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No, thanks

3 years ago
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I figured out that this is worth of sharing

Are you sure?

3 years ago
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Yes actually. A lot of people are still buying from DIG, this is in the most cases cheaper alternative.

3 years ago
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If someone has to jump through this many hoops to save 10 cents, that person probably should be spending their money on something besides computer games.

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Saving 10 cents is one way to look at it.. other way is getting 10 more copies of the game for the same value.

3 years ago
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Nothing new tbh, i'm pretty sure a lot of users know about this already, the only problem is that not everybody has webmoney account to pay for it

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Agree, this is old. Point was to show that everybody can buy from there, using steam wallet, you don't need webmoney or qiwi. People still think that you need to have russian funds to buy from there.

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Such shops are pure cancer.
But i was mabye never their customer target because i don't buy shovelware and not from price exploiting devs.

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im russian and never used this

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humble tier 1 offers better value and these russian keys are often region locked, also their prices are not that cheap when you compare it to third party marketplaces

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I think he is talking about shovelware for 1-10 cents, not actual games. Those are definitely cheapest in Russia (cheaper than on any of the typical key stores), and I don't think they ever have a region lock. As for "normal" games - yes, their price on key sites often matches russian price, because the keys you buy there actually come from Russia or similar cheap countries.

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Prices for "normal" games often cost less in russia too, but there is a catch - keys for "normal" games usually region-locked to RU/CIS (or even RU-only), since publishers don't want rest of world to buy them cheap (unlike those shovelware "publishers")/

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okay but those shovelware literally end up later in a ig bundle plus they tend to get delisted by steam in bulk so why bother buying them or give them here? i dont understand

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I can't tell you that. ;)

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To exploit the cv system...
~15 cents for 20-50 CV ... till someone write a "add game" ticket with all the infos....

Think about how many make such tickets and how much staff members are active...
... and you see why people give them in high ammounts away

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i mean even if you do giveaway those games to exploit cv, after steam delist them, or end up in a giveaway or ig bundle, doesn't that drops the cv value, resulting drop in levels?

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I am not sure about all cases because a lot of that games get not delisted. If they break no rules, and to take exorbitant prices for crap isn't forbidden, nothing happen.

I know a good bunch of users that are mostly level 7-10 that have a good part of that levels from such "great games" that they bought each for 4-18 cents.

I am one of the people that report such games to reduce at least the full cv advantage.
But as example 15% of 50p = 7,5cv for 10-15 cents is anyway a good deal for them.

The support had the tracker link since one year and from me they got it a few months ago too.
They would be able to program a script that set all of that listed games automatic to reduced cv ..... if they want(ed).
It give enough with experience at sg that were able to help out if the support haven't the time or experience.

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ok so they are just sitting on the info and doing nothing about it? :\ weird!! anyway thank you for explaining it thoroughly!

3 years ago
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They do maybe something but not "fast/soon".
And they can only do what cg allow/want.

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ah understood.. hopefully they do something about it asap

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This is why I feel that CV is generally useless past the "you give a bit every now and then" level 2, maybe 3

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I see that a lot of people don't understand topic.. it's "how to buy", not "how to exploit cv here".. -.- I'll wait to see how many blacklists I'll get for this one, than I might write other one, just to compare numbers :D
¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Same as DIG buying indiegala and humble bundles and selling games seperately for 2-3 euro a piece.

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Блин даже в рашке к таким сайтам относятся с осторожностью, да и нафига оно вообще надо если я могу за 50 деревянных на Хамбле купить пак норм игр?
I would not trust such sites in the hope of saving money. As they say in Russia - " a miser pays twice"

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TLDR?

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You don't need russian funds to buy shovelware, you can use steam wallet via skins.

3 years ago
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No I mean your full walltext what is the TLDR?

Why russians?
Why Skins?

3 years ago
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Welcome to steamgifts?

3 years ago
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Why?

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https://www.steamgifts.com/about/guidelines

The below is a list of content that is not allowed in our community

14 Reselling keys and links to reseller stores. Do not use our site to resell keys, and do not post offers from stores which allow third parties to resell their keys or gifts.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ye, that is why I have @Mods part.. these are not resellers, they are first hand at sale. If it's against rules like I said I'll close it, but to me it doesn't look so. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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He isn't using this thread to resell keys or show offers from these sites though.

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Despite many negative comments, I found your thread quite informative. I don't think I'll ever use those kind of sites but I was always curious about them so thank you for this post :)

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What exactly is "WOT"?

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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wall%20of%20text
Popular internet term for a lot of boring text :)

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Huh. This is the first time I've heard it abbreviated.
WOT usually means Web Of Trust, a popular browser add-on for scoring site content / trust / danger / etc.

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And I first time hear about web of trust..
On internet forums it always mean wall of text (except maybe on forum of that extension, or forums for worlds of tanks.. even if it existed years before those came up)

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You should delete this for your own good.

3 years ago
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Lol, why? :)

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Thanks.

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I seriously can't all those ppl who "want you to delete this thread".

I found it informative, thanks :)

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So... Lemme take the fall for those in my shoes, but what's shovelware, and what's the difference between it and a cheap/low quality indie title? (No offense meant to Indie devs by any means, just trying to figure this out. XD)

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I was roughly aware of what shovelware is, however I was asking for a difference between Russian shovelware and a cheap/low quality indie title, something that neither of you really delved into, simply allowing for the simple google search, which instead of attempting to be patronizing about could have been avoided with a bit of etiquette, common sense, and reading the entirety of my post. Believe it or not, simply dropping the links could work, although it still doesn't really answer the difference aspect of my question.

Thus, when I ask what it is, one can simply say things like "There's little difference between low quality indie titles on steam and shovelware, the latter is just a bunch of rubbish bundled." Or something along those lines. Alternatively "The games from shovelware sites make low quality indie titles looks like AAA ones."

You forgot basic manners, but I don't have the time to dedicate to teaching you them. So this is the part where I label you as an asshole and move on with life, maybe after reminding you to read the entirety of a post.

Have a wonderful day.

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Why so serious?

I wasn't trying to be an asshole to you or veebles, it was a joke. Now you are being an asshole. Have a nice day to you sir/madam.

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OLD, i am using plati for 10 years now, its legit but not all sellers there are professionals

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I see 1 additional risk though.

Steam has been closing accounts that they are accusing of money laundering. Mostly this was users buying games with the steam wallet and giving them to others.
Buying skins with steam wallet and using them to buy stuff at Russian stores, might be putting you at risk for getting flagged as well. Resulting in Steam closing your account with warning and without good customer support to solve it after. Not a certainty that this will happen, but the risk is there...

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not in the EU and the free market rule!

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Closed 3 years ago by juzer.