Hi guys!

I just have a short announcement to all of you posting on our forums.

Please do not call any CD-Key store/seller/company a scammer, fraud or thief without providing any actual evidence. Feel free to post screenshots of your chats with them, PayPal transfers, messages, e-mails etc.

That would be all. From now on if you post something please think twice before calling someone names.

From now on thanks to CDKeyPrices.com you can search for your favorite game or software and compare their prices directly on our website. Just use the search box on the right!

Thanks for reading! Have fun playing games or whatever you’re doing today.

We’re proud to introduce CDKeyPrices a site which has been running for around 5 months now. It is a price comparison website which lists several of the cd-key sites (like G2Play, OnlineKeyStore and others).

We believe a lot of you will find it extremely useful!

The website is here and you can discuss this website on our forum (or even suggest changes to the creator – Mark).

Join the forum discussion on this post

Those who bought Red Alert 3 during Steam’s holiday sale are finding themselves with a partially useless game purchased at a fairly low price. Steam users report that the downloaded copies of Red Alert 3 don’t include serial numbers, which the game requires for online play.

A similar issue occurred recently through Steam with the digital sale of Spore. That problem seems to have been resolved, and at least one Red Alert 3 player has been able to rectify the current error, though the solution required the game to be re-downloaded directly from EA (complete with SecuROM DRM).

Still, EA’s eventual intervention in Steam’s Spore issue is a possible sign that these Red Alert 3 owners will get their fix as fast as possible.

Update:

EA today confirmed to Joystiq via Twitter that the issue had been "quickly resolved," further adding that "all is well back in Steam land."

One of our users left a comment in the Steam Alternatives section about this store. We just browsed it and it looks very legit. And this seems like a good alternative to Steam.

Here’s a little more about the store:

Game Key Shop is a company which is specialized in delivering retail CDKeys to PC gamers. Just like you, we didn’t like the high prices retail shops charge. It’s because of this that we decided to start selling CDKeys as cheap as possible whilst staying within legal boundries.

We are not 100% sure if this store is credible so please watch out and we are not responsible if anything bad happens. If you came across this store and you know it’s bad please contact us or leave a comment.

And now the specifics (move your mouse over the images to see the price):

Link: http://www.d2cdkeyshop.com/Steam-Games/

Good prices, eh? :)

Update: our announcement on the group kind of killed their website I guess…lol

NOTE: STEAM UNPOWERED IS NOT CONNECTED IN ANY WAY WITH THIS OR ANY OTHER CDKEY STORE OR DIGITAL STORE, WE ARE JUST PROVIDING THE BEST STEAM ALTERNATIVES FOUND ON THE INTERNET. IF YOU THINK WE ARE ADVERTISING OUR OWN BUSSINESS GO DIE IN HELL AND LEAVE THIS GROUP/WEBSITE.

According to SavyGamer G2Play.net is selling stolen CD-Keys…at least for the game called Blood Bowl.

Another thing about G2Play.net. In the past (like two or a year ago) their prices were really attractive, but since Valve changed the currency for countries around the world G2Play’s prices went up high…I mean it looks like they are trying to rip off some people by setting the price higher than it really is.

I have removed G2Play.net from the alternative shops (approved sellers list) – at least for now.

Edit: CDkey-Game.com was also removed due to this.

Follows these instructions to get yours:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=906418

After you got your key, download Crazy Machines 2 from here:

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_freecrazymachines2_home.html

Information about Crazy Machines 2:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Machines_2

Thanks to Fred for pointing this giveaway out. :)

This is some serious mystery alright, this game is $19.99 in the United States and…29.99€ in European Union (nearly $42)! Boycott FTW. I think they don’t even realize how stupid this looks. They want us to pay double? No thanks, and publishers wonder why is piracy so popular. Of course we do not support piracy of any kind.

And ahh the weekend deal, don’t even bother buying this on Steam for "50% cheaper". You can easily get this game out of the box for less than 30€ or get the cdkey directly from one of the Alternative Shops (this game activates on Steam just fine).

Peace out.