Murky world of PC game key reselling exposed by indie developer

[Super Kami Dende]

Not really but I guess reading is hard for some.

G2A supports illegal activity and handwaves it.

Which has anything to do with people bitching about Ubisoft/EA/Activision how? You are literally saying "YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT X IRRELEVANT THING BECAUSE Y REASON!!!"

[Jtbrig7390]

Either the developers need to slow down putting out so many good games or they will need to lower the prices if they expect people to buy 4 games a month for 699$.

So because you can't afford the game its ok to steal it.....

[Super Kami Dende]

Buy from Steam (Where the Developer gets a cut) or buy from G2A (Where developers don't get shit)

You are ignoring that little bit of info.

I'm not ignoring it, I simply don't care.

[ParanoiD84]

So because you can't afford the game its ok to steal it.....

Tell me how many people can afford to buy 4 games a month at 699$?

[Jtbrig7390]

Which has anything to do with people bitching about Ubisoft/EA/Activision how? You are literally saying "YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT X IRRELEVANT THING BECAUSE Y REASON!!!"

Because its the same people.

They support G2A when infact they are worse then those 3 company's.

[Raiju]

Its up to the vendors to make there shit secure. Not G2A. The fuck?

Have you ever dealt with chargeback claims? Evidently not.

It's a marketplaces business to make their marketplace secure and discourage illegal activity. Amazon has had authorities breathing down their necks for much less, I'll point out.

[Paula Deen]

Entitled much.

You can't catch me buying a game like, Battlefield 1 or Battlefront for full price. 4 Maps at launch for each. For 60 Dollars. About 2 Hours worth of content outside a "Singleplayer."

Meanwhile 8 years ago Call of Duty 4 launched with nearly double that in maps for 60 Dollars. Its not about entitlement. Its about developers and publishers being more greedy than a god damn goblin.

[Jtbrig7390]

Tell me how many people can afforet to buy 4 games a month at 699$?

Not many.

How many people can afford 5 cars a month, Maybe you should go steal those as well.

[gegalfo]

Buy from Steam (Where the Developer gets a cut) or buy from G2A (Where developers don't get shit)

You are ignoring that little bit of info.

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Its there fucken site.

I can go make a G2A seller account right now on there. It takes 2 mins and they do NO background checks.

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So you want the developers to sell there game cheaper then a site that sells stolen keys of there game.

What fucken sense does that make.

developers get money from g2a purchases too, except in the case of stolen keys in any which way

[Super Kami Dende]

Because its the same people.

They support G2A when infact they are worse then those 3 company's.

Once again "THESE PEOPLE ARE BAD BECAUSE THEY DID X ACTION WHICH IS EQUAL TO IRRELEVANT Y SITUATION!!"

[Zogarth]

The food industry should be patrolled for illegal books because a crackhead used the library down the street? Gotcha.

The food industry should be patrolled for infected meat that they buy off some shady guy in a street corner and then resell in their shops openly.

[Jtbrig7390]

You can't catch me buying a game like, Battlefield 1 or Battlefront for full price. 4 Maps at launch for each. For 60 Dollars. About 2 Hours worth of content outside a "Singleplayer."

Meanwhile 4 years ago Call of Duty 4 launched with nearly double that in maps for 60 Dollars. Its not about entitlement. Its about developers and publishers being more greedy than a god damn goblin.

Right they are being greedy and stealing from them makes you just as bad. More people doing it more costly games will be.

Do what I do and wait for the bundle that has all the content.

[ParanoiD84]

Not many.

How many people can afford 5 cars a month, Maybe you should go steal those as well.

Quite a difference there, you only need one car, while with games you are done with most in 10 hours or so.

[Super Kami Dende]

Not many.

How many people can afford 5 cars a month, Maybe you should go steal those as well.

Pro-tip: Car Resellers exist.

[Jtbrig7390]

developers get money from g2a purchases too, except in the case of stolen keys in any which way

No they don't. G2A does NOT give any sells to Developers. There is not one seller that has made G2A a authorized seller whoever told u they do is lying.

[Paula Deen]

Right they are being greedy and stealing from them makes you just as bad. More people doing it more costly games will be.

Do what I do and wait for the bundle that has all the content.

Or how about I don't and do as I do. If you hurt them enough they eventually learn. Instead of submitting to there bullshit and teaching them you will eventually give them money anyway.

[unholytestament]

Buying from G2A is equal to pirating a game. As a matter of fact its worse because there was a sell of a game then a charge back happen. At lease with pirating you can't prove the pirate was going to buy the game in the first place.

Devs make ZERO from G2A.

Prove to me right now that all of the keys on G2A are stolen.

That is the claim you are making.

Prove it.

[gegalfo]

Buying from G2A is equal to pirating a game. As a matter of fact its worse because there was a sell of a game then a charge back happen. At lease with pirating you can't prove the pirate was going to buy the game in the first place.

Devs make ZERO from G2A.

but they do, the games are bought in cheaper regions and then sold through g2a, are you saying devs dont make anything by selling in cheaper regions either?

[Jtbrig7390]

Pro-tip: Car Resellers exist.

Yep and in order to resell a car it must be bought new first. You don't go to ford buy a car and then issue a charge back and keep the car. People buy keys from X site post on G2A and issue charge backs.

Its the charge back part you are forgetting.

[Zogarth]

Pro-tip: Car Resellers exist.

And they have a shitload of responsibility with the car they sell. They can't just buy a car off some random guy. They check licence and registration to see if it is legal, and then resell it. Not something you can compare at all.

Prove to me right now that all of the keys on G2A are stolen.

That is the claim you are making.

Prove it.

Problem is, we don't fucking know if they are. G2A does not know if they are. That is why you have selected dealers of your product. So you know that shit, and not some weird black market where no one really knows where the hell the keys come from. Could be from a legit seller having sold the key to some guy who then decided he did not want the game anyway and resold the key, or it could be from some murdered guys dead corpse taken as he walked out of gamestop. No one knows.