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CDPR keeping Witcher 3 keys for Origin, uPlay and GOG; tell GMG to go pound sand
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I'm a US customer and bought Witcher 3 from GMG before the deal went live and paid $46. That's still cheaper than the Witcher 1+2 discount.
This has to be a misunderstanding, though. There's no way that it isn't. Keys can't be determined illegal or not yet because the keys won't be distributed until 2 weeks from now at the earliest and release day at the latest.
Gentleman Jack
Member
So now somebody get either GMG or Namco on the phone.
Portugeezer
Member
Someone intern at CDPR probably stole some keys and sold them.
CDPR self publish Witcher 1 and Witcher 3 on Origin, but Witcher 2 is published by Warner Brothers so they do seem to do it on their own on some storefronts at least.
Sorry, my post wasn't super clear. I'd imagine they make some kind of distribution deal beforehand, but keys are kept safe and sound to prevent bullshit before official releases. That's how I thought it worked at least.
Edit:
Ohhh. Yeah sorry, completely misread your post and assumed you confused GOG with GMG given that the acronyms are similar enough :lol
Also bad form for CDPR to come out and tell people not to buy from GMG without doing proper research first. It really makes it seem like "Oh someone posted a deal to a site where we make less money from sales. We should put the site into question while at the same time try and push GOG as the best place to buy."
I'd be super pissed if I were GMG and this is just a misunderstanding. Having an official representative from CDPR come out and say not to buy from them hurts their sales.
I'd be super pissed if I were GMG and this is just a misunderstanding. Having an official representative from CDPR come out and say not to buy from them hurts their sales.
Probably waiting to see how many will purchase before buying keys in a large batch, people freaking out over nothing.
Played them like a damn fiddle.
Played them like a damn fiddle.
Seriously tho, it's too bad this rolled out online when it did, pretty sure it's night where GMG is, so there's a chance they don't even know what's going on at this point.
Nabs
Member
lol he shut down the thread.
KnightHart
Member
Those are some pretty big accusations thrown at GMG. But we can't really say much without hearing GMG's side of the story
Also because I've been using GMG for the past like... 2-3 years to get new games on Steam. Hell, Cities Skylines, Battlefield Hardline, and Wolfenstein TOB from just the past 3 months I all got from GMG. With the Witcher 3 keys, that CDPProject CDPR is insinuating that there's some malicious intent in there with those CD keys without providing any evidence to back it up. I wonder if they've known about this for a while?
Also because I've been using GMG for the past like... 2-3 years to get new games on Steam. Hell, Cities Skylines, Battlefield Hardline, and Wolfenstein TOB from just the past 3 months I all got from GMG. With the Witcher 3 keys, that CDPProject CDPR is insinuating that there's some malicious intent in there with those CD keys without providing any evidence to back it up. I wonder if they've known about this for a while?
Phanatic8390
Member
Interestingly with a note about GMG having been caught twice selling bad Steam keys? I don't recall hearing about any issue like that.
Ryo Hazuki
Member
It's really poor form to see the mods react the way have on the CDPR forum, before hearing from GMG. They have now closed the thread. Gamespot should have reached out to GMG before updating too IMO. A lot of people in the comments are reacting negatively towards GMG yet nobody even knows what's actually happening yet.
chris121580
Member
People jumping to conclusions without evidence? No way! Sadly this has become the norm in society
Well the mods are going in hard there. Anyway does anyone have any idea what that last guy was talking about? As I have never heard of GMG being caught selling fraudulent keys before.
Yeah, I think he's confusing GMG with G2A.
That's news to me, when were these incidents out of curiosity?
Maybe he is confused and thinks that GMG = G2A
This is not how you react on official forum when these kind of issues are in question. Moderators saw post form CDPR and now they will close every conversation that want to include GMG response.
Gentleman Jack
Member
This mod is off his rocker. People just aren't talking to each other and it's shameful.
Have never heard of this, but as others have said, he's probably thinking of G2A.
As someone pointed out, those don't come with GOG keys, which these will be according to GMG's product page.
Not possible you need to log in with your GOG account to redeem game.
Google brings back nothing.
In fact, it brought up the stolen Sniper Elite 3 keys where GMG is listed as one of the licensed resellers.
Mods story spawned from a very particular black hole, from where it was tugged into the light.
Wait until CDPR, GMG and Namco have managed to talk to each other.
They ran out of keys once. (Can happen to anyone) They accidently had some duplicates go out once I think too. (Can also happen by accident to anyone)
That's all I've got from the last 4 years of using them. (Shrug) I don't know.
They like to sleep at night?
The most likely situation is that someone at at the CD Projekt forum is confusing GMG with G2A, which explains the comment about being caught with fraudulent keys (G2A).
Also, GMG is never ridiculously low priced like grey market sites. Usually it is 20-25% off brand new games, with a few select games getting extra discounts to around 30-35% off at launch (I think Thief was one?).
Also, GMG is never ridiculously low priced like grey market sites. Usually it is 20-25% off brand new games, with a few select games getting extra discounts to around 30-35% off at launch (I think Thief was one?).
It's night time where they are I believe.
He might be referring to a time where GMG ran out of COD Ghosts keys, then when new ones arrived, they wouldn't redeem on Steam, and GMG said it was a Steam problem, and Steam referred people to GMG. Took a couple of days for that to get sorted out, IIRC. Even then it just sounds like something went wrong somewhere between all 3 companies. (Valve, Activision, GMG) and that's why it took so long to resolve.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
They had some good sales for a while, but Ed Boon never really spoke out about GMG's $45 MKX. I assumed they were always legit. Twice is nothing compared to how well they do business, but once is just enough for a bad reputation/or banning.
I bought from GOG and PSN. I also got to wonder what's going on here. GMG is GS's competition in terms of PC distribution by the nth degree. I wonder if CDPR can't discuss this with GMG or GMG doesn't put an end to their practices. If I were GMG i'd be wanting to hit this launch just like they have before. Whose to say GMG is in the wrong or whose to say GMG is getting their reputation put on the line. I say that because they've been a legit service outside of Steam for amazing deals.
I'll say this too, when a Triple A game becomes a disaster and they saved you $15-$20 from being completely ripped off. GS had to change their ways. They know a game can come out and be completely horrible. I'm excited for The Witcher and I got the Expansion Pass off of PSN.
I'm shocked this has happened or it is even brought up. GMG has always been a legit outlet.
GOG has amazing compatibility to their games. They work great, but I had a horrible time with W2 GOG copy on Vista. I had to use Steam.
VibratingDonkey
Member
35% off sure sounds like a suspiciously unbelievable deal, but it's really not. 35% off the ridiculous ass "original price" of £50 merely brings it down to humane levels. £32.49 is actually pretty high up GMG's usual price range for pre-order deals.
If it was actually a ridiculously amazing deal, then the keys seemingly not being sourced from CDPR would most certainly be a reason for concern. But I'll give GMG the benefit of doubt on this one. They've a solid reputation and to my knowledge are yet to screw up. Let's see what they say.
If it was actually a ridiculously amazing deal, then the keys seemingly not being sourced from CDPR would most certainly be a reason for concern. But I'll give GMG the benefit of doubt on this one. They've a solid reputation and to my knowledge are yet to screw up. Let's see what they say.
Nabs
Member
Ryo Hazuki
Member
Yeah, this comment about GMG selling fraudulent keys is pretty libellous. Not the best note to close that thread on.
The Elite
BOSS
Because it's 8:45 at night over here and they'll likely not have the capacity to investigate let alone communicate to relevant parties internally and externally until tomorrow morning.
I imagine they went home for the day.
For their sake I hope that someone is keeping up with twitter during non-office hours or this might get really out of hand overnight.
GMG is based in the UK, I think. It's 9pm over there, so the people there probably should be aware of it already. Who knows if they can clarify anything in the evening hours, though. I doubt that the people in Poland (GOG / CD Projekt) are working right now either.
As far as i know, GMG is British.