bonesmccoy
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You mean 'technically, yes', right? Them buying/selling keys from a reseller isn't illegal.
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XCOM 2 (PC/Mac/Linux, Firaxis, November 2015) announced [Up: New info/screens in OP]
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You mean 'technically, yes', right? Them buying/selling keys from a reseller isn't illegal.
Azwethinkweiz
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Looks like someone already snagged it. Thanks anyway!
Woo-Fu
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Waste of time arguing whether grey market is legit or not, particularly since the only opinion that matters in that argument is that of the publisher who can decide to turn off any keys they want to.
Psychoward
Banned
Ha, this would be a decent OT title. Better than any of the system wars ones at least.
GwyndolinCinder
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So seems we're not gonna have to suffer the usual bullshit steam release time, and we all get midnight unlocks, xcom bby.
Still no pre-load, though. It would seem 2K is taking a leaf from Bethesda's book: there won't be a pre-load period, but when the game unlocks in AU/NZ, Valve will change the general release state to change to preloadonly.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Trump was right to be xenophobic. We should have built the space wall. Mars would have paid for it.
Source?
It's not unlocking at midnight everywhere, but as per the store page it does have region-specific unlock times. AU/NZ are getting the game first (1 day and 1 hour from now... and ~12 minutes).
In one of the dev streams, they made 'Ronald Frump' and in his bio put something like "Making XCOM great again". That would even better.
Oh, you're right, says so here 1 day and 13 hours. I'm in Brazil.
I am being robbed of 12 hours. I want proper. legal. representation.
Can't play it until after work Friday and my internet will do 50 gigs before I finish eating dinner so doesn't matter to me when it releases. Would take the day off, but Fridays and Mondays it's pretty essential that I be at work. So I took Tuesday.
Have any reviewers mentioned how long it took them to finish and on what difficulty?
Have any reviewers mentioned how long it took them to finish and on what difficulty?
GMG are a 2k partner, they took part in the competition for the UK event, there's an interview between Garth and a GMG representative on their website, the XCOM-2 page identifies the keys as coming directly from firaxis... and their twitter indicates that they are waiting for the OK from firaxis before releasing the keys.
I'm pretty sure that they are 'very official' for this. (although it would be good if Firaxis/2k had a page with 'authorized resellers' - something that ubisoft does have).
Of course it's safe, stop listening to nonsense people spread on this site.
TotalBiscuit said something like 60 hours on normal (veteran?) difficulty; said he felt it was too easy and recommended classic (commander?) difficulty for XCOM veterans (parenthesis?)
BRocknRolla
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I've bought from them numerous times. Never had any issues. CD Project Red is also the only dev I've heard complain about them (Perhaps there are other examples too), but given that they had a financial incentive not to have other folks undercut their own store's prices, I found the whole thing a bit... dubious.
GMG was also reselling retail keys for Anno 2205 and AssCreed Syndicate. The games being 42%/36% cheaper than elsewhere at launch, respectively, made that quite clear as GMG's cut, like other digital stores that aren't Humble, is 30%, meaning that if the keys had been sourced from Ubi itself, GMG would have been losing money on each and every sale as it's legally obligated to provide Ubi with 70% of the revenue.
These days GMG mentions the source of keys on product pages, so there's no potential cause for alarm with XCOM 2.
Same boat as you... Same boat.
BRocknRolla
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I'm not saying there wasn't merit to the complaint. If it was a matter of reselling keys from one region to another, I do think that's problematic. However, I simply thought it was a bit strange that anyone selling it cheaper than the Gog was getting dinged. Once again though, it's not to say that didn't directly imply some shenanigans, but I thought it was interesting as GMG seemed to have generally had a pretty good reputation overall. Thanks for the additional info. Good to see GMG is talking about the key sources now to avoid these kind of issues.
Also, not on topic, I saw Brooklyn over the weekend. I thought it was pretty good.
Correct. You should be able to install and unlock the game while connected to an AU/NZ VPN, though, once the game has unlocked there (in roughly 24 hours and 45 minutes).
Oh, I wasn't rebutting you; just clarifying that The Witcher 3 wasn't the only case.
It finally releases here in a week. Looking forward to seeing it, needless to say.
BRocknRolla
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You don't get to 1000 hours of play by waiting until your official regional release.
jediyoshi
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If we're saying legit is short for legitimate, then technically, no. There's no accounting for what happens to those keys at any point and they're up to the whims of the publisher entirely without recourse. For example, if you purchased Arkham Knight through gray market, you wouldn't have been eligible for their refund offer. There's no actual channels between the distributor and publisher versus a legitimate seller.
Thanks guys, bought it
Cannot wait to play it (love the previous one)
Pheace
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No they don't. When it's not the publisher directly it now says "Authorized Seller".
That's basically slang for "We bought it from some other retailer and now we're reselling it to you for more"
And the fact that they are still capable of offering discounts up to where they do makes it *extremely* unlikely they're selling keys from/in the regions they were intended for.
That said, they're still a store, so they're going to try and stand by their keys if you have problems, which, imo, if you complain about a key that says "Authorized Seller", they don't have a foot to stand on and are likely to give you the benefit of the doubt.
TC McQueen
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Codes don't stack. You can only use code per purchase.
Well, obviously GMG isn't going to mention "These keys were sourced from Physical Stock Pile A transferred from Warehouse B by Distributor C" or whatever for resold keys as that could get a lot of people in trouble and ruin the supply line. My point was that GMG now differentiates between resold keys and keys obtained from publishers themselves, but, admittedly, I could have made that a little clearer.
I can't confirm since I'm at work, but a stem user just posted on steam forums that preload is available, 24.7gb download size
http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/412446292752661989/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/412446292752661989/
BennyBlanco
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Wonder why this game is a Friday release.
GwyndolinCinder
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GMG this shit just got real, where are our keys!
Incendiary
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Firaxis did the same thing with Civ: Beyond Earth. Not sure why, it just seems to be their thing?
LuciusAxelrod
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Just got my key from GMG. I am very excited to play this game.
Goldfishking
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I imagine they want to get it out earliest as possible. Today (3rd Feb 2016 at 4:30 ET) is when they (Take-two) announce Financial Results for Fiscal Third Quarter 2016. So tommorow and friday will be included in Q4.
Tl;dr business stuff
Edit: Just got my key from GMG too.
It isn't illegal, but it isn't "legit" either.
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