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Steam keys for the unavailable disaster game The Day Before are being resold for up to $400, despite its servers' uncertain future (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 11 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 29 points 11 months ago

The ecosystem of scammers and idiots is still operating just fine.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

uncertain future

IDK, I think the future of the servers is pretty certain: they're going down in January. There's not a lot of uncertainty there.

They updated the article to say this, I just thought the Lemmy blurb was funny.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who TF is paying for this?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Probably the same people who pay for NFTs

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

You would think that if steam is retroactively refunding purchases on it, that they would have the keys to it disabled/revoked