Do i understand correctly that every gamer should buy a game activation key. This key is checked by the miner to get acces to the games?
isn't this service subscription based? it is on playkey.net
It is, but you still have to buy games (most of them, especially the new ones) that you want to play.
It depends I guess. It seems that you can play games you bought on Steam. If you bought your games somewhere else, it COULD not work. Not sure.
It would be interesting to know the official statement from Playkey regarding the game licenses and how they will enforce this. Via a key or another way?
I did not find anything related to Steam licenses in the whitepaper. But on TechCrunch I found:
“Users can use their own Steam library with our service, buy the game from Steam directly, or purchase the key and subscription from us.”
I think they will be setting up virtual machines for each user, otherwise the Steam libraries and save games from different people will conflict with each other. The downside is that if the game data is also stored in the virtual disk of the virtual machine that will waste a lot of storage space on duplicate bits. But that too can be solved by configuring the virtual machines with a shared virtual disk for game data and separate virtual disks for user data.
Maybe you should start working at Playkey
If people have the chance to dicide themself where they buy it's the best. So if you have the chance to buy keys directly from Steam this means also you can buy your keys on other sites and register them on steam then? It's much cheaper in the most cases.
Yes, you CAN buy steam keys on other sides. Unfortunately almost all of the steam-key sites do illegal stuff, to get the keys (that's why they can offer them so cheap). I personally wouldn't support that kind of sites, just to save some money.
I was always wondering how can they offer cd keys so cheap and they actually work. Is the game developer in minus if i buy a cheap key form one of those sites?
Yeah basically. Those keys are often stolen or just illegal retrieved not activated promotional keys etc. If you are a gamer and want to support the game companies, you shouldn't use that kind of shops.
I think there are some sites, which I am pretty sure not be illegal but sells for less then steam for example. If you would go like your explaination every market which sells something cheaper then another would be an illegal market maybe lol Of course there are also some black sheeps between those sites, but still. Especially games which are out there for a longer time you can get cheaper on other sites then on steam.
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