Sure, don't get me wrong, it's awesome that it can be done. I have no idea of course how the details of it works, like I would expect Steam to want a certain fee per key even when purchased on this store.
That is wrong, Steam allows developers to generate keys at their leisure and offer them to customers buying the product via a third party store. And has done so for years.
This used to be a quite painless process, but as everything in the Internet, the age of innocence comes to pass rather quickly.
Eventually some clever people out there figured out that this was a vehicle for money laundering or, wonders of the Internet, money printing. By observing that not all devs offering keys had robust e-commerce interfaces, some criminal groups started buying keys with stolen credit cards, and then re-selling the keys on a
gray market
http://www.polygon.com/2015/2/9/800...ose-mysteriously-cheap-gray-market-game-codes
the link above contains a good walk through this topic. The scam works as follows
1. game is bought directly off the developer with stolen credit card
2. e-commerce application on the developer store processes transaction and
fulfills it immediately, as transaction verification can take weeks
3. steam key is obtained, and sold directly or indirectly to someone else
4. weeks later, transaction is turned back, dev has to pay back money and any charges due to the extra processing
I think people will appreciate immensely that Lock'n'Load takes its time to make sure that they're not going to be f*cked in the ass by some Internet gangsters. The easy thing would be to do as below...
I guess I just can't help thinking they are different stores - it's like if you buy something at Coles you wouldn't expect to just pop over to Safeway and get the same thing for free right
The Internet is a different country, they do things differently there.