purchase on fanatical store

[omega2300]

Hello,
Last month, I purchase "first colony edition" of surviving mars on fanatical store. Their offer is lower price than the 10% of your special price.
Am I going to have skinned dome set and soudtrack?
Thanks.

 

[EntilZha]

Sounds like grey market purchasing...you may be lucky if you have a game.

 

[omega2300]

On the Fanatical website it says: "All our Steam keys are sourced direct from the game's official publisher.". On the site trustpilot, they have a score of 9.5 / 10 with more than 31000 votes. Fanatical website exists since 2012. Focus Multimedia Ltd which owns Fanatical exists since the 90s and they have always sold video games. If they were selling pirated versions, it would have been a long time since they'd ended up with a lot of lawsuits.

I have no doubt that I will have the game. On the other hand it is possible that I do not have pre-purchase objects since the keys may not be available before the official release date of the game. It's going to depend on what the key I'm going to get will unlock in Steam. And the key is created by Paradox Interactive.

 

[Skirlasvoud]

You don’t ask the manufacturer about a purchase, you ask your distributor.

If you want to go third party, that’s fine, but I think it’s more appropriate to ask Fanatical what you’re going to get. Paradox isn’t going to keep track of where all their keys go and won’t be responsible for your purchase if you put a middle man in between.

If you want certainty, go official. If not, ask your middle man.

 

[Sanny]

I would like to know if this site is legitimate so I can add to the official Approved Re-Sellers list.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/approved-re-sellers.1036933/

Update: It appears this is the old Bundle Stars rebranded to Fanatical. This is an official reseller.