How are the CD key sites able to sell so cheap compared to Steam? Seems like they might be doing some illegal shit
how much do you think it costs to make a key?
>>721250771Depends on the site.
>>721250771wow, it's almost like, steam sells you overpriced garbage and you eat that slop up like beans on toast. kek at your life.
Developers try to maximise profit by segregating markets by price, but steam doesn't region lock every key by country so you can often get a better deal by purchasing one from somewhere foreign
>>721250771>buy stolen credit cards details>use to buy game licences>sell game licences for moneyyeah, its called money laundering>>721251502>wow, it's almost like, steam sells you overpriced garbageyou act like you have no agency in this. you sound like the kind of retard who gets upset over lootboxes containing cosmetics.
>>721252304found a nice photo of you
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>>721252551you just admitted you lack the agency to not spend money on things you don't like. you are literally cattlebrained, anon.
>>721252702found a photo of your house.
>>721252992I accept your concession.
>>721253035You're a pig who lives in a dumpster THAT'S ON FIRE. Your opinions are invalid.
>>721251502wow, it's almost like you're a massive fucking retard
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>>721253242And yet you completely failed to prove me wrong. You lost. I accept your concession.
If you're buying a single player from a third party site you might as well just pirate unless you're a mentally ill achievement tranny.
>>721250771Sites are operated in countries with insanely small tax overall or small tax on digital goods like Saudi Arabia for example. Keys are being sold by publishers to vendors directly in bulk and Steam doesnt take 30% fee this way. Yes key activations dont give Valve a single cent. This is good system for everyone as publishers can sell keys cheaper and make profit same with vendors and then sellers and Valve avoids monopoly lawsuits.
They sell them at lower profit margin.Instead, they expect more people to buy it, so it evens out at least.
>>721250771The legit ones probably buy cheaper from publishers and then make do with a smaller cut from each sale for themselves, so they also sell cheaper to the customer. Basically it all works within Steam's usual 30% cut, Valve allows publishers to simply generate legit Steam keys for free and sell them somewhere else, as long as the publisher does this within reason. This isn't particularly common nowadays anymore, but years ago it wasn't particularly weird to buy a key from a keysite and to receive a literal photo of a code from a retail game box. Retail game boxes for PC games aren't really a thing anymore, but they used to buy "physical" PC games that were just a code in a box and then they resold the code online. In this case I'm guessing they were buying physical from countries where it was cheaper, or maybe they were buying discounted stock that hadn't sold in regular shops.The shady ones, usually those which aren't just a shop but work like ebay or other sites where you buy from other users, may just be selling keys that were bought with stolen credit cards and shit. I suggest not buying from any of these "user to user" sites as you're putting yourself at risk, if the key was acquired via shady means (like credit card fraud) Valve WILL deactivate it and remove the game from your account. If you buy from keysites at all, buy from the legit ones that are just plain shops, not from those user to user "marketplace" things.
>>721253659Would you like extra mayo on your slop this morning, little piglet?
