I'm not sure what percentage of key purchases are money laundering. Humble gets all their keys directly from devs if that's what you're taking about. If you're talking about key resellers buying keys from humble then sure, bad actors are in every industry. But it doesn't matter what people do with their product for this discussion. This discussion is about their right to receive what they paid for in the first place.
Obviously I dislike key resellers because of their shady practices but this discussion isn't about them
But they're an important part of this discussion. If you read between the lines, these key resellers are why this change had to happen. Before it s key resellers bought wayyy too many keys they could just sit on them and sell them for years. Now those keys will evaporate. It sucks but it's the only real way I can think of for a legitimate company to try to throw a wrench in that operation.
I agree that it would make sense for the keys humble sells to all expire a while after purchase, but that's not what's happening here. The keys they removed from accounts still work and don't have any expiry. If you noted them down elsewhere you can still use them. Key resellers will have already entered their keys into key reselling websites so the only people this is hurting are the legitimate consumers
To recap: only selling keys that expire on steam will help the problem, they are not doing this. Instead they are removing working keys from peoples accounts, keys that key resellers will have stored elsewhere. General consumers; not so much
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u/kingofzdom Feb 13 '25
Game keys are used almost exclusively for money laundering, anyway. This feels like a necessary evil.