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Should You Buy Games on G2A?
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it's not surprising that many gamers are
constantly in search of a discount on
the titles they want lots of triple-a
titles cost around 60 US dollars at
launch and tend to stay that way for
quite a long time after release and with
digital distribution being the norm
these days it becomes very difficult to
sell your games later on after you've
gotten tired of them and even if your
taste in games isn't big budget titles
that require a big upfront cost you can
easily spend tons of money on DLC even
after buying a cheaper game or you can
just pay on both ends easier as a result
a number of gray market online stores
have popped up such as g2a & kinguin
that offered digital game keys from
third-party sellers at prices often far
lower than you'd find from traditional
stores or directly from the developers
but how did they keep their prices so
low and is buying from these places a
good idea
well these keys can come from a variety
of places g2a claims that many of the
keys for sale on their site come from
wholesalers that buy them in bulk from
game studios while others are sold by
folks who take advantage of promotions
such as humble bundles and giveaways
then flip those codes for a profit
entrepreneurs however many codes are
acquired by much less ethical means it's
not uncommon for unscrupulous resellers
to pose as game journalists or youtubers
rude an attempt to trick developers into
giving out review codes or for them to
buy codes in one region of the world
where a game is cheaper and resell them
to folks elsewhere denying the game
studio a sale in that other location but
considering it's not that hard to steal
a credit card number many keys are
simply purchased with a pilfered Visa or
MasterCard and resold at a very low
price in fact earlier this year g2a
promised that it would pay developers
ten times what they lost in credit card
charge backs for any stolen keys that
ended up on the GTA platform however g2a
also downplayed how often this actually
occurred and while GTA said that they
wanted to allow game studios to block
certain keys from being sold on the
platform indie game developers
specifically wanted many of their games
to be delisted from the site entirely
since they're more vulnerable to
financial arm
the larger developers but g2a refused to
do this and this problem isn't just
specific to game keys many major online
game stores like Steam no longer sell
keys instead assigning a specific copy
of the game to the account that bought
it again
perhaps with a stolen credit card yet
it's still possible to transfer access
to buyers who might not be aware that
they're buying a stolen game through
gifting systems such as Steam gifts and
regardless of whether it bothers you
that you might be buying a stolen or
otherwise ill-gotten copy of the game
you do run the risk of the game studios
deactivating your copy if you found out
it wasn't legitimately obtained Ubisoft
did exactly this back in 2015 two gamers
who already bought and activated games
from reseller sites that were originally
obtained with a stolen credit card the
move spurred outrage among gamers that
didn't realize that they had bought a
stolen game and although
Ubisoft did ultimately restore access to
players that had already activated their
games they didn't give any other
recourse for other resold keys doing the
right thing maybe not in the best way
okay Riley I get it these game
marketplaces are shady but how can I
save money on games without using them I
got kids to feed man well the good news
is that sites like is there any deal
make it fairly easy to find out if a
game you want is on sale at a seller
known to be legitimate at any given time
and you also have the option of buying
game bundles at a significant discount
there are also game subscription
services such as EA access and Xbox game
pass that lets you play from a library
of titles for a flat monthly fee and
down the line you may even have the
option to legitimately purchase used
digital games from others earlier this
year a French Court ruled that consumers
have the right to sell their unwanted
Steam games assuming valve doesn't win
their appeal so hopefully buyer's
remorse over digital games will soon
become a thing of the past in the
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