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Can you get banned from buying games from CdKeys
shanls96
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I’ve just saw a tweet that says if you purchase through CDkEys you may get banned..
As far as I was aware, it was perfectly safe to buy through them as they are legit. Am I missing something?
As far as I was aware, it was perfectly safe to buy through them as they are legit. Am I missing something?
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They are not legit legit. They are a 3rd party. Not one allowed by EA. That said how they get their codes is not clear if legal or illegal. Some have said they’re account got banned for buying codes, but others buy and haven’t gotten banned. So there’s a chance you can get banned.
So the sites themselves may, or may not be illegal but it's possible that the people that they get their keys from are. And if this happens then those cdkeys will be flagged and often can't be used and if you purchased one you could get banned, it depends on what the publisher wants to do... From what I heard they are losing a lot of money on stolen keys (if you assume that the people who bought them would have bought them legally).
Other sites also purchase keys from other countries cheaper, which is also a grey area of what is allowed and not allowed because of trade laws.
Can you link the tweet?
But, "in jeopardy" could mean something other than 'get you banned'. Maybe someone should ask the powers that be in EA directly.
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One of the comments specifically states that someone from EA said that CD Keys is okay to use.
Also this one:
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I literally only bought from CDKeys because I saw a post from a sim guru saying it’s okay to buy from them
However, this information seems to contradict this:
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/where-to-buy-ea-games-v2/
CD Keys is not an authorized reseller.
At worst, though, banning appears unlikely. If stolen, EA states:
Additionally, any illegally obtained games and Product Codes will be disabled by us, and access to the product will be lost.
But, as SimplyJen mentions, accounts can be banned for violating Terms of Service, including unlawful behavior.
yet some of the comments kinda have me 50/50 towards what is actually allowed
Have people confirmed that they have actually gotten banned? What most publishers do with stolen keys are that they treat them as stolen (which means that they can't resell them) and then they often work anyway unless the publisher decides to revoke those keys so you lose whatever you bought and they may ban the user as well but I'm not sure, that sounds pretty harsh.
I guess you have to check around and see if enough people trust CDKeys.
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It's common on sites like CDKeys & G2A someone buys a bunch of keys in bulk with a stolen credit card and then sells those keys to the site. Eventually (even years later) a chargeback can happen which means EA can and will swoop in to void those codes. The account they are added to can become locked for violating TOS. So when you use these unauthorized sellers, be aware this can happen at any time and you are risking your account. These codes won't be voided immediately if they are fraudulent but it's also possible they are 100% legit... there's no way to tell. Just as an example, this happened to quite a few Sims 3 users a couple of years ago. Most of them purchased from eBay, G2A, but there were a few who used CDKeys.
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People have been debating this for literal years and I still don't know the real truth 😂
Like I said before: Maybe someone should ask the powers that be in EA directly about CDKeys.
How do we get an answer from someone in EA on whether we can or cannot buy keys from CDKeys. I may have to replace a lot of the packs and it would cost less to use CDKeys.
Would an admin here be able to get us a definitive answer? How do we get one of the admins to see we are asking about this?
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I have to replace almost all of my TS3 packs, etc. due to a very stupid husband.
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What do you mean? digital packs or disc packs for S3? I have both and currently can only play my disc version of the game due to issues with the digital game version but if you have paid out once for either version you should not need to pay for it again?
I have / or had all the disks, and they are not all registered, and my husband threw them out instead of packing them when we moved, so I do not have any of the codes from the packages, so I am out of luck, and do have to purchase them all over again.
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Oh heck i would be extremely annoyed as well that's quite an expense. I bought most of S3 on digital then when I realised they were taking the game from being able to play offline so I purchased a pre 2012 base game disc and bought the rest of the discs I had not already bought little by little so now I have the full set again and can play offline but it still cost me almost the price of 2 separate series so i feel your pain..
Although I rarely find EA games elsewhere for much cheaper? I have more luck with Steam games.
Oh that hurts me like a punch to the stomach just hearing that! My condolences....