About Key Revocation

Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024
Wanderer of Teandria Game Banner
Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie
Developer: Silentplaygames
Release Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017
Hello Wanderers!

Recently i've got few messages from people who they say bought the game on Groupees website in December of 2015 and haven't activated their keys yet. It was in March of 2019.
They stated that when they finally got to activate the game on Steam - their key was revoked. But why? Let me explain.

There are so called gray markets in the Internet like G2A. They often sell games cheaper than Steam. So what's the catch? Catch is that these keys are not legal and may be revoked at any time! In my case it was the fact that i don't cooperate with all of these sites (except Groupees).
Someone just bought the keys on cheaper price and reselled it. Which is, of course, against the rules!
Sadly I did not immediately notice the suspicious activity in Wanderer of Teandria keys activation and there were some keys that were activated illegally.
So i decided to revoke all of the UNUSED keys of the game for several reasons:

- All who bought the game on Groupees should've activate it from 2016
- I have no other instrument except key revocation to prevent resells of my work
- I've revoked only unused keys (not in the player's library) so all who played the game/gained achievement etc was not affected
- I can't divide keys which were bought fair or not

I am very sad about the fact that i had to do that and that i didn't make the announcement erlier but i guess it's better sooner or later.
I've replied all of the customers via support email and hope that you understand my situation.

Take care, Silentplaygames.




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