You will still have paid money however, and you will not get this money back.
The most common outcome of buying keys like this is that after a few days the game will be removed from your Steam account due to the payment never going through.
There is a large so called “grey market” which has made it a business to obtain Steam keys through illegal means (false credit card information usually) that they sell under market price. We recommend that you purchase keys from ParadoxPlaza, Steam or any other major retailers. However, in the most cases, the a cheaper retailer is usually not legit or have got keys to our games in an unauthorized way. Capital ships being destroyed in like 2 second intervals. I am having issues with it though.No matter what I do, when I have my first encounter with the opposing faction (regardless who they are) I get absolutely steam rolled.
I just installed the mod for Rebellion, Sins of a Galactic Empire. This is not an option we can offer due to issues with Grey Market and not approved retailers that are likely to scam customers. Sins of a Galactic Empire Mod - Difficulty issue.Will the game have the option to pre-load it before release?.I read about it in their faq at the Stellaris forums.
