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Game Developers, “Please steal our game rather than buy from the G2A marketplace.”
G2A, a grey market key reseller and basically a major criminal scam sitting in the grey areas of international law More than a few game developers have outright said they condone pirating of their game if it prevents a purchase from G2A. G2A makes it extremely easy to sell stolen or fraudulently obtained game keys extremely quickly. Many of these game keys only last a few days before they are flagged and stop working, leaving angry customers that call up the games tech support and leave bad reviews for the game, causing the developers time and money. Thus just stealing the game and never bothering the developers is financially better for them than this resale market.
It gets better!
Not having this, G2A sent out a letter to multiple publishers, like Kotaku, containing an article they wanted them to publish stating that this was an “unbiased” and “truthful” look at G2A and how it is impossible to sell stolen keys on the site. But also if they could do them a solid and throw that whole Publisher, reader trust thing out the window and not mention this article was a sponsored post sent to them by G2A, it would be totally cool of you and we will even pay you money to keep that a secret!
Of fucking course multiple publishers posted the e-mail in full, with a WTF? Next to it. G2A has claimed the rogue employee who sent the e-mail was fired. I’m sure everyone trusts that’s true.
https://kotaku.com/shady-market-g2a-...e-w-1836186979