![]() ![]() ![]() The other way that sites like these work (or at least, used to, region locking may have cut down on this) is people who buy bulk keys in lower cost countries (Russia, IIRC, was the most common) and sold them in the west for less than the western price but more than they paid in ₽. The best thing to do is just not buy games from grey-market sellers. All you do then is help to validate the thief who goes on to continue their scam with other developers. Problem is, that developer has already been hit by the thief and is going to experience the chargebacks anyway. If I get a chance to put a lousy developer out of business by using G2A, I'm going to take it. Its about money laundering and arbitrage making a few people millionaires. Make no mistake, G2A is not about games or gamers. They are quite proud of how much money it brings and opely brag about it. ![]() Some of the paid streamers and youtubers make over $1 million off of G2A reflinks. Piracy at least doesnt cost the devs anything but a potential sale. Several game devs have come out and asked people to please pirate their game rather than buying from G2A.īuying from G2A costs the game devs the full price of the game plus the chargeback fee. They are aiding carders in laundering millions of dollars. Are people locked in, or are they willfully aiding what amounts to large scale piracy? Are there "mandatory minimums" as it were. Big YouTubers and streamers usually have at least one or two full-time employees backing them (editors, mods, developer relations, graphical artists, PR, etc) and a major media company partnership for ads, sponsorships, and cross promotion. Even though there's quite a bit of effort put into making the big YouTube and Twitch people look small time, there's usually a lot of lawyers, partners, and business stuff in the background complicating things. I also get the impression that they lock people in for a certain amount of time with money up front, so it's not necessarily as simple as just deciding to drop the sponsorship when they want out. At this point you have to be willfully ignorant to not know how unethical and damaging key resellers are (and I know for certain sponsored people have plenty of people reminding them constantly), so they have chosen the money over ethics. I enjoy his newer content, and find his self deprecating and referential humor quite smart at times so I am honestly surprised he still advertises for them in his descriptions. What I am curious about is the nature of their relationship with certain YouTube personalities, chief among them, PewDiePie. ![]()
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