Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys

[Nov 15, 2010, 10:41 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Deep Silver Forums have an apology to users inconvenienced when their server ran out of authentication keys for Risen, as Steam's weekend sale for Piranha Bytes' RPG caused demand that outstripped their supply of serial numbers (perhaps due to a let-down by their bit supplier). This thread has the outrage from impacted users, who have been placated to some degree by the promise they will be able to activate their game today. Thanks Destructoid.

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Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys

Nov 15, 2010, 15:45

nullability

I don't think Steam ever generates keys unless they're Valve games. My understanding is that Steam is just given a list of keys by the publisher, and when they run out, they need to get more. The same thing happened with F.E.A.R. and Prey a while ago, too. Apparently they usually have enough that running out of "stock" isn't a big enough concern to add the necessary billing logic.

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Nov 15, 09:48	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	McSterls
	2.	Nov 15, 10:03	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Frijoles
	4.	Nov 15, 11:13	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	necrosis
	5.	Nov 15, 11:13	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Mechanik
	6.	Nov 15, 11:47	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Kxmode
	7.	Nov 15, 11:54	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Zoom
	11.	Nov 15, 12:37	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Techie714 ©
	15.	Nov 15, 13:20	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Mechanik
	16.	Nov 15, 13:51	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Frijoles
	8.	Nov 15, 12:07	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	peonjohn
	9.	Nov 15, 12:14	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	ASeven
	24.	Nov 15, 17:59	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	ASJD
	13.	Nov 15, 13:17	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Verno
	17.	Nov 15, 13:58	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Tumbler
	19.	Nov 15, 15:02	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Kxmode
	22.	Nov 15, 16:25	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Dr. D. Schreber
	23.	Nov 15, 17:23	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Prez
	26.	Nov 15, 18:34	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Dev
	27.	Nov 15, 19:56	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	StaTik
	29.	Nov 16, 06:05	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	cliffski
	25.	Nov 15, 18:05	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	born2expire
	3.	Nov 15, 10:49	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Kxmode
	10.	Nov 15, 12:23	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Tumbler
	12.	Nov 15, 12:55	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	spindoctor
	14.	Nov 15, 13:17	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	J
	18.	Nov 15, 14:23	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Creston
>>	20.	Nov 15, 15:45	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	nullability
	21.	Nov 15, 16:05	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	Dev
	28.	Nov 16, 06:03	Re: Steam Sale Runs out of Risen Keys	cliffski