BreOl72: I have no clue how this works with "normal" Steamkeys.
But I know, that keys from bundles, respectively the site where you bought the bundle, can/will show you who activated them on their account.
So, do you know who activated your key?
Or are you just assuming that someone else activated it?
Which raises the question - why did that unknown person activate only one key and not the other two as well?
When I tried to use my key for the first time, I received the message that the key has already been used, at first I thought this happened by one of those sites where tons of serial keys are filtered (there was a site where you could find hundreds of Keys for Shadow of Chernobyl). Maybe someone used a random key and got lucky.
Yesterday I was about to contact the support to ask about this problem, when I tried to use my key again to get some screenshot to prove my point but the key worked without any problem. I can't explain why or how, but it worked and now I have the game on my library.
HunchBluntley: Like others in the thread have said: OP is not talking about game redemption gift codes to redeem a game on Steam, but rather the actual serial key codes used as a simple DRM measure to authenticate a game already in one's Steam library. And yes, these work for "Reclaim Your Game" for some of the games offered (at least a couple of the
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games).
This confusion is the chief reason that I hate the use of the term
key to refer to gift codes, and why I refuse to use that term in cases where this kind of code is officially referred to as a
code (such as
on GOG).
That is exactly what I was trying to explain. Once you use a key in Steam to activate your game, they give you another key, like the normal CD Serial to use it in case the game request it (usually for multiplayer). I know the 'Steam gift code' is not going to work here (those you can get in sites like G2A or HumbleBundle), but that is not what I was trying to use, I was trying to use the CD Serial they gave me.
