Crimsonclaw111
Member
So, can I get my legit copy from Amazon or..?
Gears of War 4 coming free with Nvidia 1070 & 1080s through Oct 30
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So, can I get my legit copy from Amazon or..?
toastyToast
Member
Had the copy I redeemeed revoked as well. Honestly haven't seen something like this occur before. The second hand key market is something that has and will continue to exist. Going to be slightly more skeptical now though. The initial flood of keys should have set us off tbh
Well, I can bite $7 but will contact PayPal to get a refund happening.
Yea, mine was actually preloading. It still said owned in the store, but then I checked again about 20 minutes ago and it had a buy button, so I paused the preload and when I clicked play inside the W10 Xbox app it said "You received a refund for Gears of War 4 and it has been removed from your library", a couple of my friends lost theirs earlier so it appears the revokations are happening in waves.
Oh well, knew this was a possibility. I got it via the glitch on my own so no loss thankfully.
Good luck to those of you fighting for refunds.
toastyToast
Member
There are legit keys out there. All of them should be as of now.
chargeback isn't worth the paypal ban. Refund? Only if you paid for goods.
everyones was this guy, he sold ~3hr before the glitch became common knowledge
Ok. Dude told me to pay family and friends... If I had known about this whole amazon key thing, I definitely won't have bought it.
enoirmeplz
Member
Yeah you should. If you really feel like he was threatening you, you should report imo.
Lockjaw333
Member
Strange, the game shows that I own in in "my library" in the windows store app. However if I go to the Gears 4 store page, it doesnt say owned, it says preorder and gives a price of $59.99. The game also doesn't show in my games in the Xbox app.
I went ahead and went through the process to preorder the game on the store, and it let me go all the way to the confirm payment step. I'm assuming that means its been revoked. Strange that it still shows in my library on the windows store app, but could just not have been updated yet. When I try to download, it fails at the "verifying license" step every time.
The gaffer I bought from said its a legit key and seems confused as to why it happened.
I went ahead and went through the process to preorder the game on the store, and it let me go all the way to the confirm payment step. I'm assuming that means its been revoked. Strange that it still shows in my library on the windows store app, but could just not have been updated yet. When I try to download, it fails at the "verifying license" step every time.
The gaffer I bought from said its a legit key and seems confused as to why it happened.
Same here. What a mess. Although I haven't gotten past the nvidia part yet.
mdsfx
Member
when i go to the microsoft store website it still says "you own this" for the gears of war 4 preorder
are other people not seeing that same message?
are other people not seeing that same message?
itsmedave
Member
I did, but as of 5 minutes ago i no longer do
I paid for this with with no knowledge it was not legit. Gets revoked and cant get ahold of seller. I am part of a community of facebook, a few of us whos keys got revoked found out they were all from the same seller - the seller is not responding to any of us. This is terrible and leaves a bad taste in my mouth regardless of who is to blame. Ill buy it used.
Wait so after the full refund, on my eBay page now the item is marked as "unpaid item". When I click the options thing and hit "return this item", it gives me a message to contact the seller to do that.
Do I need to do anything else on eBay for this "unpaid item"?
Do I need to do anything else on eBay for this "unpaid item"?
I had no knowledge either. Sucks, but I should have known better than to think I could get this game for $7...
The Dear Leader
Banned
Thank God I convinced Amazon to give me a $60 Amazon credit to buy Gears of War 4 instead of an actual NVIDIA code, no chance of my legit key getting revoked accidentally now.
They're going to side with him unless you paid for a good.
I sent my payment as gift ;__;
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I knew something was up when I posted in that reddit thread and the guy just PMd me a code without me even paying him lol.
I don't really have enough interest in this game to be mad about it and i'm out zero dollars so whatever.
I don't really have enough interest in this game to be mad about it and i'm out zero dollars so whatever.
Arby 'n' the Chief
Member
I feel the same way. I bought it the day before I heard about the amazon glitch and hoped my code was the real deal. It's terrible how people are getting scammed like this.
fwiw it's mildly unprecedented in this sense-
see: steam revokes that got such high amounts of backlash they were honored.
toastyToast
Member
Some people were had for around the usual legit key prices $25-40. 5 bucks isn't much of a loss
Barrow Roll
Member
Thank you for sharing this, I also bought a code from that seller so it's good to know that others had success getting a refund.
Can you check your eBay and what does the item appear as, unpaid or cancelled?
Mine appears as "unpaid item" after a full refund, wondering what I have to do next.
itsmedave
Member
shanafan
Member
How $70?
mdsfx
Member
Hmmm, I asked him to check again to make sure it's cancelled on his side as well because it still appears as unpaid. I will call eBay up tomorrow if it doesn't change I guess.
Mine got revoked. I bought mine for $34 the day after the promo was announced before all of the Amazon nonsense happened. There was no indication there was anything other than what typically happens for these when legit owners bought cards and sold them off. I really hope I can just get a refund. This really is the sort of thing where revoking them is the wrong approach. If Amazon screwed up and gave out codes without purchases, they should shut the promo down until they fix it and take the loss on the ones already out there, because it was their mistake. If they burned through their allotment of codes from Nvidia because of their goof, too bad.
I bought 2 keys at $35 each when they weren't clearly dupes
I have confirmation that mine has been revoked. It's a mess indeed, I'm going to PM the gaffer who provided me with the illegitimate key for a mere $45 USD, and see if we can come to some sort of agreement.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Terrible way of handling this situation. I suspect most code redeemers purchased it via someone who obtained the keys illegitimately. Now buyers are out of pocket. I bet sellers have no repercussions.
"What did you expect when paying $35? etc etc"
Whatever.
deadscreensky
Member
It is a crazy situation, and this was probably a bad approach for MS to take, but let's keep in mind the real problem here are the thieves who stole all these codes and then sold them to the unknowing rest of us. I see too many people complaining about MS/Amazon/Nvidia and not enough criticism of the real assholes here.
(And for the record I paid $35 for my copy, which seemed like a legit price for a legit good, and this was before the Amazon glitch was public knowledge. People who paid freaking $7 obviously knew something was up.)
Microsoft should definitely be communicating this clearly to the victims, though. There's zero excuse for not doing that.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Revoking just makes people angry at you and not want to spend additional money on your product after getting scammed. Backlash incoming
The issue is nvidia isn't eating the hit for customers and the average customer can't tell the difference between the $20-35 keys and the $7 keys.
I saw keys for $30, then $20. Assumed $20 was just a great deal, got it. Saw $7, realized something has to be up, but was too late for my key by then, asked if it was error key, got a refund from him at request as a result.
That's not really the point though. MS/Amazon/NVIDIA isn't eating the cost, nor are the scammers- they've made hundreds, instead of amazon or whomever going after them off their associated info on the cancelled charges. The random consumer thinking they got a good deal of $30ish off is eating this if they didn't buy it on ebay, and that's not really right.
I promise they would have lost more money by us not buying their game at all vs half of us buying it on sale.
wut...seriously how could this work
chixdiggit
Member
Why on Earth would you think this way? If someone stole your bike and sold it to your neighbor, do you just let the neighbor keep the bike because he paid for it?