How does CD keys work? I just buy the key for literally 80% off? Is that even legal?

How does CD keys work? I just buy the key for literally 80% off? Is that even legal?

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At least try to hide the fact that you're underage

how young are you?

You're buying stolen keys
That 80% discount doesn't come out of nowhere

Here's how it works
>Someone acquires key for cheaper than usual: this can be either a dev giving away keys, people buying keys with a stolen credit card, buying keys then issuing chargebacks etc
>Someone sells keys to key site, or the key site is the one getting the keys in the first place
>Key site sells key to you for less than retail price, but more than what they paid for it
>Key site makes money doing basically nothing
It's legal for you the end user. And it's also legal for the key site as long as they didn't do anything illegal to get the keys. Sometimes they do but they cover their tracks pretty well.

Anyway if you're such a poorfag you have to use keysites just pirate the game in question. It's safer, easier, will probably download faster, you'll never have the game taken away later due to legal BS, you'll never have auto-updates break things, won't need to install DRM...

Regional discounts/retail other promo shit in ideal case, the likely case stolen or bought via card chargeback method.
Bought 8 games so far from various sites, none got me in trouble thus far from steam or dev.

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Its a grey market. Everybody knows something fishy is going on, but they operate just between the lines of being legal. Most of them are based Hong Kong etc, so you know its a bit off

Yes it's legal for you, the customer. Whether they obtain the keys legally or not is another story. That being said, i've used Instantgaming a lot of times and never had an issue. Even bought a Switch game on there

as much as I like torrenting it definitely has its flaws. certain types of games receive constant daily or near daily updates and if you torrent you'll be months behind if not more, multiplayer almost never works (there's a few exceptions with hamachi but that usually requires the people you play with to also be pirates) also most of the time torrented versions don't have mod support.

Bought DMC5 for wicked cheap last year on it. Good site.

>Dark Souls 2 is actually the best Fromsoftware game

The only shifty part is regional pricing. Gabe is a fat kike and I hope those globules of cholesterol in his veins travel to his brain.

CDkeys is legit. I only buy my xbox memberships off of there. Lots of money saved.

This, their 3 months Game Pass key is usually excellent value. Rona has driven the price up though.

>It's legal for you the end user.
lol. "sorry officer I didn't know this car someone sold me for $500 was stolen, I don't see how I could've possibly known or how I am complicit in the crime"

Thats a false equivalence bro, cars cost thousands, games cost 60. A 20 dollar discount is not a logical stretch.

This but unironically. If the key isn't advertised as stolen there's no reason you'd know it was stolen legally speaking. Thousands of stolen keys have been sold, zero users prosecuted.

Buying a stolen car isn't a crime. The car might be taken back but you're still not liable for anything.

NOOOOOO YOU CAN’T JUST HECKIN DOWNLOAD A CAR

you don't go to jail for buying stolen cars lol the worse they do is just take it away from you

Legitimately, yes. Why the fuck would you be held responsible for something someone else stole?

That's called possession of stolen goods and it's a crime unless you can prove that you had no way of knowing the item was stolen.

>I can pay less money for product
>"Hmmmm is this legal?"
Perfectly bred goy.

just pirate it.

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The burden of proof is on them to prove that the good was purchased with the knowledge that it was stolen, not the other way around. And that's hard to prove.
Which is why charges are rarely brought and the usual consequence is only the return of the good to the rightful owner.

>did u know this car was stolen
>uhhhhhhhh no

Hi, welcome to your first day on Yas Forums. Now fuck off.

>What did you pay for this car
>What do you mean you don't have a receipt who doesn't ask for proof of purchase for a fucking car
>That's it buddy you're coming with me

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>Check FG comments
>ESLs asking if it will run on their 1012 laptops
>Newfag asking if multiplayer works (sometimes it does but fuck off)
>Fuck mod posting screenshot of how much he seeded the game
>Retard posting screenshot of an error (usually pathname too long) and asking what to do
>FG calling him a retard because the error message literally tells him what to do

Why are pirates so retarded?

steam lets devs generate an unlimited number of CD keys (generally used for retail copies or for sales on their own website), this gets around steam's 30% cut so they sell them for cheap

Verified retailers like GMG or humble sell steam keys straight from devs that can sometimes be cheaper than steam itself.
On sites like g2a or kinguin anyone can sell so anything goes. Most keys are legit, but you can potentially buy stolen keys. Either way you're not responsible, worst that will happen is steam will remove a g2a key from your library.

The receipt for a second-hand car? You don't get outside much do you user?