Posted March 12, 2012
Warning to those trading for IGN game keys
posted by James Boxers @ 11:18AM on March 12, 2012
IGN has been giving free games out for their prime members for a few months, this is nothing new. Before the started the new Indie giveaway where they gave out 5 indie game keys, IGN removed one loop in the system and completely removed the trials, I assume any future trials will be my unique promotion codes.
Anyways, people have resorted to finding new ways to make several accounts to get several keys, for free, again. They've exploited IGN, but in a much worse way which can risk your account or others if you trade these keys.
In short terms, people are using credit card fraud to get game keys, I'm sure a few of you are aware of the pains that come from chargebacks.
IGN has a poor system that instead of checking funds from an account and confirming the payment first, it directly gives prime membership when a valid credit card is supplied, funded or not. People have used this exploit to obtain several keys, some in small amounts, and some in ridiculous masses.
I suggest if you really want these keys, buy the IGN prime yourself for the year, it's only 30 dollars by promotion. IGN also discourages trading these keys, but I don't know of any way they'll enforce that suggestion.
If you accept a key obtained by means of fraud, it can be a small dent or a large damage on your account. In the lowest form, they'll either ignore it or just remove the game. Or in worst case scenario, completely ban your account, that means you lose all your licenses, your in-game items linked to your steam account, and any other spent money. And trust me, they won't do a thing for you to bring your account back, Valve believes all their bans of this manner are just and irreversible.
If someone has a very large amount of keys from IGN, it's highly advised you don't trade with this person. Also don't forget the rule of thumb. If it's too good to be true, it probably is. If someone is going to trade you all the keys for a TF2 hat or Plants vs. Zombies, something is up.
I know this has gone long enough, but because I won't be available later, I wanted to throughly explain the situation around these keys and not cut corners. I hope this has been informative and please advise your fellow traders if they do not know. Leave any comments on what you think about this below if you wish.
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posted by James Boxers @ 11:18AM on March 12, 2012
IGN has been giving free games out for their prime members for a few months, this is nothing new. Before the started the new Indie giveaway where they gave out 5 indie game keys, IGN removed one loop in the system and completely removed the trials, I assume any future trials will be my unique promotion codes.
Anyways, people have resorted to finding new ways to make several accounts to get several keys, for free, again. They've exploited IGN, but in a much worse way which can risk your account or others if you trade these keys.
In short terms, people are using credit card fraud to get game keys, I'm sure a few of you are aware of the pains that come from chargebacks.
IGN has a poor system that instead of checking funds from an account and confirming the payment first, it directly gives prime membership when a valid credit card is supplied, funded or not. People have used this exploit to obtain several keys, some in small amounts, and some in ridiculous masses.
I suggest if you really want these keys, buy the IGN prime yourself for the year, it's only 30 dollars by promotion. IGN also discourages trading these keys, but I don't know of any way they'll enforce that suggestion.
If you accept a key obtained by means of fraud, it can be a small dent or a large damage on your account. In the lowest form, they'll either ignore it or just remove the game. Or in worst case scenario, completely ban your account, that means you lose all your licenses, your in-game items linked to your steam account, and any other spent money. And trust me, they won't do a thing for you to bring your account back, Valve believes all their bans of this manner are just and irreversible.
If someone has a very large amount of keys from IGN, it's highly advised you don't trade with this person. Also don't forget the rule of thumb. If it's too good to be true, it probably is. If someone is going to trade you all the keys for a TF2 hat or Plants vs. Zombies, something is up.
I know this has gone long enough, but because I won't be available later, I wanted to throughly explain the situation around these keys and not cut corners. I hope this has been informative and please advise your fellow traders if they do not know. Leave any comments on what you think about this below if you wish.
Source: link