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    A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.

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    #1  Edited By Funzzo

    Steam has run out of CD keys for Fuel. 

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    #2  Edited By bed

    er.. okay o-o

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    #3  Edited By Alexander

    You heard it here first.

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    #4  Edited By ArchScabby

    OH GOD WHAT ARE WE GOING TO  DO??!!?

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    #5  Edited By oldschool
    @ArchScabby said:
    " OH GOD WHAT ARE WE GOING TO  DO??!!? "
    Go to a key cutter and make more?
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    #6  Edited By Dalai

    It's happened before. They buy a bunch in bulk or something. It happened with some game during the holiday sale, can't remember which one though. 
     
    But FUEL? Even I haven't been tempted to buy the racing pack for DiRT cheap.

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    #7  Edited By gunslingerNZ

    I bought Dirt 2 since I didn't really want any of the other games. I'm very surprised to hear Fuel sold out though...

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    #8  Edited By sodiumCyclops
    @gunslingerNZ said:
    " I bought Dirt 2 since I didn't really want any of the other games. I'm very surprised to hear Fuel sold out though... "
    It's not that crazy really. When Steam games are heavily discounted, they sell like hotcakes regardless of quality.
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    #9  Edited By jakob187

    Fuel isn't that good of a game from what I've seen of other people playing it.  I love Codemasters racing games, but even that looks like a very bleck kind of game.

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    #10  Edited By Hot_Karl
    @Dalai said:
    " It's happened before. They buy a bunch in bulk or something. It happened with some game during the holiday sale, can't remember which one though. 
    I remember that. I'm pretty sure that they ran out of keys for Prey or something, and people were making fun saying "HOW DO YOU SELL OUT OF A GAME ON STEAM?"
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    #11  Edited By Milkman

    This is not the first time this has happened on Steam.

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    #12  Edited By rachelepithet

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    #13  Edited By Ferginator4k

    Im not suprised at FUEL selling well, however i am suprised at Steam Selling out of CD keys.

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    #14  Edited By Funzzo

    Fuel might not be the best game but when youbuy a game even if its only 3 or 4 bucks it should work.
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     Keymaker, we need him
     Keymaker, we need him
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    #16  Edited By Funzzo

    Monday night and still no keys.

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    #17  Edited By SSully

    Could have sold out because they had few keys to begin with because of it being a not so good game, and when they put it on sale people just ate up the few keys they had. Not that surprising. If it was a popular game like COD then i would be surprised.

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    #18  Edited By Brians
    @Funzzo: Because they sold out of them happened during Christmas sale where some games were sold out of.
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    #19  Edited By demontium

    o...k..... 

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    #20  Edited By KowalskiManDown

    What idiots actually bought Fuel?!

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    #21  Edited By MikkaQ

    I bought 'em. I mean it was 17-18 bucks. For that many racing games. Yikes.  Still funny how they actually just have keys that run out...

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    #22  Edited By Th3_James
    @creamypies said:
    " What idiots actually bought Fuel?! "
    This.
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    Four bucks. GFWL achievements. Think about it.

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    #24  Edited By Forcen

    They ran out of keys for ut2004 during a sale once, it happens. They received some new keys later though.

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    #25  Edited By KowalskiManDown
    @Keenblaze: It's also a real bad game that is no fun to play.
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    #26  Edited By Gilsham

    Fuel isn't really that bad when I played the demo I didn't like it very much but I've been playing it more than I though I would when I got the pack, I think it might have sold out of keys as it has to be registered with   SecuROM outside of steam so I would assume that they didn't get any more keys from the   SecuROM guys or something

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    #27  Edited By 6ZZA
    @Dalai said:
    " It's happened before. They buy a bunch in bulk or something. It happened with some game during the holiday sale, can't remember which one though.  But FUEL? Even I haven't been tempted to buy the racing pack for DiRT cheap. "
    it was Bioshock that ran out when it was running for 5 bucks.
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    #28  Edited By Riotisonfire

    Yeah this also happened to prey. Another example of how devious steam is and their weekend deals.

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    #29  Edited By joey

    FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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    #30  Edited By darkonex

    I bought the racing pack even though I already have acquired those games by other means because I like having them in steam, it was cheap, and they really are all excellent games with the exception of Fuel. Fuel could have been amazing if they didn't flub up the damage model and sounds but there is still fun to be had. Regardless of how great the game is it's bs that they even put it in the pack if they didn't have keys for it, they should have known this ahead of time.

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