The developer doesn't get any money if you buy through a grey market site, the only people who do are the site and the scammers who get the keys. There's a very interesting video made by an independent dev after he found his game on a key site. Worth seeking out but probably a bit OT for here.
AFAIK CDKeys are one of the better ones, unlike kinguin or G2A and the like all CDKeys keys are legit, its just they are from often different markets and such like.
Well not wanting to get into a discussion on how dark a shade of Grey they are
but anyone who says they use their "extensive network of contacts" to obtain keys doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.Something I always push for is sales on their store and I've never understood why there aren't more. Or sell keys for the non steam version through Green Man Gaming.
The thing is that old players have too many arxs accumulated during the game, and these arxs do not generate income.
Indeed, and that's why I think FDev's strategy is a good one. They milk away the accumulated ARX with things like higher prices and early access new ships, counting on FOMO in people. All the while they build up offerings for new players with the pre-built options, not upsetting the core player-base too much with too obvious P2W. Very well done. I bet there is much more to come.
To lure arcs from older players you need to release a really special ship.
After so many years without new ships, any will do. Besides, P2 is a special ship (SCO stabilized) that also did not upset the balance.
I'm sorry, but I've never understood those words. You fly heavy corbals T10, Cutter in SCO on joystick ?
And FDL is a fine ship too, I even have one FDL and I only use it for one purpose, to bomb Titan, otherwise I have no interest in this ship.
Well not wanting to get into a discussion on how dark a shade of Grey they are
unless CDKeys have been guilty of selling stolen keys then this is not true....
P2 is not only promoted as SCO stabilized, it is also reported from many players to be so. Whether or not it is a huge problem for people to fly any other ship in SCO with a joystick (it sure isn't to me) wasn't the point. The point is that it is a special ship with a special feature, that's what FDev (and other players) is saying. So there you have a special ship not upsetting the balance.
Jumping out of an older ship into a Python Mk.II and using SCO is like night and day. I can fly an older ship and correct for SCO wobble without much effort, but the Python doesn't even twitch, no correction needed at all.
They don't need to be stolen. These sites operate in the grey area of unauthorised copies and like to paint themselves a shiny white shirt. "Authorised vendors", right. If you use fraudulently acquired credit card credentials on "authorised sellers" does this make a copy acquired legit? Why would a publisher authorise the number of duped copies that circulate these markets? They don't earn anything with it, nor do the devs. They just lost control over their product and sales channel.
this is interesting, I didnt realise they handled better.... i thought they just came with a higher grade of SCO, which was now available for all ships but hadnt been before.
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