The latter option does leave you with the game in your Steam account though, which is infinitely more convenient than downloading a repack made by some Russian somewhere in 15 parts from 5 different filesharing websites

...I mean, I assume. It's not like I've ever bought a game... or several games... from resellers side-eye-2

[–] harpuajim@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I almost always buy games from resellers as long as it's the best price. I'd rather have something cataloged in my Steam/Epic/Origin/etc library than deal with having to deal with the installation manually.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I usually end up buying from resellers in cases where I've been waiting for one of the big Steam sales for a game, only to discover the price not discounted as much as I'd hoped.

Or, in the last case where I used cdkeys.com, I waited until the last day of the Steam Summer Sale to get a game but found out that game's discount had already ended, presumably due to timezone shenanigans or something. Went to check cdkeys and the game was still there with the discounted price so yeah, I ended up getting a grey market key.

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does cdkeys.com really count as grey-market? AFAIR, they directly purchase all their keys from legal sources. Unlike G2A and the like who shove fingers in ears and say "we're just a key marketplace".

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

That's actually nice to hear. I just assumed it was a Kinguin-style operation from their pricing

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