Developers literally would rather you pirate than use key sites. Many many statements have been made, key sites are stolen keys and add to dev headaches, while devs get $0. Just pirate
if you pirated for money reasons but have money now, please go back and support devs whos games you enjoyed by getting the game for real or some merch or whatever.
@SirTapTap
Got a few games close to that age I'd pay 15 bucks for to get an executable that'd just run. Not to mention how exhausting a lot of the triple A space has gotten due to the F2P model being applied in 70+ dollar games. Funnily enough the industry is making a good argument for paying more for classic games since you can pay 100+ for modern titles and still don't own it.
@jonossaseuraava haha yeah, "pirate our games before using a key site" is genuine sentiment I've heard from many devs. They're usually literally stolen keys from fake reviewers/bundle sites/etc
Personally if I don't want to pay, I just won't play it 🤷 it's 2023 there's too many legitimately free games to play something from a company I don't want to pay money to
I have vague memory of reading from somewhere that the key site keys are often bought with stolen credit cards and then resold on the site. Then the original place gets hit with a charge back and loses real tangible money. The original place being the devs in case of indes.
Or something like that.
I'm completely OK buying keys off dark grey market for Microsoft products. Fuckers probably have more money than my home country's budget
And MS keys are a bit different. Those are pretty much exclusively bulk licenses. They're basically totally legit except the seller is breaking their TOS with Microsoft. Real key, real money exchanged on all parties. They're just not supposed to be reselling, no charge backs or direct theft.
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