Toggle sidebar

Is CDKeys legit?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Plazorn
  • Start date Start date
  • Views Views 20,600
  • Replies Replies 56
Plazorn

Plazorn

<= GBAtemp’s Dragon =>
Member
Level 12
Joined
Jun 8, 2021
Messages
1,017
Reaction score
1,206
Trophies
2
Location
nowhere in particular
XP
3,280
Country
United States
I was looking around, and found an online marketplace called cdkeys.com, selling incredibly discounted PC game keys for Steam, GOG, etc. Have any of you used this site before? Is it legit?
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
Plazorn said:
I was looking around, and found an online marketplace called cdkeys.com, selling incredibly discounted PC game keys for Steam, GOG, etc. Have any of you used this site before? Is it legit?
Click to expand...
yes. however, there are sometimes issues with its payment section. that's where I bought my last year's psn+ code.
 
  • Like
Reactions: bonkmaykr
Upvote 0 Downvote
I don't trust those dodgy marketplace sites selling keys, nearly all of them are just scams imo. You never know where they obtained the keys from, could've been using stolen credit card information. The key may also not work even if you expect it to.
 
Last edited by SylverReZ,
  • Like
  • Haha
Reactions: Francie and bonkmaykr
Upvote 0 Downvote
I got a windows there long ago. It had to be legit because it is a commercial computer, subject to oversight from public entities.

Many years later, I had no problem so far. Key is legit indeed.

I'm not endorsing them by any means, just telling the experience I had.

Edit: Did a quick check here, and it was not CDKeys, it was a service with similar name, sorry, my bad.
 
  • Like
Reactions: E1ite007, Plazorn, impeeza and 2 others
Upvote 0 Downvote
I did one time buy a lot of xbox gamepass subscriptions from them until I realized it was even cheaper to use this one over that. they did refund my money for the accident, and they were pretty quick about it.
Post automatically merged:

btw, I forgot the place, but I managed to get tales of symphonia for $4. my friend @Glyptofane is the one who told me about cdkeys as well as the on sale ToS, so he might be able to shed some light as I think he's been using cdkeys for years. btw, they even remind you if you to renew if you're at the end of your subscription.
 
  • Like
Reactions: SylverReZ
Upvote 0 Downvote
godreborn said:
I did one time buy a lot of xbox gamepass subscriptions from them until I realized it was even cheaper to use this one over that. they did refund my money for the accident, and they were pretty quick about it.
Post automatically merged:

btw, I forgot the place, but I managed to get tales of symphonia for $4. my friend @Glyptofane is the one who told me about cdkeys as well as the on sale ToS, so he might be able to shed some light as I think he's been using cdkeys for years. btw, they even remind you if you to renew if you're at the end of your subscription.
Click to expand...
That's good to know.
 
  • Like
Reactions: godreborn
Upvote 0 Downvote
godreborn said:
yeah, I would think a fishy site would've just told me to fuck off. this was after them giving me the codes too, so I could've used them, I guess, but that wouldn't have been morally right.
Click to expand...
They seem to have very positive reviews on TrustPilot, so it must be legit.
 
  • Like
Reactions: godreborn
Upvote 0 Downvote
it's a good site. I think some people buy in bulk from them. there was a screw up by sony with the free trials of psn+, to where you could get it unlimited times. this isn't about cdkeys, but a friend of mine @atreyu187 , got psn for like 99 years. haha thing that sucks is that you can't go above 3 years iirc, with the series x, and the highest they make for these subscriptions is 3 months as a time, which sucks.
 
  • Like
Reactions: SylverReZ
Upvote 1 Downvote
I've been purchasing from CDkeys for almost about 5 years. I have had no issues with them when it came to obtaining my purchased keys. While yes, it feels sketchy because we don't know where the Keys came from, however, it does not mean that they are stolen (some are for sure). Most of the games they have on sale are games that just had a big sale on Steam, Pre-order keys are super easy to obtain if you also supply a review of said game, and a ton of the others are just snagged during sale or "free key" giveaways via discord, twitter, etc. I only use my paypal mind you, so if anything did happen, I could easily fix it.
 
  • Like
Reactions: peteruk, Plazorn, SylverReZ and 1 other person
Upvote 3 Downvote
my thinking is that you're safe/good, because I know that at least on the series x, downloading emulators and stuff from the store (where they're usually removed within a day) on retail--nothing will happen to you, your system, or account, because you didn't know. ignorance is bliss.

I don't think the keys are stolen, otherwise they would've been shut down long ago.
Post automatically merged:

edit: speaking of which, the series s/x is one of the consoles left that I haven't compiled for. I heard from gamr's discord that it uses a free sdk provided my microsoft along with visual studio. I think that's how you compile something for the series systems. not sure how to get it on the store, but you need to have a dev license, which is like $100. I don't know if that has to be paid every single time the person uploads something, but gamr does get donations. it would be nice if more people cared that devs not only have to develop the stuff, but they have to pay for it too???
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
M4x1mumReZ said:
I don't trust those dodgy marketplace sites selling keys, nearly all of them are just scams imo. You never know where they obtained the keys from, could've been using stolen credit card information. The key may also not work even if you expect it to.
Click to expand...
Never had an issue with CD Keys and they're one of the most trusted key sellers albeit they are gray key sellers (not official).

I've also bought from Kinguin.net, a key of IDM since it was significantly cheaper than from the official website. I don't know why they keep increasing the price, it just makes customers look for cheaper options.

Most who want a cheaper option just use a cracked version, but that annoyingly gets out of date way too quickly so I just bought a key instead since I use IDM pretty much as much as I use Windows.
Post automatically merged:

Hayato213 said:
The issue with buying steam key from like G2A and CD Keys you are not sure where they got these keys from, you would want to stick to an official store for like steam key.
Click to expand...
G2A have reportedly bought and sold stolen keys, have CD Keys done that?
 
  • Like
Reactions: peteruk, godreborn and SylverReZ
Upvote 0 Downvote
They have been around atleast for at least 8 or 9 years iirc (if not more). i remember them giving deals around Black Friday, 12 months of Xbox Live Gold was like 42~$45 which was a steal at the time..
So if they were doing anything scammy, to either consumers or big companies, people would found out about it by now..
 
  • Like
Reactions: Marc_LFD, godreborn and SylverReZ
Upvote 0 Downvote
They're about as legit as any other grey market website. The website itself is a real business that acts a little bit like eBay for game keys. How people got those game keys is questionable at best, however. Never used CDKeys but no worse than others I've used and I've only ever had an issue once with a game on Steam being taken as the person who sold it used a stolen credit card to buy the key. Nothing bad happened to my Steam account, but still annoying.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Guacaholey and SylverReZ
Upvote 0 Downvote

Site & Scene News

Go to forum More news