making new account

[InsectPoison]

Would it be possible to make a new account on steam and buy the game then make an account and refund to get your money back and get the account for free? is this method possible?

[gibson]

yes

[InsectPoison]

yes

Would steam not recognise you have used the key to make an account and refuse the refund?

[[Armag] diarouga]

From what I've heard they don't, and it works.
I've never tried it though.

[EAGLEMUT]

yes

Would steam not recognise you have used the key to make an account and refuse the refund?

Steam definitely wouldn't. You don't use the key for any sort of Steam service, only for Microsoft's ESO service.
In theory, I think they way it should work is Steam tells MS to revoke the account after its key has been refunded. Whether this ever happens or whether MS is even able to revoke accounts, that is another question...

[gibson]

yes

Would steam not recognise you have used the key to make an account and refuse the refund?

nope

[lemmings121]

not the first person with this idea, every other day a guy shows up in reddit telling he got a used cdkey from steam.

please stop doing this..

[EAGLEMUT]

not the first person with this idea, every other day a guy shows up in reddit telling he got a used cdkey from steam.

please stop doing this..

I would estimate 100% of those cases are made of people who already had a used AoE3 cd key in their registry before they bought the game (from a previous purchase or a pirated version), and they don't know it has to be erased manually with a script. I imagine refunded keys simply do not return back to the pool.

[gibson]

yea they just throw out returned keys they dont resell them lol

[lemmings121]

not the first person with this idea, every other day a guy shows up in reddit telling he got a used cdkey from steam.

please stop doing this..

I would estimate 100% of those cases are made of people who already had a used AoE3 cd key in their registry before they bought the game (from a previous purchase or a pirated version), and they don't know it has to be erased manually with a script. I imagine refunded keys simply do not return back to the pool.

that might be the case, was just my guess