


To separate the scam curators from the real ones, Breton said he responded to those key requests with keys for the free, limited Prologue version of the game rather than the full release. Those free keys could then be converted into cold hard cash through gray-market code resellers like G2A, thus eating into legitimate sales that profit the developer. While some of those curator pages were no doubt legitimate, Breton suspected many more were scammers using artificially inflated curator pages to get free game keys. Further Reading G2A confirms stolen game key sales, pays $40,000 to Factorio devsIn a Twitter thread posted earlier this week, Brok the Investigator developer Fabrice Breton discussed the flood of free game key requests he got from Steam curators after his game's recent launch.
