How does g2a even work? I've bought a few keys there before and they worked. I assume these keys were given to someone from like a promo or something then they just resell it?

[–] binboupan@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they buy keys using stolen credit cards and then resell them

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then the owner of the card issues a chargeback, so they lose more money (chargeback fees can be $25-$100) than if you'd have just torrented it.

Technically they could revoke the key as well, but that tends to cause a bit of fuss and bad PR so they don't often bother.

So the lesson is clear. Buy your keys on G2A with stolen credit cards.

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[–] Haraknos@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What about Instant Gaming ? Is it also a website that only resales keys or do they have some kind of partnership with game devs?

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[–] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

They could also stop with the nonsense and make a price a price.

If a $30 game is pretty much always $12 35 weeks of the year across various platforms, make it $12, because you've said that's your true price. Otherwise when I want to buy it and it's still $30 I will go to a reseller instead

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Eneba is selling pirated keys?

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