How can you possibly still defend them now?
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Grey Market Key Shills COMPLETELY BTFO
Aaaaand why should we care?
All of my G2A games still work... so why should I give any fucks?
Purchasing stolen goods is illegal and fruedulent in most countries. Its only a matter of time before major game publishers take sites like this as well as the retards who buy stolen keys to court
I still don't see how this concerns me
if you buy keys from G2A it should.
Why?
I don't though. I'm not poor.
who?
also I will continue buying from them because good devs don't care
The game gets deactivated and you lose a days worth of income.
they still work after like 3 years passed from activation
> days worth of income
kek'd
Have you seen how cheap games are? Way worth the risk
did you guys not check the dates of those articles? they date back to 2013
made me think these were all recent
i guess you missed the part where its illegal and sometime soon your ass will be in jail for a very long time. Piracy gets you 10 years and it doesnt even actually hurt the company, people who steal keys and sell them are quite literally stealing from these big game publishers. How fucking retarded are you to think they arent going to take G2A to court, get them be forced to hand over all transaction details for the IP addresses, and them sue you for everything you have.
Do you live under a rock?
Buying stolen goods isn't a crime. Ignoring ethical implications, it's less of pain in the ass to just seize the property back, and punish the seller.
good luck getting my ukrainian ass into court for anything "illegal" while we still have stores that openly sell $5 windows dvds and pirated games. if anything I would be praised as a model consumer and a nice guy
they can have my address if they want not only ip. like I said good luck fighting piracy in pirate heaven. oh wait it's not even piracy
>Buying stolen goods isn't a crime.
actually it is if you know the keys were stolen, and now that everyone here knows they are stolen, you have nowhere left to hide
Why are they making such a big deal over this now when Gamestop has been doing the same thing for decades?
I'll never understand why so many retards are willing to become potential scammer enablers instead of just pirating or waiting for sales, but playing the "it's illegal and unethical" card on fucking Sup Forums isn't going to work, my friend.
gamestop doesnt steal keys. They buy them from the publishers.
Sites like G2A use stolen credit cards to buy bulk keys and then resell them before the publisher realizes they keys were bought with stolen money. Not to mention the fact when they owner of the stolen credit card realizes all that stuff was purchased, the publishers actually end up having to pay them back and they wind up with LESS money than they did to begin with
>everyone knows
Lolno
You do, and thats all that matters
How do you know they're stolen? Do they have a little red hand on them in real life like in Oblivion?
>How do you know they're stolen?
are you fucking retarded? look at all the links in the op
how are they gonna prove I was aware
The fuckers got paid fair and square for the keys, the keys got resold by someone the publisher doesn't like, so the publisher stole them back.
Only a complete kochsucker could think that's okay.
Oh, well that sounds super duper illegal. The feds should've shut them down like yesterday.
>The fuckers got paid fair and square for the keys,
hi g2a shill. You arent fooling anyone when the publishers can quite easily prove they were bought with stolen credit cards.
this thread
Because there's no reason you should be paying G2A in the first place when you can pirate. Especially when there's always a chance of your key being deactivated.
Why be a complete retard and defend G2A when you can get fucked over by them?
>this thread
lmao ok buddy
sup
tell me more how you gonna shut me down while I buy more games
Yes, yes, OP. We get it. You have to sell your shitty game and people are wiser.
Too lazy. Is it just cheap=stolen?
>Because there's no reason you should be paying G2A in the first place when you can pirate
Fucking this, really.
If you're going to buy the game don't half-ass it and do grey market stupidity. Just pirate the game if you want to be cheap. Buying grey market makes you cheap and also a fucking halfwit.
oh its not me, its publishers like Bethesda, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, Activision, etc etc.
You know the multi billion dollar corporations that love money and dont like faggot stealing from them? This is not the same as piracy, this is quite literally stealing
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Nobody is gonna bother to shut you down user. All we can do is warn you and if you still choose to act like a fool, we ain't stopping ya. It's your money, do what you want. I don't care.
Just don't come crying back when your keys gets deactivated.
its cute you think that people who bought keys off that site are gonna be threatened with jail time/sued, the keys are just gonna get revoked
>Twitter post from 2014
Yea fuck off. I don't care I've bought probably 10 games from them got my keys no problem.
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse, at least not in the US.
Some of those posts are from 3 years ago, why do you post it as something new?
I'm not going to stop buying them btw.
what about playing online.
>Its only a matter of time before major game publishers take sites like this as well as the retards who buy stolen keys to court
You might actually be retarded if you think they would try to charge anyone who bought a key from g2a or others they wouldn't have a case to stand on, most key sellers are legit businesses and actually charging anyone who bought from them would involve proving that they actually knew that the specific key they bough was stolen.
Its cute that you think they wont be when this happened
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Its only a matter of time before more countries follow suit and they go after stolen keys too. How unbelievably naive and underage do you have to be to not understand how much these companies love money and how much they hate faggots like you stealing from them?
Yeah this, I've never bought from g2a specifically but I've bough from kinguin and others and never had a single problem so why would I stop
>most key sellers are legit businesses
We arent talking about legit key sellers, we are talking about extremely illegelitate key sellers like G2A. Nice moving goal posts.
>unironical anti-piracy threads
>unironical anti-CD Key website threads
Who are you trying to fool exactly, Goldstein?
Quality thread.
>illegelitate
illegitimate
Here we go.
If you're cheap or poor, just pirate.
Would that make ebay illegal as well? Because people have been selling stolen shit on that for ages.
So many of those links are super fucking old. I still have my Far Cry 4 and so does my friend, and we still have Sniper Elite v3
stealing is for niggers and subhumans. Go back to africa, you arent wanted here.
Piracy is not stealing, but buying stolen goods is 100% stealing
No because the people selling the keys still "pay" full price.
They can tell when their games are bought in bulk and then get contacted by the bank of the person who's stolen credit card was used to buy them.
rolling for best girl
t. Schlomo Rosenberg
Thanks to denuvo you can't pirate shit
Welp, let's go.
Imagine a world where every illegal download gets you jail time.
Imagine a prison every corner to hold every citizen.
And finally, imagine just how fucking retard you are for thinking that people go to jail because of a fucking video game they bought from G2A.
I work at a friend's electronic store and I get all the free games I want.
rolling
I'll stop using a CD-key websites when prices start to get competitive. Why would I buy something for double the price of the same product that has no physical value what so ever?
It's true. I bought a stolen wrist watch on Ebay in 2006. I'm typing this from jail right now. Gonna have to go soon, the guy I share a cell with is giving me that look again.
If they can prove that you had atleast a suspicion that you purchased something illegal than yes.
>unironically admitting to purchasing stolen keys
Its like you are just asking them to sue you
Not only that, but because of being in this thread you can no longer use the defense you didnt know they were stolen
And if I pirate i'll get the angry Denuvo shills telling me to pirate.
So what i'm going to do is not listen to any of you since you are just random neckbeards on Sup Forums and as such, I should not pay any attention to anything said here.
I mean legit as in a registered business dumbass you can go on there site and get their business registration number if you want, so even if their products may be stolen anyone visiting their site would have no reason to suspect that they were.
>why do you post it as something new?
One good example would be what happened to Mangagamer earlier this year. People buy a shitload of steam keys directly from Mangagamer with stolen credit cards. One chargeback hits, Mangagamer has to pay back every purchase made with stolen credit card on to of 20 bucks fine for every fraud transaction. Shit like this can cripple smaller game companies. And those with stolen keys most likely sell em at places like G2A for a high discount. That is why places like G2A have keys much cheaper than every single retail and online store. No other way to really get them so cheap.
This is why devs prefer it if people just pirated the game instead of buying from shady third party websites. Especially small companies that can't afford to pay all those fines and fees.
C'mon tomboy
Why not pirate games like a normal person instead of paying people to steal it for you?
cant stop, wont stop
>anyone who isnt pro stealing is a jew
kill yourself
rollin for fatty
If you care that much about online shit, buy the game from an actual accredited source.
For not online shit, fuck this shady shit, just pirate it. It's more honest.
Why would a non-jew care about all this?
>If they can prove that you had atleast a suspicion that you purchased something illegal than yes.
Yeah. But if someone at some point bought something illegal, why would that affect me?
Otherwise it's impossible to know if a game was stolen or not before you buy it.
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>This is why devs prefer it if people just pirated the game instead of buying from shady third party websites. Especially small companies that can't afford to pay all those fines and fees.
I don't really care about what the devs prefer.
It's not my problem.
If you want to remove G2A, remove denuvo
Otherwise we will steal your shit and you will suck our dicks
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>2014
Convenience and online mainly.
>It's more honest.
Who gives a fuck?
>would have no reason to suspect that they were.
the hundreds of articles all over the internet talking about this, especially on reddit, quite literally proves you wrong. MOST people have heard about this by now.
IF you google G2A one of the first links that pops up is "is g2a safe"
Thanks for that. Smaller publishers get completely raped by charge backs with stolen credit cards and all the shills unironically defending it are beyond disgusting.
this
when these poop butt indie devs stop charging 30 dollars for incomplete trash ill start thinking about giving them money
Tomboy roll
I can register like five corporations over the phone in an hour, being a 'registered business' means almost nothing.
Are these keys even really stolen? I thought the gimmick was they buy shit in pesos and resell them to Americans for USD?
Is this another one of those "I'm not making as much money as I SHOULD be making, so you've stolen the profit from from me!!!" anti-consumer things like with "used games are basically piracy" shit?
because of shit like this
are you fucking retarded?
>But if someone at some point bought something illegal, why would that affect me?
Because the key you brought can be revoked and you lose the game you paid for.
> Otherwise it's impossible to know if a game was stolen or not before you buy it.
That's half true. You do know that if you buy from legit stores like Steam.. it's 100% NOT stolen.
On the other hand... if you buy from G2A, you very well know that it COULD be stolen. Maybe, maybe not, but that's your choice to buy from some shady place. So you better not bitch about it if your key gets revoked.
I don't see how that's my problem.
>I don't really care about what the devs prefer.
>It's not my problem.
Then it's not their problem if your key gets revoked.
>So you better not bitch about it if your key gets revoked.
So basically you are all getting mad and shouting at everyone because of the possibility that people COULD get mad?
What's up with this autism?
Some keys are actually sold to them by companies. Some are giveaways. Some are sold by people who got a code, but don't want it. Some are sold by people who bought them during a sale or in another country for a smaller price. Some are sold by people who stole credits cards, bought game codes, and sold them to G2A.
This reddit image triggers me
>a game from steam cant be revoked
hello shill
They reason we know they are stolen is because when the owners of the stolen credit cards realized they have been fucked over, they issue chargebacks on all the keys purchased on the credit cards. If you actually looked at any of the links in the OP you would know this.
Its VERY easy to prove the keys are stolen with chargeback claims
rolin
>Then it's not their problem if your key gets revoked.
I don't think I said it is.