I've been utterly lambasted for likening kinguin with G2A in the past. Like really? Their arguments literally fall apart with a small amount of scrutiny, but thet chalk it up to "they say they aren't like other resellers so they aren't" FFS you literally cannot prove that and that's my point. And that's why you DO NOT TRUST THESE SITES.

It's really fucking common in YouTube comments specifically. Especially with youtubers who have been sponsored by these sites in the past.

I have literally unsubbed from youtubers that have advertised these stinkers, the problem is when the likes of MrBeast starts advertising it, people start to think that it's ok.

[–] MYCOOLNEJM@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I have bought some games from resellers. I know they're bad, but sometimes I just really want to play that game online and the price is outrageous (a.k.a. I don't have the money at that time). Or in other cases I have bought an original game from steam, but the dlc's I want are not worth the money they're asking, which leads to me me using resellers again. For example I have bought cities skylines on steam, but most of it's dlc are from g2a, because they're selling the the game with 40% of it's functionality and other important shit is in overpriced dlc's

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, cdkeys.com doesn't allow third-party sellers and (supposedly) sources all their keys from verifiably legal sources, usually just region arbitrage. Considering they come into ownership of all the keys they sell, I'd think they lack all the "safe harbor" protections of the others.

Thing is, cdkeys.com is about the same price as the others. Which suggests to me that the "stolen keys" rate from those others is lower than some companies would have you believe. Remember, legal or not, the big label stance on all this is an extension of their stance on buying used, which is that they would rather you pirate something than support even a legitimate third-party or cross-regional market.