload.exe reveal-products --all  --cookie "YOUR-LONG-COOKIE-STRING"
.\GroupeesDownload.exe reveal-keys --all  --cookie "YOUR-LONG-COOKIE-STRING"
.\GroupeesDownload.exe export-keys

Each step should refresh the bundles.json file, however you can do a last ./GroupeesDownload.exe dump-bundles before "export-keys" to be sure

- aria2c defaults to 5 concurrent downloads, try to lower that using --max-concurrent-downloads=<N> and set N to a reasonable value to avoid hammering the server and (potentially) breaking it for everyone

- Don't use aria2c's feature of splitting individual downloads (--split=<N>) it's useless, it won't give you better speeds, and it's likely going to hammer the server even more. Expect a few corrupted downloads if you use this feature.

- Right now downloading speeds suck. I was expecting to be able to retrieve my entire library in like 10-15 days, now I'm facing 10x that.

- If no one at Groupees renew the domain (groupees.com) the site will die on or around August, 21st, even if the servers are still up

- Be prepared to encounter a lot of revoked keys, a lot of moronic devs that never gave keys to Groupees despite promising them on Greenlight bundles and many, many. many bad memories coming back all of a sudden.

- Some very-well known publishers revoked all unused keys from past bundles: 1C, 8floor,... You'll have FULL bundles with their games with useless keys.

- You'll also find a lot of itch.io links, be careful with those. Some of them include a Steam key. some of them included a Steam key (they're out of stock right now) and many of them were deleted/disabled by, again, moronic devs, preventing you to access something you paid money for. Thankfully, Groupees almost always included DRM-downloads so you'll still have access to some form of the game (without the latest updates/patches). Problem is that with these speeds, I'm not sure you'll be able to download all your stuff, or that the server won't eventually say bye-bye du to the high load and hammering if people just blindly follow the script instructions and launch aria2c with the default "let's do 5 concurrent downloads, that will help me get everything faster" option (hint: it won't).

- If you download or have downloaded a great amount of stuff from Groupees (especially if you have a big library) it would be nice to share the hashes of your downloads, so people can check theirs and see if they match. The more people that would help doing these, the more accurate file hashes we'll be able to collect.

- Don't forget to thank the moronic developers and publishers who revoked the Steam keys you paid money for by leaving a negative review. Either on the game they revoked the key for (if you got it on another bundle/steam sale), either on the rest of their games you might own. I might create a thread just to organize such a thing because I'm really fed up of these practices and I think we should at least strike back.

- Groupees chat still works and it's quite active, however another cool user (dontasciime) created a discord server were Groupees users can continue to meet and talk.

- I you were into music bundles, many of them included past bundles from the series as gifts you could gave away. And they were recursive (o understand recursion, you must first understand recursion) so, for example, AWITW FINAL BUNDLE would give an extra copy of the complete AWITW 13 BUNDLE, which included an extra copy of the complete AWITW BUNDLE 12, which included an extra copy of the complete AWITW BUNDLE 11, and so on... Meaning that if you gift someone the complete AWITW 13 BUNDLE, that someone will have AWITW BUNDLE 12, AWITW BUNDLE 11, and so on... Feel free to gift away the extra bundles you might have (there's a trades channel both on the Groupees chat and the discord server). Some comic bundles also had this feature (MARKOSIA bundles come to mind), I don't remember if any games bundle did that, though.

Fell free to reply to this comment and add/ask anything you like.

Damn I forgot to redeem some of the coding coupons and now they expired. Didn't expect them to expire... ah well.

I backed up most of the music bundles.

Haven't heard that name in a long time.
Seems I only had 1 game marked as unused, already own it though. Time to download the music and finally check them after 5 years I suppose XD.

SANCTUARYRPG
Desura key: GMTWI-UCVS3-EMQCY-C78XN-C2IN6
HA146-GRZW6-5UE99-YNKE2-TFWY2

THE LEGEND OF THE ARTIFACT
Desura key: JUYIP-VOBYA-G642F-XOQH8-5WBCY

ASTRAEA
Desura key:IIVPA-7OBDJ-ZNLTW-2F68C-R6A4K

375 GB later I have finished downloading everything from my account. (Already scraped all the steam & itch keys long long ago)

RIP Groupees!