If you bought before today, you can still get a key. However, I’ve been forced to stop offering Steam keys for those who buy today and in the future. We’ve been getting hammered by fraudsters who are obviously more experienced at this than I. Shutting it down for now is the only way to avoid thousands of dollars in chargeback fees and lost sales. It’s time to take a breather, because I can’t fight this ‘live’.
The game is, of course, for sale on Steam if you want a Steam copy. Buying from our site will give DRM-free copies as before, but no Steam key.
All the stolen keys are being cancelled, and should be deactivated before they can be sold (or soon after, depending on how fast Valve does it). The funds they were stolen with are being returned to their rightful owners. If you don’t want to get ripped off by fraudsters, be sure to buy direct from Steam.
If you bought direct from us before July 17 and find your key cancelled, it may be due to a separate glitch we had (affecting only a few dozen people). You should be able to get a new key immediately from the Steam key giver, and continue playing where you left off.
HoSpanky wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 18:06:
Lol @ Cutter's new Signature. I cannot wait to see how many things in NMS get named "[color] Florp".
RedEye9 wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 21:27:
Rimworld dev, TynanSylvester, is doing an AMA on Wednesday.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/4thgt4/tynan_here_ill_be_doing_an_ama_on_rgames/
HoSpanky wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 18:06:
Lol @ Cutter's new Signature. I cannot wait to see how many things in NMS get named "[color] Florp".
Darks wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 13:51:(rolling eyes) Typical half-baked Darks foot stomping. For someone that claims to be so 'in the know' when it comes to devs and business, you don't even understand what a chargeback from a CC company entails.
Valve is so supposed to do their due diligence by going in and revoking those keys that have been reported as stolen. This is almost entirely Valve not doing their jobs.
Is anyone really surprised about this? Valve barley does anything but collect money and could give a rats ass about supporting us customers.
RedEye9 wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 14:50:Cmon man. These one man studios are hyper focused on building the game. There is no bandwidth to learn how the entire digital distribution industry works. That is why Steam exists. This guy is a bit naive perhaps but to expect him to have predicted this is a bit much.
Sounds neither elaborate nor rare.
Beamer wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 15:12:ItBurn wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 15:10:Luke wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 14:56:Creston wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 14:47:
Do a good thing, get kicked in the balls for it. The state of the world in 2016. Yay.
The state of the world in 2016
Look out ya window and see pukemon hunters all over the place sad sad sad thats the state of the world 2016
What's bad about pokemon "hunters"? They're doing exercise and getting some vitamin D. The game is very simple, but that doesn't make it a bad thing.
"It's different and not to my tastes and therefore objectively bad!"
I mean, don't get me wrong, a lot of things that are different and not to our tastes are objectively bad, and the Pokemon craze is kind of hysterical given how little content is there and how little there is to do once you've captured something, but the exploratory aspects of capturing something is kind of funny, in a good way.
RedEye9 wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 14:50:
That all sounds like a load of crap.
ItBurn wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 15:10:Luke wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 14:56:Creston wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 14:47:
Do a good thing, get kicked in the balls for it. The state of the world in 2016. Yay.
The state of the world in 2016
Look out ya window and see pukemon hunters all over the place sad sad sad thats the state of the world 2016
What's bad about pokemon "hunters"? They're doing exercise and getting some vitamin D. The game is very simple, but that doesn't make it a bad thing.
Luke wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 14:56:Creston wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 14:47:
Do a good thing, get kicked in the balls for it. The state of the world in 2016. Yay.
The state of the world in 2016
Look out ya window and see pukemon hunters all over the place sad sad sad thats the state of the world 2016
Creston wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 14:47:
Do a good thing, get kicked in the balls for it. The state of the world in 2016. Yay.
Tachikoma wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 14:38:
Well, you can always depend on humanoids to pull off a douchiest possible move in any given situation.
It`s a great shame, especially seeing as Ludeon was very wary about the keys and it was clearly stated in the past that they`re not sure if it will be possible to get them when buying straight from the site (before Steam launch) Seems they went with it and got burned v. badly.
And yeah, this is basically a tiny studio with Tynan at the helm and few helpers onboard. Blaming them for failing to predict any elaborate scam out there is not really commendable.
An all-too-familiar situation involving chargeback fraud has been reported by Ludeon Studios, developers of Rimworld.Sounds neither elaborate nor rare.
Darks wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 13:51:jdreyer wrote on Jul 18, 2016, 13:33:Basically yes, but, Valve is so supposed to do their due diligence by going in and revoking those keys that have been reported as stolen. This is almost entirely Valve not doing their jobs.
I'm not exactly clear what's happening here.
1. A thief steals a credit card number
2. The thief uses that credit card number to buy the game for themselves.
3. They actual CC owner initiates a chargeback for a fraudulent purpose and the thief gets to keep the key?
Do I have that right?
Is anyone really surprised about this? Valve barley does anything but collect money and could give a rats ass about supporting us customers.