Now that Steam abolished the ability to store games into inventory,

>>382327534
Doesn't this inadvertently hurt steam sales as well?

Yes but its also like anyone else buying a companies product and then reselling it. Illegal.

>>382327626
I can't see why it would hurt steam. G2A basically extended Steam sales by offering a marketplace for people to sell games they bough on sale, and store in their inventory.

Now, if you want a particular game, and it's not on sale, you either pay full price or go without, or pirate.

>>382327534
>Steam abolished the ability to store games into inventory
you can't get a key for doing this. The majority of g2a shit are people in countries with low currency reselling to a 1st worlder.

>>382327626
Killing anything that could be thought of as competition could do even more damage though

When did steam abolish the ability to store games in my inventory?

Never bought a G2A key that came from an inventory.
It was always just straight up keys.

>>382327875
In May of this year. You now have to gift directly to a Steam friend.

Sucks now that I have to friend someone first before gifting.

>>382327534
>praising the literal global hub for scammers to unload their loot from their social engineering and stealing to launder them into steam games
>you literally have to pay G2A to protect you from themselves if they sell you a stolen game otherwise too bad lmao

jfckysffs

>>382327921
Most the games I've bought from G2A were all Steam gifts.

>>382328069
>he doesn't know

>>382328207
>she thinks she knows

>>382327534
good, I hope G2A shuts down. The more pressure they get on all sides, the better. scumbags

>>382328069
>you literally have to pay G2A to protect you
no you don't.

>>382327921
>>382328107
I think I've bought like 4 keys and 1 inventory item.
Either way I haven't used the site in a while since after they changed the VAT system for EU citizens.In case you don't know what I'm talking about, you're given the option to choose how much VAT you need to pay depending on the region you live in. They're a shady operator based in Hong Kong, so they're not going to report shit to your domestic authorities, but either way if you choose 0% VAT you're committing fraud technically. I don't like the prospect of that.

>people itt unironically defending this anti-capitalist, anti-free market decision to fuck them in the ass
It's okay when Valve does it

>>382328069
I never purchased their shield protection. I bought dozens of games. I got burned once, and G2A refunded my money.

G2A is a marketplace, just like Ebay, and if you're too much of a retarded maggot to understand how internet marketplaces work, then just shoot yourself.

Buy from sellers with hundreds of sales and a good rating if you're worried about a scammer. Simple as that.

>>382327534
y-you cant store gifts in inventory anymore?

link to steam article / blogpost pls

>>382328704
https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/4/15541652/steam-gifting-changes-key-resellers

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>>382328805
No, not polygon. Bad, very bad.

>>382328850
Just add a game to your Steam cart, then try to gift it, you'll see.

>>382327534
what the fuck are you talking about?
people sell keys on G2A, not inventory items
the inventory market on G2A has always been almost non-existant

>>382328927
a change like that would have a blogpost from valve directly

link it

>>382329118
Go find it yourself you lazy fuck.

>>382329208


https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1301948399254001159


u lazy

Good riddance, criminal scum

Wtf are you talking about. g2a is about games not steam inventory

Does this apply to yurop too?
I heard their commie governments force steam to allow reselling etc.

>>382329772
A lot of people sold games stored in their steam inventories via G2A

>>382329879
>consumer rights are commie
american education everyone

>>382330010

i mean they can just operate from europe then with steam gifts if the keys are global

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>>382330010

>commie is bad

>Urf since when is caring about the ppl buaaaaaad

>>382327626
No.

Steam sales are sales during the low sales time of summer, these companies were hording keys being sold cheap and ruining sales though the whole year when most people do buy games (winter)

>all these corporate cock slurping redditors hating on g2a

the only people who hate on g2a are reddit losers that worship le baysed gabe xDDD

I have saved so much money on g2a

G2a was the only reason i bought games.

>>382330252
>all these corporate cock slurping redditors hating on the black market

Bro so what if it's illegal and immoral, I saved money by buying from criminals bro

Why not just pirate games if you don't want to support the developers you absolute moron

>>382330252
They're the typical cuck that goes out and finds the dirtiest, potentially AIDS riddled bum to fuck their girlfriend on cam.

They'll relentlessly cry that their games are rip-offs and splintered into a thousand DLC, but when some marketplace offers a method of legally purchasing games heavily discounted, they all of sudden become white nights to the very dev community that wants to bleed them dry of cash.

Personally, I think it's devs themselves who start all the anti-g2a threads on reddit. Since they know how easily manipulated those little faggots are.

>>382330623
Because denuvo.

>>382330623
>illegal

no.

>immoral

lol, how is that exactly? And why should I care? You suck developers' cocks. I don't care about them. I want games cheaply, and it's not illegal, so I buy from g2a.

>>382327534
>thier

>>382330774
>illegal
Not for you to buy them, but most game keys they sell are gained via illicit means

>lol, how is that exactly?
Because you're buying illicitly acquired goods. If you don't care about morals, just pirate instead of funding criminals

>>382331073
>If you don't care about morals, just pirate instead of funding criminals

Denuvo.

>>382327534
It sucks, thanks to G2A I was able to get battleborn for $1.50

>>382327772
This, rememeber that time we mexicans got dark souls 3 for less than a 1 dollar?
I made a ton of money that day, I sold all of my codes before steam took them away from people like me

>>382330252
>https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1301948399254001159
I love how g2a shills try and use this when g2a is a multimillion dollar corporation. kill yourself

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>>382330774

>>382327626
No, because G2A is competition. Now people will have to buy directly trough steam.

>>382332102
good

>>382327534

It'll just push them into buying more stolen keys. Which in turn will hurt developers and consumers more.

They're not going to pack up shop and stop making money just because Valve made it more difficult to do it fairly. They're just going to switch to more unfair tactics.

>>382327768
>people to sell games they bough on sale

Most of those keys were stolen trough credit card fraud.

>>382332380
WTF are you bullshitting about? The devs issue keys for their games. They aint selling stolen keys.

G2A got a bad rap for theft when some faggots stole some credit cards and tried to use G2A to launder their goods.

That's not G2A's fault. Hell, you gonna blame Ebay when some faggot steals a credit card, then runs to BestBuy and purchases a TV to sell on Ebay?

>>382327534
>Now that Steam abolished the ability to store games into inventory, it appears the reseller days are now numbered.

I never bought an inventory item. For all my purchases on any reseller I got a key

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Before:
>Not sure if/don't think game X is worth Y amount of money
>Buy it for Z€/$ from a reseller, devs get some money (albeit not much)

After:
>Not sure if/don't think game X is worth Y amount of money
>Pirate the game or ignore it altogether, no money spent

And why the fuck is it morally wrong to pay for eastern european tier prices when publishers are allowed to outsource work in Poland/Ukraine?

>>382332798
Devs don't get money from keys purchased through stolen credit cards. They eventually get charged back.

>>382332798
It's not morally wrong to purchase at lower prices,
that's basic consumerism. It's morally wrong to purchase from illicit sources

Give me a TL;DR
What is different?

>>382329314
Wow, fuck steam.

>>382332910
Yep, and Steam is a site that tries to sell products purposely designed to turn a person into a gambling junky, which is about as illicit and morally corrupt as you can get.

>>382333115
Ive used steam for years, what the fuck are you talking about? Shouldnt ypu be in summer school since its obvious youre fucking retarded.
Bitch about steam being drm but stop with the bullshit.

>>382333115
>purposely designed to turn a person into a gambling junky
Because paying for a random cosmetic is gambling
If you spend hundreds of dollars in the hopes of getting a fancy virtual skin, you didn't get coaxed into a gambling addiction by the evil corporation, you're just a vain moron with no sense of self control

>>382332798
>devs get some money (albeit not much)
nope. you self righteous fuck. devs have stated they'd rather people pirate anyway, so nice job bozo

>>382333270
lol, ya, like all the CSGO faggots that get hooked buying crates hoping they can win a $500 knife.

If you seriously can't see how that's a marketing scam completely designed to addict kids ino gambling, then that only proves one thing...YOU'RE A FUCKING STEAM EMPLOYEE.

>>382332798
Before:
>Not sure if/don't think game X is worth Y amount of money
>play demo

fixed

>>382332102
No, people will still be able to buy from Humble Bundle, Bundle Stars, IndieGala etc.
G2A wasn't authorized seller and you couldn't trust them.
They screwed me over for 3$. Fuck them.

>>382333347
>nope

I don't know about G2A but I've bought a few games from Instant Gaming. Apparently, they get the cd keys from boxed copies: either you explain to me how they get those for free or you're full of shit.

>>382333654
>Implying demos are common these days

>>382333908
>g2a thread
>uh lemme just bring up this irrelevant no name site to backpedal

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>>382327626
Steam hurts is own sales

They get shittier each year with lower and lower discounts and more shovelware.

>>382334440
>100k+ reviews on Trustpilot is no name tier

Whatever you say buddy.

>>382334646
>trustpilot
lol

also nice job bringing up a random site in a g2a thread you stinking ape

>>382331073
>most game keys they sell are gained via illicit means
Any proof? Friendly hint: "a fat cancer patient said so" is not proof.

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>>382334901
>this site sells games at a fraction of the original price, even at launch
>surely, nothing illicit is going on here!

>>382335103
Greenman often sells new releases for $15 less than the asking price and they are legit

>>382327534
wasn't G2A a scam?

>>382336927
Lots of people got scammed, but it's not 'a scam' per se. A lot of their game keys are bought with stolen credit cards which is why they're controversial

Fuck G2A for ruining the Steam Gifting system. I can't gift to my friend anymore because i'm a fucking leaf.

>>382332861
good shill
buy from g2a all my shit ...
only one key revoked outof 200

>>382333027
nothing, you've stumbled into a "eurofags freaking out over nothing" thread.

>>382327534
>Steam abolished the ability to store games into inventory, it appears the reseller days are now numbered.
Wait what? I assume I still have games ther I just cant buy new games and store them that way?

>>382331073
>most game keys they sell are gained via illicit means
wrong, you really think the chargeback thing is true? that's laughable. there would be no way to buy that many keys just through them charging back

>muh morals
well spooked my property

G2A = SCAM2A

>>382328357
This.

It boggles my mind that people would rather give money to literal thieves rather than actual devs.

>>382335103
Circumstantial evidence doesn't prove the "illicit means" part.

>>382328565
This means more profit for Valve. This is capitalism at it's finest.

>>382340059
They are using stolen credit cards to purchase the majority of the keys. Common knowledge at this point

Good.

>>382340161
because a fat british cancer patient said so right

yes, the majority of the keys are using stolen credit cards, it's not that people buy keys where they are cheaper, like in third world countries or anything

>>382340059
Are you seriously shilling for fucking G2A?

>I dont care about the devs or where my money is going but I still wish to buy it instead of just pirating it

If youre so concerned about getting them as cheap as possible just pirate

>>382332798
>And why the fuck is it morally wrong to pay for eastern european tier prices when publishers are allowed to outsource work in Poland/Ukraine?
This so much, I'm still seething from that thread about Horizon that explained how they outsourced all the animation/texture/object work to Indian shitters to cut corners.
And we're still supposed to pay MSRP for that shit.

>>382340282
multiplayer, retard.

>>382330252
the only people who cry about g2a are jim "fatass"stirling and total cancer
>it hurts muh devs
the only people I have seen complain are some low tier indie devs whose game are pretty shit.
besides kinguin is better

>>382340482
>the only people I have seen complain are some low tier indie devs
Yeah,like Ubisoft.

>>382340319
Since when it is wrong to outsource part of your work where ti's cheaper so you can allocate more resources to other stuffs?

If it bothers you so much just pirate instead of supporting people who would steal your credit card info if they could.

>>382327534
>Now that...

This happened months ago, what the fuck are you on about? If your vagina dries at the thought of buying from G2A then hit up GOG. End of story.

>>382340239
No, I'm not. Are you so against G2A that a bit of skepticism about some guy saying something automatically counts as "shilling"?

Oh right, it's /v/, of COURSE any opinion that contradicts yours is "shilling"

>>382341030
>some guy saying something
And the devs supporting him, but I'm sure they're less trustworthies than the site that offer you a "protection shield" that costs 1 dollar a month and is a pain to stop.

>>382328069
I don't use their shield for small purchases, but for games over 30 euro yeah, adding 3 euro is still less than the 60 euro that Steam asks for brand new AAA titles

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What the fuck? This is not going to change my steam experience that much because I don't horde games in my inventory, but still... what the fuck. How does buying games for friends work now?

>>382341724
You send them games right away.
No more collecting in inventory.

>>382335103
>somebody bought at a vendor that offers a lower price than its competitor?
>surely the law is being broken!

>>382342127

It is, it's called price fixing.

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>visit steam forums
>people are actually defending this

Why are people like this? I also saw people defend the paid mods shit back then, but good thing the sensible people made more noise than the cucks and shills. I hope valve is going to hear the cries and will revert back to the old inventory system.

>>382332468
If this were true they'd just buy at full price. The fact that inventory is running out is proof that most keys were legit.

>>382327534
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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>maybe if we change the system so that people can't stock games in their inventory and gift them later, they will buy the full priced games instead :DDDD

Wow, great thinking, Valve! I'm sure this is exactly what the players will do!

>>382340898
>so you can allocate more resources to other stuffs?

Yeah I'm sure buying yots for the CEOs is a better investment than getting good developers.

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Won't this inventory shit just make people buy less games? If you have to gift the games immediately during the buy process, it means there will be less games bought and less games played. Like this:

>buy game for yourself and your two buddies during sales
>can't buy a fourth game because you don't have a fourth player and you can't save it in your inventory
>months later after sale
>fourth player appears
>can't gift him a game because you couldn't hold one in your inventory
>you're not going to buy a full priced game, especially after you bought your own copy for much cheaper

>>382327534
Speak English you subhuman mongrel.

Why not just limit how many copies of the game you can have in your inventory? Or just limit the amount of games you can have in your inventory bought during sales? That would be fine and would make sense. The higher the base price, the less you can stock it in your inventory.

>>382327534
>no source
>reatarded assumptions pulled out of OP's ass
>110 replies submitted

>>382343791
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1301948399254001159

>>382343514
Yeah but the thing is that overall seem to make them lose money.

>sale happens
>game x is -80% off
>some trader buys 1000 copies
>sale is over
>steam sales drop to 0 because everyone goes to the guy who bought those cheap copies and sells them for less than normal price in order to make profit for himself

>>382327763

Scalpers aren't breaking the law you retard.

>>382327534
Steam knows eliminating the inventory storage is gonna piss their customers off. Why else would they have done it in such a sneaky and quiet manner.

Most of my g2a purchases have been keys. So this matters very little to me.

As long as g2a keeps selling cheap keys I'll keep buying. Fuck supporting the devs.

>>382342492
They're probably paid shills by Steam who sit at a PC all day and go around defending Steams image to sway popular opinion, and head off damage control.

wait what, you can't store games in your inventory anymore? since when?

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>g2a shill butthurt ITT
eat shit russian thieves

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>>382345021
>Russian

>funding terrorism

>>382327534
>trying to scam people out of hundreds for broken half finished games.
Why are you buying those games, you fucking retard?
Jesus christ, you G2A shills are cancer.

ITT: people who don't have a the slightest fucking clue how key resellers can offer lower prices

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>>382345281
Oh you're right, SUBHUMAN thieves.

>>382330010
>I have a right to buy keys that were originally bought with credit card fraud
nice

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>>382345021
>tfw grim dawn for 3$, killing floor 2 for 4$

>>382328069
>Buy from sellers with shit rating and few sales
>get scammed
>complain on /v/

>>382346185
>implying anyone would actually buy from G2A

this thread is satire

>>382328292
>assuming my gender
you done it now

>>382339981
cheap things > not-so-cheap things
deal with it faggot

>>382345787
>I have a right to buy keys
Correct

>>382330651
>They'll relentlessly cry that their games are rip-offs and splintered into a thousand DLC
Why are you playing those games in the first place you fucking retard?

You're whining about wanting to buy them for $2 (only the base game) from Polish Jews, when in reality you can just pirate the game (and all its DLC) for $0. Your argument is purely retarded and quite suspect

>>382340089
but is it free market though?

>>382345787
>m-muh CREDIT CARD FRAAUUUUDDDDDD
Fuck off Leddit.

>>382346560
>little timmy wonders why he can buy a $50 game for $7 but doesn't have the brain capacity to understand why
TGTBT

>>382342920
>Yots

>>382345630
if it's cheap i don't give a fuck how it's bought
if someone was selling a $700 graphics card for $200 i would buy it.

>G2A keys are acquired illegally
do you have any single fact to back that up.jpg

oh no guess i'll have to pay 1 credit more on legit site instead
oh wait i already do that
keep buying games at 60 dollars cuck, someone has to do it

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>>382346662
It's almost as if different prices are offered in different regions, or the games go on sale or something crazy like that.

Fraud allegations have NOTHING to do with how key sellers managed to get their hands on such cheap keys. The concern isn't over stealing keys from Steam, it's about buying legitimate keys at legitimate prices with stolen money.

>>382346662
You're talking to someone who sold on G2A. Everything got bought from Steam competitors that had sales when Steam/Amazon did not. All bought with the 4 legit Mastercards I had :^)

Seems like you are lacking in the brain department senpai, go back to Reddot to cry more.
>>382346931
They don't, it's literally a Reddot tier meme parroted on pc masterrace and other shit subs.

>>382346823
you're arguing with 12 year old kids who think that the $10 they earned from mowing a summer lawn is a fortune

>>382347095
>$
Of course it's the claps that are being fat riddled retards again. Nuke yourselves please, you irrelevant continent. Only good for entertainment.

>>382347189
>on a video game board
>complains about entertainment
Back to /pol/

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>/v/tards don't realize that grey sites don't sell games, but keys

>>382347240
I'll spell it out for you, so lay down the fries for a second. Americans have gotten so retarded in almost every way possible the last decade or so, you're basically walking globs of entertainment.

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>/v/ defends piracy
>but goes against key resellers

>>382346969
>Fraud allegations have NOTHING to do with how key sellers managed to get their hands on such cheap keys.
zzz

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-01-26-it-looks-like-ubisoft-is-going-after-third-party-key-sellers

next thing you're going to type is
"boo hoo who cares about Ubisoft" because you have no argument and are backpedaling like the shill you are

I'm glad steam has gotten rid of stockpiling gifts in inventory this past month. If you want a game but don't want to pay money, pirate it.

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>>382347353
>I live in a third world country where $10 is a fortune
literally more worthless than american teenagers

cry a river elsewhere, ukrainian pig thief

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>>382347380
>he doesn't realise that barely any sellers on g2a deal in Steam inventory but in pure keycodes
Accomplishes literally nothing.

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>>382347556
>shill doesn't even read the thread
how much are they paying you? 20% of your true value?

>>382347380
>The suggestion here is that Ubisoft is targeting keys bought with fraudulent credit cards.

Wow, it's almost as if this is EXACTLY what I was saying and you can't read for shit

>calling other people shills
>for not bending over and accepting Steam's price discrimination

Nice try gabe, if you don't want me to buy keys then why don't you sell games at the same price globally?

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>>382347534
>projecting this hard
Go buy a Mountain Dew or something with the cash your Uncle gave you for mowing his lawn or something, kid.

>>382348091
That's not really much for life time savings, anon.

>>382348953
>thinks he's clever calling it life savings
>probably still more than he actually has in life savings himself
Medium kekkles

>>382348091
>30 months in a year

>>382348091
>mountain dew
I'm more of a mr pibb man myself but thanks for the suggestion.

I've no idea if its faggots or shills that spread this shit. I used G2a for 3 years, whenever Dark souls 1 came out on pc, and i never once got fucked with a fake key. I never bought that bullshit safeguard or whatever the fuck it was called. Ironically i used a "legit" site the other day bundlestars and the first game i bought was "duplicate cd-key detected".

>>382349129
>having cash on hand instead of in your bank collecting interest
Why yes, it's the poorfag's life savings stored under your bed.

No wonder you're a whiny bitch when your $3 stolen games are taken away from you by a new Steam policy.

lmao, fuckin thirdparty cheapfaggots got owned.

>>382351459
they probably bought from someone with a 40% rating and with only a hundred sales, got scammed, and think the entirety of G2A is all illegally-acquired stuff.

>>382327534
Reddit won let it die

>>382344165
why should I care steam sales drops to 0?
They already made 1000 sales at a price they set to sell many copies making enough profit. They didn't sell those 1000 copies at a loss. They wouldn't actually sell 1000 copies outside of the sales.

>>382327534
>it was the best place to escape the greed of code moneys trying to scam people out of hundreds for broken half finished games.

>escape greed of big companies selling you overpriced games by paying overpriced services to chinks that steal game keys
really smart move indeed

>>382352926
>Reddit is against G2A
>Reddit is also in favor of G2A
which one is it

>>382353062
It's not about you.
It's about publishers losing money and Steam not wanting to get any responsiblility.

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>go to G2A
>game i want is more expensive than on steam
fucking cod WaW, how can it cost £13 after all these years?

>>382327534
This is great news.

What g2a were doing was causing publishers to give shitty sales.

Wait hold on.
I bought some games during the sale before this change via device because my computer is in repairs for a few weeks.
Whats going to happen to it?

>>382353250
lol no. If they bought the game on sale, the devs got their cut. You are confusing buying games during sales and reselling them outside of sales period & credit card chargeback.

>>382330774
seems cool as fuck until you realize you bought a duplicate key and G2A Shield doesn't help you out at all because they're not held to the same standard of scrutiny over in Chinese grey markets.
>Dude lmao 40 bucks gone shoulda bought legit

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>>382330252
This
kys moralfags and fuck off

>>382327534
isn't this bad for the huge autistic item communities of TF2 and CS:GO? a lot of people just trade shit for games instead of other things. by eliminating that, you're killing off your popular games. and yes, thats why a majority of people play those shitty games

>>382353564
lol poorfags so mad.

>>382353739
good goy pay more for same thing!

>>382333771
>there are multiple ways to get your shit settled
>even if you don't go for their shitty, overpriced protection shit. sellers will still give you the right copy
>you're too much of a bitch to actually contact the seller

>>382353371
What the fuck is up with that, every other CoD game is a tenner

>>382345021
They're chinesse and saudi arabian

>>382353593
last I checked apparently CSGO has moved onto straight up cash when liquidating items, there's sites that'll take your items and give you either PayPal bucks or keys.
although I miss the day of trading up a genuine pipboy for a game to some dude who had like 30 copies left over from the steam sale, I guess they've moved past that; it's all gambling and hard cash now.

>>382353739
>smart money=poorfag

>>382353785
Not like you have a choice now

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>>382353739
>not being a retard with money makes you a poorfag
well anon i don't see you lasting long as a non-poorfag with that attitude

>>382353434
If that would be alright all games would be permanently ''on-sale''

Long term pricedrops are bad for business. Deals exist for a short time period to get people into the purchase.

>>382348091
not them
but I guarantee 100% that someone already posted this pic months ago

>>382354095
That's right goy! Pay full price!

>>382354003
lol fuckin cheap0.

>>382354095
>Implying
G2A sells keys too

>>382327534
How?
G2A sellers mostly sell keys.

Steam Gifts were never available as keys...

>>382347357
Piracy doesn't directly hurt devs

>>382354195
go ahead and give me a good reason to pay extra for the same thing

>>382354195
Support the (((Developers)) fellow /v/ poster!

>>382354125
>filty cheap0 thinks he will become millinionare for saving on videogames

lmao.

>>382327534
G2A doesn't sell steam gifts... don't they sell keys? What're you talking about?

>no more inventory gifts, G2A btfo!
>doesn't really affect G2A much because they use cd keys anyways
>TF2 community is kill now
lmao

>>382327763
You're retarded.

Selling things you own is a basic consumer right. If you buy a car and then sell it to someone else, that's not just legal, that's protected by law. Even ticket scalping and other questionable shit like that is still legal.

>>382333771
>Unless someone says it's OK, you're not allowed to sell their product
That's not how capitalism works buddy.

>>382354212
G2A will be long gone soon.

>>382354419
they sell both, although keys are the major part of the marketplace, yes

>>382354249
>>382354419
It's corporate shill thread by (((Publishers))) trying to shame people into spending more.

>>382354402
is not only videogames anon, if you are that retarded with your money in all things you are not going to remain nonpoor for long

but your b8 has gotten old now so this is the last (You) i give you

>>382327534
Thanks for reminding me that I have to get some keys for games that were removed from steam.

>>382354496
How?
They sell keys, they still have lots of people providing keys and lots of people buying keys.

>>382347323
its the same thing hasufel

>>382347357
With piracy you have faggots doing mental gymnastics like "It is not stealing because the original is still there" "They don't lose a sale because I wasn't planning on buying anyways" or "I will buy it if it is good i swear"

>>382354712
For the end user, yes, both gifts and keys gave the user copy of the game.
The difference is, gifts are now restricted but keys can never be.
>bbut something they try stop keys!!!!!one
No, GameStop, Walmart, Target and friends won't let them - not going to happen.

>>382354517
what is this multiple parenthesis meme i have been seeing it a lot recently

>let me reap the fruits of globalism through producing items with cheap labour in the third world
>HOW YOU DARE USE GLOBALISM TO YOUR ADVANTAGE GOY YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BUY THESE CHEAP GAMES FROM THE THIRD WORLD REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>382354965
This.

>>382354508
FUCK. I never noticed that.
There's a steam gift for a game that's not on steam anymore that I want.
How bad is g2a... like for getting scammed. I mean this steam gift is just a link, it could be fake.

What's the chance I get scammed?
And what is the chance that G2A fucks me in the ass? Because all that shield shit scared me.

>>382327763
you can resell anything you bought. when you can't is when you didn't simply buy something but instead entered a bona fide a agreement where you said you wouldn't resell.

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>>382354946
(((They're))) trying to figure us out boys don't give them a bite!

>>382355018
What is the rating of the seller and how many games it sold? If it is something like +98% with thousands of it then it is safe

I don't know if the gift restriction applies to already existing gifts however

>>382355018
Unlikely as long as you buy from sellers who have a decent amount of sales reputation.
You might get fucked over with the same key being sent twice somewhere, since most of the sellers are really bots - but even without the protection bullshit, it gets fixed pretty quickly once a real human reads the request.

>>382355113
I am just a meme scholar doing research, my man

>>382355170
It doesn't, only gifts after the announcement.

>>382355183
>>382355170
It's someone with no rating, but they sold two games and got thumbs up.
I read before that the ones with low sales are good too because it's just people dumping games they don't want.
I'll look and see if there's a better reseller.
Is it safer to get a key or gift? Or it doesn't matter

>>382354965
it's called price discrimination. as a business there really is no such thing as a set price. your real objective is to sell your stuff to every person on the planet at the highest price they are willing to pay whilst still making value for your business.

You can do your sarcastic insults all you want but they can lock down regions even further.

>>382354946
it means they are a jew. people used it offensively but now SJW also use it defensively saying i am a proud jew.

>>382355420
I never heard of that, but i always find it better to err on the side of caution.
If you can't find a reseller i think you can buy from G2A themselves directly. Slightly more expensive however.
Remember to check region compatibility. Some are only for RU/CIS region

>>382355420
check if the game is on cdkeys.com they only sell legit copies they source themselves. G2A uses 3rd parties.

>>382351781
>Leaving your cash with thieves
Surely you must not be this daft.

>>382355664
Yeah, I'm looking in the GLOBAL verison of the game. All the horror stories got me shook... but if this transaction works... I think I'm going to be hooked, man. I'm an addict.

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>>382327534
Stop buying g2a games.

>>382355792
Nope. That sucks, would have bought it there.

>>382354857
like clockwork >>382354291

>>382355512
And I'm just going to pirate.

Check mate, jew.

I will never understand people who buy from G2A instead of just pirating

>>382328069
Never buy the g2a protection shit. One time I did and then the key was already used and they wouldn't give me my money back anyway. Just buy from people with good reputation and you will be fine

>>382355814
yeah dude then you enter the real world and you realize you can't just store tens of thousands of dollars under your race car bed

>>382355979
He's saying that because if you pirate a game, the devs get nothing.
If you buy a key that was purchased with a stolen credit card, then the credit card company does a charge back and then they have to pay a fee on top of returning the money.

That's what he means by directly hurting the devs.

>>382356073
>Still leaving your money with thieves
Come on anon, the moment you do that that money ain't yours anymore.

>>382356023
convenience of owning an officially supported copy instead of going to the trouble of pirating

>>382356023
achievements my man, i'm HOOKED.

>>382332468
stop with this meme
if you can't chose a seller who isn't russian or have bad rating you're the retard
I don't buy on g2a, but I got like 60 games on kinguin and I still didn't have any problems

>>382353848
WaW was the last remotely good CoD game with zombies

>ITT: retards
It's only for VAC games you stupid babyalarms

>>382327534
Every single game I've bought from g2a, hrk and cdkeys were all steam codes. I've never been asked for me steam id and had anything gifted or sent to me.

>>382356164
That's only true if they selling direct through their own storefront. If you buy through Steam, Humble, GoG, etc its a non issue.