Are you sure about that? Because that’s not my experience. If you’re buying for a friend it asks you for their account and adds it to their library directly. I’m pretty sure the behaviour you describe was phased out a long time ago. Granted, there’s a possibility this is regional.
Looks like they did update that, which is definitely a step in the right direction. I had an option to email a key about a month ago buying from the website, so I’m not sure if it was a gradual roll out or if it’s different depending on account or connection type.
It doesn’t seem like it can be a universal thing, since the article says the way this happened was a regional pricing error that resellers took advantage of and bought a lot of keys to resell at the incorrect price.
Honestly they should get rid of keys altogether and just make it so if a dev wants to give a copy away they need to manually select the account in the same way.
Are you sure about that? Because that’s not my experience. If you’re buying for a friend it asks you for their account and adds it to their library directly. I’m pretty sure the behaviour you describe was phased out a long time ago. Granted, there’s a possibility this is regional.
Looks like they did update that, which is definitely a step in the right direction. I had an option to email a key about a month ago buying from the website, so I’m not sure if it was a gradual roll out or if it’s different depending on account or connection type.
It doesn’t seem like it can be a universal thing, since the article says the way this happened was a regional pricing error that resellers took advantage of and bought a lot of keys to resell at the incorrect price.
Honestly they should get rid of keys altogether and just make it so if a dev wants to give a copy away they need to manually select the account in the same way.