G2A must not be happy with the Jim comic that's circulating

I wonder if they're really so willing to cooperate with law enforcement?

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Has anyone seen any stories that support this?

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This sounds like a great made up scenario

The main issue is that it assumes the developer will co-operate with G2A instead of launching a smear campaign because they are cutting into their profits

After hearing so many people shit on g2a I'm tempted to give them a shot just to be a contrarian. Typically when a bunch of companies get their panties in a twist like this it's because someone's found a way to out-jew them. Fuck 'em.

If devs took a hit on the chargebacks and worked with grey marketplaces to catch these people then the whole issue of chargebacks hurting indie devs could be avoided

If you have that attitude, why not pirate?

As long as companies keep pissing off gamers with bad capitalist gimmicks like launch day dlc, rushed AAA games, and 60-70$ games with 3 hours of rushed mediocre game play, the grey market will thrive.

Sometimes you want to play online and some games take too long to get cracked. IDGAF about being a patreon and who gets my money, I just want to play for as little as possible. If I can get it for free - awesome. If I can't - pay as little as possible.

>have to pay extra for fraud protection
>if you buy a key that was stolen and it gets revoked, G2A will not help you unless you pay an extra 10bux a month
That alone is all you need to tip you off they're running a shady as fuck business.

But why would they user, the devs don't profit from "helping indie devs". They profit from regional pricing, and guess who gets in the way of that masterplan

Almost like its a free market place where anyone could sell anything

I thought it was like 3?

It is

It's also a complete scam since if you buy from the reputable sources you aren't ever getting revoked, save the 3 bucks

Wait wait wait
To use g2a's service you HAVE to give a fucking social media account?
What if i don't use that shit? Is this becoming mainstream now?

Jim could have bought bitcoins.

Maybe it's just if you're a seller. I can't find that shit anywhere and I'm sure as hell not going to make an account. No deal is worth getting scammed.

how does g2a work? I've never use it

You can buy without providing anything, I'm pretty sure that just applies to sellers.

Pretty sure you only have to if you're a seller.

People sell keys they don't want to other people for less than msrp. People get butthurt because origin of keys can be uncertain.

the only thing you need to buy is an email that they can send the code to. i've never had a problem with g2a but i've only used them 5 times.

Just a bunch of eastern Europeans selling keys for cheap due to regional pricing, it aint rocket science

>actively advocating for facebook to become mandatory to engage in transactions

yeh no, G2A is bad but that bullshit would be even worse, I know slippery slope is supposed to be a fallacy but jesus if people start accepting this its a matter of time before we're all chipped

>eastern European
Shadiest part of the whole thing I've heard so far.

>actively advocating for facebook to become mandatory to engage in transactions

I don't mind it as an option, as long as it's not the only option.

how it actually works
>i go to g2a
>i buy some shitty game cheaper than it is on steam
>i get my game
>somewhere in somalia a half starved orphan sheds a tear

You forgot about:
>the indie devs lose precious money

I thought it was more like
>G2A buys keys from countries with lower prices
>resells those keys at a price between the price they paid and the current market price in the US
>effectively incentivizes publishers to fuck over people that live in countries with a weaker currency by enforcing a consistent (highest) price across regions

>if you buy a key that was stolen and it gets revoked, G2A will not help you unless you pay an extra 10bux a month

I love when people shitpost without actually knowing anything~

The SHIELD is for direct support, without having to talk to the trader.
If you don't have the shield, you can and WILL still get a refund if the key gets revoked, you just have to take a few more steps.

Kill yourself faggot.

why some fag from the boonies can only pay like 10 bucks for a full game when I have to pay a full price for the same exact game? might as well just pirate the game instead

If you keep in mind the amount of people buying stuff through G2A, its probably more profitable to keep the regional pricing and have some people circumvent it rather than fuck over a whole country worth of customers

>Another thread of people crying about G2A
>13 Threads about Denuvo being cracked today alone

Never change Sup Forums.

You cry that G2A steals money from developers;
Then you praise pirates for cracking games so you don't have to pay for them.

The irony is fucking hilarious.

>denovo forces poor people to buy games
>poor people can't pirate
>everyone pays more

Ah, so that's how it works.

As a first worlder I literally could not give even one iota of a shit. Anyone with an iphone is just as bad really.

>denuvo forces people to buy games
>people actually buy games
>more games actually get made

my inner weeb wants the nier crack already

>bought 3 humble monthlies so far
>sold early unlock each time on g2a, paying the whole bundle cost
>1 month later I enjoy the free late unlocks and the ones I have bought on g2a with the money I got from the early unlock
>read about the bitchtits drama
>mfw

How G2A actually works: Ebay for video game codes.

why don't they have a system in place to revoke keys?

I liked g2a until they forced you to use a social media account for everything

I don't even bother to use it anymore

I would rather give money to the Russian maffia than publishers

...but why.

>muh shield
>we did it lerdit
shield only gives you direct human chat support
G2a always refund on fraud

It's easier and cheaper to bitch about being ripped off.

I'm undecided on both issues, but there's a clear distinction between fucking over indie devs and not getting ripped off by giant evil companies.

Personally I think each game needs to be judged on an individual basis with context from it's developers. Any sort of negative behavior exhibited by the company making it should be punished. Maybe if more people thought like that microtransactions wouldn't be quite as prevalent.

ever since they bribed my countrys judges to take innocent people to jail ive vowed to never give a dime to hollywood

>Forced you to use a social media account for everything

When?
Literally just bought PREY 4 days ago and didn't even need to sign up.

Maybe you need something for SELLING the key, but that's to help mitigate theft/stolen keys

See, this is the only real complaint I'm seeing lately, is that;
>Muh poor indie devs

99.99% of Indie Games are fucking AWFUL.
They're either EA Survival shit, or stupid fucking Deep Pixel Artsy shit.

I'd rather donate to an Indie Dev if I thought his crappy 2 hour game was fun then spend $5/10 on it before playing.

Reminder
>G2A publicly offers developers the option to work with them to try to revoke stolen keys
>Developers never take the offer up
HMMM

They force you to link a social media profile on new accounts
Just create a vk profile
Register
And unlink
That's what I did

I'll try this

proof?

Why not sell them cheap to everyone in the first place if apparently that still makes a profit

Also, it's not just third world keys but also promo stuff / sales. One example I like to point out is, some games are given away for *free* on steam now and again, tell me which price is more realistic, the 20 bucks Steam wants me to pay for L4D because I wasn't there at the right time, or the 3 bucks I pay on G2A...? Or like when an older game is given away as freebie with some magazine? It's retarded some people get to pay completely different prices for the same digital product. Right now video game pricing is archaic and happens on the whim of the devs as opposed to any kind of tangible logic taking into account what they actually *need* to sell it for to come out profitable. Resellers take away that power

There's a ton of great indie devs out there, the only problem is that they're very precise in what they deliver. They're the antithesis to something broad and watered down so that anyone can enjoy it - they embrace being so focused that anyone not already a huge fan of the idea/theme/genre won't really get anything out of it.
If they go down the path you're describing, the generic zombie survival FPS shitfest, or MUH 8BIT, then yeah that's cancerous. I think it's bullshit that shovel knight gets an 8bit nostalgia pass where other games in that category don't even though it commits the same sins, I hate that fucking game.

Because that would mean doing shit on their end. Developers simply REFUSE to keep track of their code batches. Yeah, couple of devs did it and there was backlash, but that's because some legitimately bought keys got caught in the crossfire. If you fine tune the system and know exactly where each of your key went you can avoid that.

Devs simply find it easier to play the victim card.

Can you post the Jim comic that G2A is mad about, user?

Unfortunately for them, playing the victim card makes them look like liars.

Let's be honest: g2a acts scum no matter what
You have you deactivate the shield on each purchase
They get massive cuts on everything
They charge you on relisting or price changes
Its pretty surreal, but other than that, the website works, and support is good
Its just a pretty Jewish market, and not your friendly steam, hand holding you everywhere

Amazon does the same with the damn premium or whatever they call the almost free shipping that is a membership
You have to say no on every purchase, and the change the message on the regular
Just Jewish tactics

Once the dude send me a wrong code and i eventually(took like 3 days) i got my money back.

The lost profits from people buying legit keys off g2a outweigh the chargeback fees from illegitimately attained keys so smearing g2a is more profitable than working with them

Operative phrase is common sense.

Price too good to be true? Probably bought with a stolen credit card.
Sellers doesn't have 95%+ positive feedback? Don't buy from him.

Yesterday I mistakingly put up a key for a deluxe edition of a game instead of the vanilla version
The website blocked my shit for 2days for weird behavior with a not confirmed key
I had to cancel and delete the thing
The security measures are pretty much in place

Bloggers and indie devs and memeing to avoid the proliferation of a digital distribution ebay

There's also nothing really in it for them. Someone buying stuff from a shady site isn't going to just buy it legit after getting burned. The publisher already lost the money from the chargeback, and would spend more money tracking and filing key revokes. Then if anything at all goes wrong, they've got a publicity nightmare on their hands from revoking the wrong keys. That's not even considering all the people who knew they bought stolen keys causing a shitstorm (while pretending they were wronged) because they have nothing better to do.

This is why their current strategy is just to try to scare people off sites like g2a with sob stories and hit pieces. Make people think it's untrustworthy and highly likely to rip you off, etc. It will probably backfire though, since it also just teaches people there are cheap places to buy keys.

It's different, on one side we have G2A who keeps up his buisness by being shady
On the crack of NIER which is a big deal, there so many posts because when it's annunced that a game will have DENUVO people open 13 threads about how pirates will never play X game.

By chance, if nobody would care about Denuvo and people wouldn't be dickheads for no reason, there wouldn't be threads about that. At least not more than 5.