But people paid attention when Gearbox Software announced it would distribute the collector's edition of Bulletstorm: Full Clip through G2A, the controversial
key reseller often accused of ignoring fraud.
He accused G2A users of using a database of stolen credit cards to buy game keys in bulk from a bundle or third - party
key reseller, then putting them up on G2A to sell them at half the retail price.
Game
key reseller G2A announced that the company accepts new counter-measures in dealing with criminality.
The developers of the indie title, Acid Wizard Studio, have chosen to battle
key resellers by uploading their game as a free torrent on Piratebay.
Earlier this week, tinyBuild, an indie game development studio and publisher, revealed that
the key reselling site, G2A.COM, sold thousands of keys of their games without tinyBuild ever seeing a dime.
Key resellers seem to have a pretty reasonable business model at first glance: a person gets a key for a game they don't want or already have, and sells it on a key reselling website to make a few bucks and put the key in the pocket of someone who will use it.
The internet is not a kind place, though, and
key resellers provide an opportunity for fraudsters to easily cash out.
Earlier this week, tinyBuild, an indie game development studio and publisher, revealed that
the key reselling site, G2A.COM, sold -LSB-...]
While stolen credit cards are a large part of the problem, there are other places that
these key reselling merchants are finding keys: bots and scammers.
Alex's distrust of
key resellers is understandable, especially considering the response from G2A.
Publishers and developers lose, while scammers and sketchy
key resellers win.
They use stolen credit cards to purchase keys, like from Humble Bundle and even
key resellers, then turn around and resell them on the key reselling sites that are more lenient in their security.
We heard in May that Valve were revising Steam gifting — perhaps to frustrate
key resellers and marketplaces — and now devs will be able to send games directly to Curators, rather than using a key.
This doesn't seem to be intended to combat shady
key resellers, based on the image posted it looks like Valve is trying to combat devs that sell their game on Steam but then also sell keys on a 3rd party website at a cheaper price.
If you're curious about the world of
key resellers, this excellent long read over at Polygon dives into the issue.
The developers also advised everyone against getting the game from
any key reselling site, since doing so will encourage a frowned - upon practice in the gaming industry.
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So far, credit card frauds used the biggest
reselling platform to quickly dispose of stolen product
keys.
One indie developer claims a popular PC
key -
reselling website sold nearly half a million dollars» worth of its games - and didn't receive a penny in return.
Even if we did that and deactivated certain batches, each one of them will have a bunch of «legitimate» redemptions... I [also] believe [G2A would] just
resell those
keys and make more money off of it.
And while it's easy to cast a baleful glare at Ubisoft for its clunky customer service, it's not the only publisher with a policy of shooting down unauthorized
keys: The famously gamer - friendly Devolver Digital said in April 2014 that
keys for its games purchased through popular
reseller G2A «are not legitimate, not guaranteed, and not supported.
«We regularly deactivate
keys that were fraudulently obtained and
resold,» Community Manager xMiiSTY wrote.
The trouble began on Saturday, when an «expatriate Belgian in Poland» complained that a Far Cry 4 game
key he'd purchased from
reseller Kinguin had been deleted from his Uplay library without warning.
Contrary to what some may have been thinking (and doubtless, some still will) the recent kerfuffle about changing the way developers can request
keys for their own games is not about
reselling.
It's not against
resellers, it's against the one who generated the massive amount of
keys and how they're distributing it.
If you invalidate
keys in real time, most
keys will be invalidated before they are
resold.
I can't see how someone who sells 1000 copies on steam is going to sell 300K
keys in 3rd party
resellers.
There were developers who would sell a «bulk» amount of
keys at a set price (lower than steam) to one person and then that one person would
resell them privately via paypal - so the developer gets a sale they wouldn't have got, the middle man gets a small profit, and the user gets the game for a cheaper price
If you have not used the
key then you may be able to
resell it to recover some of the cost, in which case you could claim the difference between the resale value and the purchase price, plus court fees.
Everyone pretty much agrees that one of the
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But once
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As you may know, Humble is a
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