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If you were planning to buy Gears of War 4 on the PC, you may want to stay away from key marketplaces for now as it turns out that copies of the game are being revoked. This has come about after a significant loophole was discovered at some retailers participating in the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 promotion, in which graphics card buyers are given a free code for the game.
Gears of War 4 currently comes as a free download to buyers of the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. However, some retailers like Amazon tend to send out promotional codes immediately after an order is placed, which led to an influx of fake graphics card orders, where people would take the code to sell and then cancel the purchase.
Plenty of NeoGAF users have found their Gears 4 codes revoked after buying from sellers on eBay, so it didn't take long for one of The Coalition's community managers to clear things up, commenting: “We detected some Gears 4 Windows 10 keys were obtained illegitimately via our NVIDIA promotion. We have gone ahead and revoked keys that fell in this bucket. If you believe your key was incorrectly revoked, we highly recommend you contact NVIDIA support with proof of purchase to help out with this”.
So if you're planning on buying Gears of War 4 on PC, you are either going to have to go through official channels or double check that the person you are buying from actually did buy a GTX 1080 or GTX 1070, making the promotional code legitimate.
KitGuru Says: Grey market key sellers often try shady tactics to obtain keys to sell so I'm not surprised to hear that some keys are being revoked. That said, there may be some legitimate graphics card buyers who simply don't want their Gears 4 code, buyers are just going to have to be careful before purchasing, or stick to official stores.
Maybe the codes should in the future be included in the box? You know, as it used to be when you’d buy a 3DFX card or something 😀
That would definitely solve that particular problem 😛 I wonder if there were problems with the old way of doing it though, since they decided not to do it that way anymore.
Well, it’s easier this way, that’s for sure. The old GPUs had special boxes for each game bundle that was produced; nowadays you just make one box and send a digital code. It makes the production process cheaper.
Revoking the keys officially kills the gears PC community… maybe a 20% off coupon for the victims? Cause expecting 65 59 plus tax for a PC game isn’t happening.
I bought the game from ebay thinking it was legit and mine has been revoked…. I wont be buying the game a second time and all I can do is hope for a refund and leave bad feedback.
why? they need to get refunded from ebay or paypal. The coalition or Microsoft have all the reasons to disable those keys and if you are stupid enough to get a key from a shady seller you should deal with it
I see the point and am willing to bet most of the PC keys were bought from these crooks/being revoked. If that is the case then MS should offer something or they will lose many PC gamers who are the victims in this and won’t pay retail(which is 2 high 4 a average rated PC game)