GreenMan Gaming Pre-order

I've pre-ordered a lot of games for Steam, and Guild Wars 2, on green man gaming.

They have good deals. Very good deals. That means every single time a lot of newcomers to green man gaming discover them and go there and panic when they don't have their key days before release, and every single time a thread like this pops up in the fan community.

You will get your key when the game is released. I always got them before. Someone here points out he got it 2 hours after official release, that's the worse delivery from GMG I've ever heard of.

Personally, I've never had a problem.
 
PKLarson said:
Has anyone had past experience with them? Are these claims reliable?
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GMG is very reliable, you'll get the key same time as release most likely. There were some issues where they ran out of keys for CKII I think, but I doubt that will happen with something as high profile as BNW. Even then, it's only a couple hour delay if that happens
 
As long as it's not the same issues as they had with Heroes 6 patches, which was forced to run through they own capsule program instead of Steam, and then they didn't update the patches even months after they were out. But I guess that Civ5, running through Steam, will not have that problem, but I've made myself a promise of never returning to GMG after that, so I've also stayed clear of them in this case.
 
According to their e-mail response, I should be receiving the activation key at 12:22 AM.
 
kaspergm said:
As long as it's not the same issues as they had with Heroes 6 patches, which was forced to run through they own capsule program instead of Steam, and then they didn't update the patches even months after they were out. But I guess that Civ5, running through Steam, will not have that problem, but I've made myself a promise of never returning to GMG after that, so I've also stayed clear of them in this case.
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Civ 5 is Steam only, so GMG just has Steam keys
 
If it is just steam keys then a person should be able to download from steam also?:confused:
 
You still have to get the keys before downloading from Steam and GM hasn't sent them early. That's one of the trade-offs when ordering Steam games from stores other than Steam. You might not get your keys early and have to wait for release. After all, Steam doesn't know you own a game until you input the key.

The main reason I ordered from GM was because I got the 32.5% off discount (10% base, plus 25% for pre-order discount) and had $10 credit so I was able to get the whole expansion for $10 plus change.
 
jaldaen said:
You still have to get the keys before downloading from Steam and GM hasn't sent them early. That's one of the trade-offs when ordering Steam games from stores other than Steam. You might not get your keys early and have to wait for release. After all, Steam doesn't know you own a game until you input the key.

The main reason I ordered from GM was because I got the 35% off discount (10% base, plus 25% for pre-order) and had $10 credit so I was able to get the whole expansion for $10 plus change.
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Yeah I have about the same and don't really care about the keys being early as I am busy tonight on other things until after the download will commence.:king:
 
jaldaen said:
You still have to get the keys before downloading from Steam and GM hasn't sent them early. That's one of the trade-offs when ordering Steam games from stores other than Steam. You might not get your keys early and have to wait for release. After all, Steam doesn't know you own a game until you input the key.

The main reason I ordered from GM was because I got the 35% off discount (10% base, plus 25% for pre-order) and had $10 credit so I was able to get the whole expansion for $10 plus change.
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Actually it's 32,5% (25% discount used on 90% of price)
 
Dig-Doug said:
If it is just steam keys then a person should be able to download from steam also?:confused:
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You can only download it from Steam if it's a Steam key. Getting a Steam key is pretty much like buying a game from Steam, except whichever site you buy from gets the money instead.
 
So I guess pre-ordering from GMG means that you can't pre-load or get your key beforehand so you can activate it on Steam? It's 10 PM EST here and GMG still hasn't e-mailed me the key. If I don't get it by midnight I'm never pre-ordering something from them again since I've had problems pre-ordering other games such as Bioshock Infinite from them.
 
pokeravi said:
So I guess pre-ordering from GMG means that you can't pre-load or get your key beforehand so you can activate it on Steam? It's 10 PM EST here and GMG still hasn't e-mailed me the key. If I don't get it by midnight I'm never pre-ordering something from them again since I've had problems pre-ordering other games such as Bioshock Infinite from them.
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is steam preloading yet for anyone (not counting the few that got it early)?
 
Yeah, I'm rather disappointed in GMG. I was hoping to load my key into Steam before I went to bed tonight so that BNW would be ready for me to play tomorrow, but it looks like that won't happen. Bah!
 
Rub'Rum said:
It's not even one gig. Enjoy paying extra money because you can't wait for a couple of hours. Personally, I'm still confident I'll get the key in time.
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Eh, to each his own. I'd much rather have time than money.
 
Kwami said:
Eh, to each his own. I'd much rather have time than money.
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Can't you just wake up half an hour early, boot your computer tomorrow morning, enter your key, and download when you're at work or something like that? It's just a few theoretical hours (it might land in your email box as I"m typing this who knows).

I wouldn't even be able to play it tonight anyway because I have to go to bed and go to work tomorrow morning.

Anyway, on most modern connections, downloading one gig should take less than like half an hour at worst.
 
Nah, I barely make it to work in the morning as it is. 7am is early and my commute is much too long! A half hour might not seem like much, but it's a fair bit when I only have ~2 hours to play. :(

Anyway, no big deal. I'll know better next time. $5 isn't worth the hassle of ordering from a non-Steam website.
 
Rub'Rum said:
Honestly, I would probably buy from Steam too if I only bought a handful of games every year. But with the amount of games I buy and play, every 5$ counts. Still, who knows, maybe you'll get your key before bed time.
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Well, they've got 6 minutes! I hope they make it!
 
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