Is G2A.com a legal source for games and keys?

[Zoopy]

But when a dev company refuses to do regular patching/fixes or listens to their community no one bats an eye. The community who spent stupid money on the game trying to support said Indy dev company...

"Sometimes companies do bad things so that means I should support a den of thieves."

Really, you have no excuse in 2017. If you're unsure about a game you have a world of information at your fingertips- professional reviews, game streams, Let's Plays, user reviews. online discussions and so forth.

Rather just say you don't care about the ethical issues. I'd respect that more than making excuses for why you support a company that screws over everyone in the gaming industry, from gamers at the bottom of the rung, through indie developers and all the up to AAA publishers.

 

[Blu82]

But when a dev company refuses to do regular patching/fixes or listens to their community no one bats an eye. The community who spent stupid money on the game trying to support said Indy dev company...

I buy my games based on ratings, I don't pirate a game to try it out, if there is a game I want to try or play out of principle of supporting it, I will go through game stores or Steam, but if there is a game I want to try because it's an overhyped piece of nonsense, I buy a cheap key, play it for 4 or 5 hours and brush it aside, in a hope that the company who developed said game delivers on their promise...

Steam refund policy also works which is the industry supported way to demo games according to the Prey publisher.

 

[musha]

@Blu82 - I've been turned down my steam refund with 2hours of played time on Stardew Valley recently due to a ton of multiplayer connectivity issues. Steam told me that there have not been enough reported issues for this title to validate a refund...

@Zoopy - Honestly, your respect means nothing to me when it comes to my money I spend, but thank you for trying. It's easy these days to come up for a dev companies that screws everyone over, but when the little guy sticks it to the man, we are wrong? I'm sorry, but this is why people pirate games, the same reason, they overcharge us for a piece of software that they don't support or promise on delivery.

 

[chromedome]

Also bought from them, not the individual sellers, cheaper and no problems.

 

[Zoopy]

It's easy these days to come up for a dev companies that screws everyone over, but when the little guy sticks it to the man, we are wrong?

Because you're not sticking it to the man. You're sticking it to the entire gaming industry as a whole. G2A is harmful towards EVERYONE in the industry, not just specific developers.

Has tinyBuild ever done you harm? Because G2A has done them a ton of harm. And they continue to do harm to countless smaller indie developers every day that they exist. Indies have on multiple occasions asked that you rather pirate their games than support channels like G2A, that's how harmful G2A is to them. By buying from G2A, you're helping to enable them in harming the gaming industry. You're really not the downtrodden underdog you seem to think you are and you're far from being in the right.

If you really want to 'stick it to the man', pirate the games instead. Or literally steal them off the shelves at a shop, because even that is better than what G2A does. You can do with your money as you want and none of us can stop you, of course. But at least don't act like you're some unsung hero.

 

[ViciousClone]

I bought many times from G2A. No issues.

+1

Then again,never knew this is how they operate .. :/

 

[happyCoder]

Don't they have an insurance option or something.

You pay a $1 or something and then if your key does not work they give you a refund/new one. That alone sounds super dodgy. Why are you selling keys that might not work?

Edit: called g2a shield and it looks like it's a subscription now that they basically autosubscribe you to for 3 euros a month.

 

[Bryn]

Don't they have an insurance option or something.

You pay a $1 or something and then if your key does not work they give you a refund/new one. That alone sounds super dodgy. Why are you selling keys that might not work?

Edit: called g2a shield and it looks like it's a subscription now that they basically autosubscribe you to for 3 euros a month.

Yeah, I mentioned that in the post above yours. Also, their Shield service is incredibly difficult to cancel. You can only cancel it in the last 2 days before billing occurs again. And the number of steps involved is insane and entirely shameless.

G2A is dodgy as f**k. Every GOG code I've ever purchased from them (2 or 3) has been rescinded after a few days later by GOG. And I once bought an AVG code that stopped working. On all of the occasions above, I had G2A Shield and the process involved with getting a refund was bulls**t. The sellers always ask for a screenshot from the software company confirming the reason for the key being invalid, which they deliberately ask for knowing that none of the companies (Valve, GOG etc) allow their support staff to discuss such matters in any level of detail. So it's a long back and forth and you don't always get the G2A staff siding with you. Even when you do, it's a slow process.