![]() If you’re curious how G2A and their whole scumminess works check out the screenshot below, which explains it nicely (thanks, DannyOnPC): G2A are thieves, please don't buy from them. Please torrent our games instead of buying them on G2A These sites cost us so much potential dev time in customer service, investigating fake key requests, figuring out credit card chargebacks, and more. If you can't afford or don't want to buy our games full-price, please pirate them rather than buying them from a key reseller. Please, if you’re going to buy a game from G2A, just pirate it instead! Genuinely!ĭevs don’t see a penny either way, so we’d much rather G2A didn’t see money eitherĪs one can expect, multiple indie devs have chimed in against this practice and what’s more, they are even asking gamers to just pirate their games if they’re buying from G2A, crazy right? The rationale behind this is that regardless if you pirate their game or buy it from G2A, both means zero profits for the devs, but the former choice at least doesn’t add more coin into G2A’s pockets. Mike took to twitter early this morning to express his thoughts on G2A along with a demonstration on how the ad cannot be switched off (besides ad blockers). This G2A ad brouhaha has been brought to the forefront by indie publisher Mike Rose, who heads the No More Robots game studio. Note that developers DO NOT make any money (as in ZERO) on games people buy through the non-official sponsored ads. If someone searches for a specific game that the retailer sells, you will see their games for sale first ahead of the official game listings! While where you get your games is another story altogether, it seems the ethically questionable online retailer has made some rather interesting marketing moves, as it has now bought sponsored ads (which can’t be turned off for some reason) on Google. Do you buy games on G2A? If so, you might want to consider not doing that.
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