*sips tea* Well, /v/?

> developers would rather you pirate their game than buy it from G2A

PIRATES ALWAYS WIN

>Indie shitter still pretend to be the victim of chargebacks

Chargebacks are a fine because your security is shit and you facilitate fraud. Normal people have to comb through their credit card history with their bank to see which charges are fraudulent because YOU accepted stolen money. Stop throwing a tantrum at a completely unrelated marketplace and stop trying to dodge Valve's 30% fee, take responsibility for once in your goddamn life.

>>375815556
This is all spot on. G2A is for people too scummy to buy things, but too stupid to pirate.

I don't play indie games because they're shit.

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>>375815556
>>*sips tea*

where's the exodia poster when it's needed.

I think we should just kill jim. porblem solved

>>375815875
i thought valve got 60%

>>375815875
>just give us our cut, goyim

>>375815556
I'll stop buying games and keys off g2a when they stop being cheaper than everywhere else by a mile.

>>375817026
from the OP i think you might as well just get it for free rather than pay for it

>>375817026
BR? Hue hue?

>>375815556
I buy where I get the lowest price. I don't care where the keys come from.

>>375817465
BR? Hue hue??

Why has this become such a big deal lately? That shit has been around for years and years and it's not just G2A

>>375817465
Same.

>>375817414
All the games I buy off g2a are ones with online capabilities that often are either gimped or non existent if I were to pirate.

>>375815556
>One person does one illegal thing
>Everyone else should suffer

Well faggot?

>>375817465
Why not pirate them then?

>>375817819
>one person shoots up a school
>WOW WHO'S IDEA WAS IT THAT I HAVE TO SUFFER BECAUSE OF THIS ASSHOLE
I mean it's not fair but it's not some third party targeting you out. Someone has committed a crime and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time and were affected as a result of it.

epic bait m8

>>375817569
>woooow, why do people care that russians are stealing ccs and fucking over devs and cc holders in the process? unthinkable woooow

>>375818413
Yeah, pretty much

>>375815974
Does all fucking poeple on /v/ think "pirating" is something hard to do ? Its the most easiest thing ever
>You see a game, you google "game name + crack"
>voila
wtf

>>375818413
Hey, a Russian's gotta eat, its not his fault the evil west and the mafia that runs his country are engaged in a trade war pissing match.

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/v/ does not care about random indie devs, nor would they whiteknight for them to this extent.

Post your game instead of pussyfooting around, OP.

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>>375818707

*unzips dick"

Well, OP?

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>>375816257

Why is it g2a's responsibility to check whether or not the steam keys have been acquired illegally, not steam's

Apparently buying with stolen credit cards is only a problem for steam if the keys get resold

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panic

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>>375819094
>>375819182
>>375819262
>>375819362
>>375819425

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>>375819494
wake me up

>>375819425
No

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>all these people thinking there is no reason not to pirate

If your ISP is shit they'll watch, catch, and fine you for pirating the latest games / movies. You also have the potential to be sued if life thinks it'd be hilarious to ruin your day in particular.
>just get a new ISP if the one you have is shit
Sometimes there are no other providers. Some states in the US have piss poor internet services that make a killing because they have a monopoly in that state.

On top of that, you can't play official servers with pirated mainstream game copies.
>just play on the pirate servers if / when available
if these people aren't above stealing, then what makes you think they're above hacking and cheating? On top of that, surely you can't expect the latency / population / server quality to be anything like that of official servers.

I'm sure there's a load of details and other shit i'm forgetting but i'm tired and the point has been made, if poorly.

Have a picture of one of those awesome toys you won from chucky cheese's as a kid and have a fantabulous day.

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>>375819640

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>>375819640
HABBENING

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>>375819494
>>375819640
y tho

>>375815556
>*sips tea*
if it weren't for the laws of this land i would slaughter you

>>375819701
>>375819783
>>375819825
>hownuru

>>375815974
I don't use G2A but wouldn't buying keys this way offer an advantage over piracy by letting you play online on official servers?

>>375819640
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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>>375819640
see why would you go and do that

Well, since this thread is relevant enough, I'll ask here to not have to make a thread for it.

Is G2A like, legit? I don't really care if it's lifted goods, it's like buying a 'fell off a truck' gucci bag on the corner for all I care. I just wanna know if they deliver.

I'm trying to get Ark cheap, and $9 there beats $30 on steam.

>>375819890
It's also not illegal
I don't know if getting slapped with fines or havign your ISP cut your internet connection i still a thing that happens these days if you get caught pirating

>>375819873
>im le oldfag r-right guyz?? I swear im not le redditor xDD

>>375819940
You're a fucking retard for even wanting to play ARK. Like, what is even wrong with you? Are you 12 years old or something?
That said, yeah it's legit. It's not a scam, you will get your key for the advertised price

>>375819940
There are sellers on there with over a million keys sold and 99% approval rating. Just pick a good seller and you'll be fine.

>>375819873
>reacting to something disgusting
>haha you must be new lol im deffinitely not autistic!

>>375819940
i have bought 7 things off g2a and removed their safety shield from every payment

i have 7 extra fun games in my library

it seems so fucking sketchy but its more lucrative to the thieves to just sell their shit off and build reputation on their account instead of jewing people on g2a

just dont buy shit from people who have less than 98% customer satisfaction

>>375819940
They have no obligation to deliver. If you are careful 99% of the time you will get a legit key, but if your key does not work and you did not get G2A shield you are SOL. If a dev decides every key bought from the G2A market is no longer legal and they remove your game from your steam library you are also SOL.

>>375820239
>If a dev decides every key bought from the G2A market is no longer legal
They couldn't possibly have any way of knowing which keys those are, though

>>375820338
They can. Devolver Digital removed every purchase of their games from people's libraries who bought from G2A.

>>375820493
Not only does that mean they put the keys up on G2A themselves, it's also illegal as fuck

>>375819686
>if these people aren't above stealing, then what makes you think they're above hacking and cheating?

... because it's not fun? And I'm not thirteen...?

>>375820493
They said they were going to, but ended up not doing it. Trying to shut down second hand sales is a great way to get the EU to stuff its big fat bureaucratic dick up your ass.

>>375819940
Never had any problems, bought a couple of games, no scam, no keys disabled by the devs or whatever. It's fear mongering.

>>375815556
Huh, that's pretty neat OP, but I still just don't care.

>>375820608
>Not only does that mean they put the keys up on G2A themselves
They didn't. That was a case of keys being revoked because of fraud.
>it's also illegal as fuck
You have no protection buying anything from G2A unless you pay for something that is a consumer right to begin with.

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>>375820676
>i don't think its fun and im not 13

well that's good but what about vadim's shit kid
you are one (1) person lad

>>375815556
I just don't understand how people can love video games, but not give a shit about the people that make them. It's just so entitled.

>>375821283
>You have no protection buying anything from G2A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_purchaser

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Most of the keys for games people actually care about and buy in large volumes come from game boxes bought in low cost countries. Nobody cares about indie devs. If this is a huge problem just stop selling loose keys in bulk.

>woow i honestly thought someone wanted 500 copies of my 2d pixel magnum opus never would i imagined something fishy was going on

>Backslash from disabling keys bought from stolen credit card
kek even if that's the case indi devs should just grow a spine and disable them anyway. It's the buyers' fault for using g2a anyway.

>>375818539
the average iq here still falls for fake download buttons

>>375821491
And how are you going to enact your little consumer rights with an online Polish company registered in Hong Kong? Drag them to court in Strasbourg?

>>375821370
>IMG_20170414_170312.jpg
>twitter tier grainy spongebob meme image
you have to go back, twitternigger

>>375821684
Are you retarded? Devolver Digital cancels your key, your claim is against them

G2A sells steam keys.
Anyone who uses G2A uses steam.
Anon who uses steam is cancer.

>>375815556
But mister rebbitposter, jim can do this at any number of businesses.

Most purchases in the world are assumed to be legitimate. If anything it's the original CC owner's fault for letting his info get stolen and not reporting it promptly.

g2a isn't some kind of crime fighter.

Any business can get fucked over by this kind of malicious purchase.

>>375815556
Cry some more reddit.

I'll pirate your shit indie game instead.

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>>375821698
actually im a phoneposter, twitter wont fit on my phone
i use clover, it keeps whatever filenames others set when i save an image

feel free to call me a phoneposter though :)

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>>375815556
wait, it can't really be that simple. surely the police have some way of knowing some dude has just bought fucktons of shitty indie games through steam, right?
honestly if this is how it works I'll be amazed. I've found & handed in about 3 dropped credit cards over the past 5 years, I had no idea I could've been making money off it

>>375818539
do you actively ignore the hordes of threads with simple, stupid questions that could be answered with a fifteen second internet search?
you have no idea how utterly useless the average person is

*pee pees in OP's mouth*

>>375815556
> no offense to any body else called jim
What is this PC fagtoory?

>>375820147
>not having seen disgusting bullshit often enough to not really care
>thinking your le epic "grosssss" tier replies do anything other than show off how you're not used to posting on this shitty website yet
Newfag.

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>>375815556

This is almost as bad as coming after places that sell used games.

>if you don't wanna buy it new from us don't buy the game!

Lmao

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So where do sites like gamersgate.com (not affiliated with the internet misogyny campaign) and greenmangaming get their keys from? Are they the same type of store as G2A?

Also fuck those whiny Bay Area indie devs, Git gud or git out

>>375818783
>le no argument face

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>>375824521
>not affiliated with the internet misogyny campaign
>internet misogyny campaign
>implying

get out please

>>375815556

>We should stop doing something, because a small margin is doing something bad with it.

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>>375819686
>live in a non-retarded country
>mfw my ISP doesn't give a fuck unless I pirate movies/music/series made in my country
I mostly just pirate movies/tv series though because netflix/other streaming services have retardedly bad selections in my country.

>>375824521
They're "authorised resellers". In normal people language that's called a retailer or webstore.

>>375815556
I like how these reverse shill threads get posted every day, but nobody's ever posted any actual proof of these claims.

What is your agenda, OP?

>>375816824
Nah, Valve takes 30% of everything. The 60% thing was from the paid mods fiasco because Bethesda wanted to take another 30%.

>>375824521
There are basically two types of key stores.

One is authorized resellers, which includes Gamersgate, Green Man Gaming, etc. They're essentially the same thing as buying a game at GameStop and registering it with Steam (except without the physical component obviously).

The other is unauthorized resellers, which is basically everyone else. The most famous examples are G2A and Kinguin, but there are a lot more of them. They're just as legal as the authorized stores, but they don't get their keys directly from the publisher or Valve so they don't have the official stamp of approval. As a result they don't have to play by the normal rules so they can often offer games cheaper than authorized stores. Valve has a lot of rules about how and when you can sell games, including region restrictions and what kind of sales you can have for them. Unauthorized resellers simply ignore these rules (for example, by buying international keys in cheap regions and then reselling them for $ prices), but even authorized sellers try to dodge those rules by offering coupons or "VIP" discounts when they're not allowed to have actual sales, especially GMG does this a lot.

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>>375821776

Good luck finding a lawyer to win that case

Until games get deactivated because of G2A charbacks people will keep buying off them.

Sure it punishes people who bought off G2A, but you have no excuse for innocence at this point.

>>375822027
> not just racking up over 40 thousand unsorted and unnamed image files, most of which are doubles or triples of the same file

thats not how a real nigga internets

>>375815556
If you're anti G2A, you're anti-consumer, it's as simple as that. Reselling bought shit is a basic consumer right and G2A is only a platform for people to exercise this right. If you prioritize developer/publisher rights over those of the consumer you need to get the fuck out of here, you corporate cocksucking shitstain.

>>375825201
is that so....
valve dont seem so bad no mo