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Overfall has been removed from some Steam libraries due to alleged scamAlthough some of those affected bought it legitimately
Although some of those affected bought it legitimately
Earlier today,some players signed into Steamand were faced with a message stating that, “A Steam Product code you activated has been removed from your account,” and identifying the product asOverfall. The people in that thread mostly say they purchased the game via a bundle on digital game storefrontFanaticalin 2018.
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In response to understandable frustration from players, Overfall’s developers Pera Games posted a brief response onthe game’s Steam forum. In the post, they allege that years ago they made a deal with a “publisher” (scare quotes theirs) and handed over 30,000 Steam keys. The publisher never returned any payment for the keys, which then started “being sold on other fraud sites. This is why we had to revoke them without knowing where those keys have been sold.”
They state in that post that Fanatical is not who scammed them, nor one of the fraud sites. The post initially ended with a brief, “We’re very well aware that you’re aggrieved. Take care all.”
Two later updates to the post add further clarification about the involvement of Fanatical, underlining that the developers “never blamed” the online store and “never will.” What they seem to be alleging happened is that the developers handed over 30,000 keys to someone, didn’t receive any payment in return, and then the keys ended up being sold on different websites - some grey market, and some legitimate like Fanatical. Without being able to tell what keys ended up where, they’ve revoked all the keys.
To attempt to rectify the situation, the developers say they have provided Fanatical “all the keys that got revoked from their bundles, and they’ll make sure you’ll receive them in the near future.” They add that they’re “genuinely very sorry to have this happen to you guys and wanted to fix it as soon as possible.”
It’s unusual in this instance that it’s happening years after the fact, and that some of those keys ended up on a legitimate Steam key seller. Revoking the keys has hurt players who had a reasonable expectation that they owned the game fair and square - although it’s a reminder that we only license the games in our Steam library, and they can disappear without warning.
