A ton of them apparently come from regional pricing, or from keys purchased by businesses. Windows offers volume licensing where you can buy bulk keys at a steep discount, basically. The business might not use all of them, and then they turn around and resell them. That’s technically against the terms of the license, but afaik Microsoft has never bothered to enforce that.

I’ve also heard people will take the Windows keys off of older OEM towers and resell them. I have no idea how true that is, but it would also be against their terms.

It’s not exactly likely, but Microsoft could probably just deactivate all of those keys at once if they decided to.

Ah, that’s true! Anything with flavor text- red text in the description- is an exception to the normal rarities.

If it ain’t a purple I can basically guarantee it’s shit. Just keep the rarity order in mind, and you can generally assume anything that’s less rare than what you have is also worse. One of the load screens in BL1 or BL2 said When Grandma Burps Patrick Obeys- White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange. Got absolutely burnt into my brain.

But hey, if it’s stressful fair enough. I think they’re fun games, but nothing is for everyone.

It’s not like I need to do the math to figure out which gun is better and why. Find something with green arrows? Hold E to equip it immediately. If I use it for a bit and dislike it I’ll just swap back to what I was using before and mark it as junk so I sell it next time I buy ammo or fill my inventory.

I’m really enjoying it quite a lot- I first played around a20, and then I picked it up again recently.

It isn’t a perfect game, but it’s a pretty decent experience that’s very unique.

I don’t think it’s worth $45. That seems a bit excessive. $20 or maybe even $30? Sure.

With that said, I haven’t followed the game’s development at all really. I could see a bunch of broken promises causing some completely understandable frustration with the devs.