Just to be clear: I have been giving out a lot of gift codes myself, all of these are made with legitimate Visa card through PayPal, and I would never sell them for profit (or sell them for anything; they are gifts!).

This incident will make me think twice before posting gift codes in public again, though.

You can view who redeemed the codes in My Account -> My Games -> gifted.

I've never heard of such a thing but I'll take that at your word, it's weird how Steam and EA store are allowed to do that, though.

It's a Polish service from what I gathered by a quick see-through.

Where do you buy your games from?

All games codes/keys are picked up through major distributors from their original retail boxes and scanned up into our database. We test all games before selling so we inform you about available languages, regional limitations (if any) and any other necessary instructions whenever needed.

And they are from Singapore

It''s in the Steam Eula or something like that. You're not allowed to sell games 'digitally' without the accompanying physical media. (and once locked to an account not at all, all you have the right to sell then is the physical media)

It's something to that extent.

For that reason, selling 'cd-keys' from physical copies is not allowed/supported. Only 'authorized resellers' are supported. (Gamersgate/D2D etc)

It's probably the way they try to limit the regional pricing to get the better of them, but either way, it's in it's strictest sense, not allowed, and they 'could', and *have* revoked keys at some point I believe.

OMG

Steam or Gamersgate has THEIR OWN AGREEMENTS with developers.

G2Play has not. And you can't sell the code from retail copy only, it's even mostly told on the box "Not for sale separately"

You can do that as an individual, but not as a company. This is the reason why games there are so cheap. And more, when there's no activation limit or it's for more than one computer, you may never know if they sell the same code to five different person.

Zavvi, GOG, Steam, VGP and a lot of other random online retailers, why?

Could it be possible that these keycodes are from bundled versions of The Witcher?

I recall people selling Steam codes for Total War 2 Shogun and Just Cause 2 on eBay - they had NVidia branding on the cards, so they were supposed to be included with video cards.

(I'm not defending the guy, I'm just guessing here.)

The guy's probably just worked out the key behind the guest codes for The Witcher 2 and written a random key generator for them. It's not all that hard to do unfortunately.

Lol, that was the part of FAQ on the website.