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Many of the bundles like Humble Bundle have done so you need to link your steam account to not do this trick of selling the keys. Many others are doing something similar. Also, you don't have to care, just know that is is a scummy thing to do, and own up to you being an asshole for doing it. Don't make excuses and blame the big bad publishers (who do deserve most of the shit they get). If you wanna protest, don't buy their game. Boycott that shit.
See above.
Misspelled but still true. You may disagree, but lets just agree to disagree then.
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Why do you hold all the game companies to such high regard? I doubt there's a single game developer that has gone out of business because of sites like these.
Anyways, I probably wouldn't buy games from sites such as these, but when they sell Windows for 25 bucks that normally costs 130 euros I'll surely use it.
For video games, if a CDKEY (TV in your example) is owned by someone, you can't steal it because it's already redeemed.
And It's not your hard-earned TV getting stolen, it's a game developed by a billion dollar company being bought from a cheaper region (which is sold by the publisher itself for a lower price than another region) and sold to you in a more expensive region for the same price.
Seriously how do you compare these two cases?
I don't hold all the game companies to such a high regard. But its shit like this that is going to lead to less quality games. Why should devs give any fuck's when your just going to buy it from G2A. Big company's like blizzard can eat the losses because of the many who don't buy from G2A. But smaller company's (mainly indies) can't eat those losses.
I rather see more games then less.
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When its bought with a stolen CC its stolen....even if you resell it its still stolen.
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Few reasons for this.
#1 Because the $£€60 or whatever price tag they have for the game is something they hope is ingrained in your mind. It takes a lot of social engineering to get people to buy games for $£€60. Now with sites like G2A and Kinguin, you don't have to pay full price.
#2 A pirate is still a potential customer. It's well known for some time that people like to pirate to try before they buy, but when they buy they pay the full $£€60. It's like buying a used game, where the devs don't actually make any money off the purchase. Also Denuvo is making it nearly impossible to pirate anyway, and devs know this.
#3 They also don't want people find out that this is totally legal. All G2A/Kinguin are doing are selling keys from different countries. This is the reason why consoles are region locked, because they don't want you buying cheaper games from other countries to play them. PCs are not, and customers do have the legal right to purchase games from other countries.
You could also just wait for the games to get on sale. And I don't know about you, but I can buy most stuff for less than 60£ by buying a physical copy in a local store, or order a physical copy online. Also, it is a current grey-zone of the law. Think of it like the CS-GO lotto thing, not exactly illegal by law, but only because the law is just too damn slow to adapt to the digital era. This is one of the reasons why a site like E-bay does not deal in digital goods.
Buying is. Not caring is just indifference. Think of it if you "care about kids starving in Africa". Most people don't actually give a fuck, but at least pretend they do when asked of the moral dilemma if they SHOULD support them or not.
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Finally, you're getting it. Soon you'll learn the art of DDoS game servers cause you got banned from them. But to finally be a master, you must learn to troll properly. Go on forums and post about how much a game sucks, and don't forget to play a game like this.
I practically buy all my games there and never had any problem with it.
I would have bought Legion there, too, but it wasn't really cheaper or had strings attached (you get the key when the expansion starts, which means you could not play DH for example before, or the deal would not have included the 100 boost).
Still you're assuming that majority of games sold on these websites are bought with stolen credit cards.
Let go of this this mindset and then you might be able to understand how some products can be sold for a lower price than their retail price of your region without being bought by a stolen credit card.
Never said the majority was, so once again don't put words in my mouth. But G2A allows the sells of stolen goods and does nothing about it. They profit from stolen goods and because of where they are located they give no fucks.
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I do love how the only deference you have for your argument is to try and insult me and repeatedly say I am on a moral crusade.
It isn't a moral crusade, I just rather not see the hobby I enjoy get ruined by idiots like you.
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