Is G2A a meme or is it a good way to get cheaper games? cause I ain't paying $80 for a video game.
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Is G2A a meme or is it a good way to get cheaper games? cause I ain't paying $80 for a video game.
I bought like 10 games and it all worked
Usually stolen or illegally obtained game keys. Buy at your own risk.
If you're not gonna be a moralgay then just pirate. Why get the worst of both worlds?
Persona 3 Reloaded is not cracked and that empress b***h hates JRPGS she hasn't even cracked Royal yet
Bro your 5.05 ps4
>Persona 3 Reloaded
On Goypass
>Royal
On Yuzu
people keep bringing up gamepass as a way to get games as if we actually would ever own a fricking xbox. if a guy isn't willing to shell out full price for a game why would he buy a worse pc?
gamepass is on PC moron
>dealing with emulators
if you're not poor, paying these bucks to get that native pc experience is easily worth it.
Norwegians cross the border to buy cheap beer.
Why can't I use russian cd-keys to get cheap games?
grey market sellers are largely a meme nowadays compared to how cheap they used to be back in the day
just go to isthereanydeal and check which store sells the game you're looking for the cheapest, then check grey market ones like cdkeys and instant gaming to see if its any cheaper just in case
ignore anything that tells you to pay extra dollar or two for protection or someshit
good way
>inb4 muh stolen games
more likely the vendor bought them at bulk when it was X% off
They use stolen credit cards and bank accounts to buy keys.
The credit card buys keys, card gets shut down, mastercard takes the hit and arent going to go chasing after keys for small thefts.
It costs less for them to just close the card than it does to go chasing after them.
it's that or they steal keys from game devs while using excusing it with a "review"
steam curators are just a mask for key resellers to steal from indie game devs
There was a video on YouTube, I can't find it now but it was from an indie dev who bought a grey market key for his own game to find out where they were coming from. Turns out it's mostly just steam curators. A lot of them ask for keys for review purposes and because they had hundreds of thousands of followers he assumed they were legit but then they just flip the keys on kinguin.
>more likely the vendor bought them at bulk when it was X% off
most normies seem oblivious to the fact that shit goes on sale at all. I make a lot of fricking money on the side bulk buying switch games when they're on sale then waiting a month or two and reselling them for near full price again on amazon. Just recently for example some first party nintendo title was on sale for $35, it almost never gets a sale so I bought around 50 copies of it and resold every copy for $59 a month later and pocketed over $1k side profit for a couple hours effort. I've made anywhere between $8 to $15k a year over the past 6 years doing this just with switch games and a couple hours of my time per month. I'm not autistic enough to do it full time over a broad range of platforms and genres but I can easily see someone making $100k++ per year doing it if they were dedicated, basically treating it as a full time job.
allkeyshops, it's like isthereanydeal but for the shady sites
its too fricking expensive nowdays
Been paying 1/10 price single player games for years now.
Where do they even get this shit? Are new games really under $5 on the distributor level in third-world countries?
they are selling the account, not the key
Offline sharing account from your favorite russkie. Is the next best thing now that piracy and cheap region pricing is dead.
>offline account
is it vac banned?
Never had an issue, I always got the games I bought on there. But be carefull to buy a game key, because sometime, they sell Steam account with the game in its library instead
Used them maybe 3 times and never regretted it. That said I don't trust them or their sources and I would advise anyone to avoid having to use their service unless you absolutely need that steam key for a delisted game for autisms sake. Trust me, $20 off a game is not worth the penalties that come with being caught in the web.
Sketchy key sites that many have a track record of buying keys with stolen credit cards. If you're lucky they are buying keys from regions that have lower prices for their keys. I would strongly advise against giving these people your credit card information. If you're going to purchase anything use a prepaid visa gift card. Honestly unless the game is multiplayer focused. Just pirate it.
G2A sell keys bought with stolen CCs. So I'd go to cdkeys or allkeyshop and check out all the sellers and their ratings
>bought with stolen CCs
And? Why should I care about some poor fool who had their card info stolen?
>Card is reported stolen
>Steam is notified
>Key bought with stolen card is traced to your account
>You now own nothing and are happy
Not my fault I would just tell them I bought the game from G2A.
Wouldn't save you.
Steam doesn't care if you buy a third party key and it gets reported as stolen because steam doesn't make money off key sales. When you buy a key off a reseller or an official store like greenman, fanatical or humble bundle you aren't putting money into valves pocket and arent a customer to them
Places like GMG through deals they have with publishers who have deals with Valve. Its allowed because it keeps people on the steam market place. That's a bit different from the grey market and their shady shit.
that doesn't save you. just like if you buy a real world stolen item without knowing it's stolen, you're still liable for trafficking and possessing stolen goods and will get fined/go to jail for it.
>he doesn't know
shiggy diggy
keep coping piggy
Well, right now you are knowing, sites like Fanatical, Humble Bundle, Green Man Gaming or Indie Gala, are the ones that sell games in a legitimate way
G2A, Eneba, Kinguin and similar, have never been linked to publishers or developers, they are resellers for a reason, so they get the keys from a third party
And for what you answered before, pic rel, happens if the key was obtained in a non-legitimate way, or you can have your account blocked if it was obtained with stolen cards
Answer is to not be a fricking moron. If a $70 game is being sold for $5 on release something is fishy. Also, potential buyers need to keep track of bundles out there. Especially stuff like Humble Choice as people sell their unwanted keys the moment those hit live.
buy from trusted sellers
Knowingly purchasing stolen goods is a crime
even unknowingly purchasing stolen goods is a crime
I love the zoomer FUD that always gets posted ITT. I have to imagine it could also be actual industry paid shills. Muh stolen credit cards, muh implicated in fraud, muh account bans. Doesn't happen. Ive been buying regularly off kinguin and g2a for 10 plus years never a single problem. But they aren't even that good of a deal anymore. Used to be incredibly cheap now its maybe 15 to 20% lower price. May as well just wait for a sale at the storefront most times now.
>it's fud to say indie gays will look at key reseller sites and track down the keys and deactivate them all
just pirate
It is, because its never happened
>inb4 this indieslop assetflip with 17 purchases in total example
>because its never happened
The whole pirating scene is held hostage by Denuvo and an Autistic troony.
didn't he gave up because ppls shat on starfield ?
>muh industry plants
the devs themselves will tell you to just fricking pirate the game instead, moron. But I know you zoomer homosexuals are too tech illiterate to do that so keep giving money to russian homosexuals instead.
It's fine, never had an issue with them. If you want the features of steam for a game but don't want to pay as much its the way to go, but most of the time steam sales are good enough. Can occasionally find indie or older games very cheap there which is cool. Also the only way to get delisted titles.
>bruh just pirate
If I can own it that's easier since I can redownload it at any point plus I get cheevos and updates anyway. Also easy access to it on my eck with cloud saves.
Same goes to creamapi, never had an issue with it and don't understand why you would shill for either piracy or steam when the middleground option of keysites and pirating DLC is better in some areas.
>If I can own it that's easier since I can redownload it at any point plus I get cheevos and updates anyway
fricking zoomers, i swear to god
isthereanydeal is the only go to site to look for legitimate deals
I prefer gg.deals myself.
Yeah, me too. They fricked the UI a bit a while aog, but it's still fine.
My go to is Allkeyshop
Didn't access it in a while, it seems they reworked the UI too. Unfortunately I don't think I can filter between official stores and keyshops and it doesn't have my region's currency. Clean UI though and bigger news spot, I like that.
You can toggle if you want only Official stores or official and keysites. It also lets you see the price adjusted with the fees regarding your payment method like VISA or paypal. Doesn't account for the bullshit fees they add at the end but only shitty sites like GAMVIO and Kinguin do that. CDKeys and IG never did
Oh, nice. I was only checking the homepage.
Perfectly fine, never had any issues with it.
I started using humblebundle because i realized the 20% discount on games from having a year+ subscription to choice isnt actually one time use. I used to use cdkeys but after they blew up during the pandemic they've been hiking up prices and people that haven't been using it for 8 years are none the wiser because they get their $70 game for $63 and some chage
Maybe have some self-control and stop buying AAA slop on day 1 when they barely work half the time. Game companies can survive on games priced at 40, 50, and 60 but dumb motherfrickers like you mean they don't have to.
I never had a problem with G2A but these days it's usually not any cheaper than CDKeys, which is more legit.
use gg dot deals to compare prices from other keyshops
not all keyshops are created equally, and g2a is pretty stinky compared to alternatives
G2A is consistently more expensive than countless websites that just have employees buy keys in a different region and sell to you. Not saying there can't be fraud there too, but it seems like there's no reason for there to be, when the best way to get a massive amount of keys to resell is just buy them from a different region, which is still a legitimate purchase.
G2A is more like an eBay of video game keys, except instead of just always having a money back guarantee, you have to pay extra for it at checkout, which is just another thing that makes the price worse.
I don't know why G2A is still in business. More expensive than the more legit competition. Maybe in some regions G2A is still cheaper? Definitely not in USD.
>I don't know why G2A is still in business.
Because, for a hot minute, G2A was advertised everywhere
Most gaming sites, a shitload of gayming youtubers and streamers, etc
The issue is that people just tend to stick by what they know, and "G2A can't possibly be a scam if they're advertising everywhere, riiiight???"
I bought a key from kenguin for 1/10th of the store price. It worked. pro tip : if you want a single game out of a new humblebundle then go to a key reseller to save money, he'll sell that game for a very nominal price.
It's a gamble because it's a marketplace
Check places like CDKeys who have their own trusted suppliers so generally you have less issues, they're also super generous with their refund policy whenever there's issues, from experience
Might still be stolen keys tho
Cdkeys is goat, been buying from there since forever and i never had any issues with their keys.
I've heard a few cases, but they were resolved
One time I pre-purchased a ESO edition that was meant to come with the newest DLC, on the ESO website it mentioned that I'd be able to just play the base game until the DLC released, so I assumed I'd get a key, activate it, and start playing. Turned out they only gave the on release. I asked for a refund because I'd rather wait, fully expecting being told to frick off, but they gave me the money within the hour and later on started adding warnings on pre-order pages saying you won't get the key until the actual game releases.
That shit was unbelievably based, not only refunded my dumbass despite having to obligation to, but they also realized they had an issue communicating that shit and started adding those warnings
G2A's service is utter dogshit compared to theirs
I fricking hate that hellsite
>buy a key for Gmod
>it works fine, whatever
>1 month later, get a 1 buck charge from them
>the frick?
>"Oh you subbed to our G2A Premium service! It's 1 buck a month and it does nothing!!"
>frick sake
>try to unsub
>"Oh noes!! Looks like you wanna unsub! Are you sure?"
>yes
>"Oh but this little cute squirrel is gonna be so sad..."
>I don't care, cancel
>"Look! We'll offer a 33% discount, please don't leave us!!"
> don't give a fricking shit, cancel
>"Ok fine, we'll send you an email between 8 pm and 8:20 pm, if you don't reply within that timeframe, you won't cancel the subscription"
>ffs fine
>wait for email
>get email at 8:19 pm
>by the time I click on the link, the session expires
>have to do it all over again
And that's when I switched to CDKeys, Instant Gaming and Eneba and they litterally worked every single fricking time with no issues
Kinguin has been serving me well the past ten or so years. Just recently bought Tekken 8 20 yuros cheaper than what it would've been on Steam
Never fricking using kinguin again after they asked for proof of address before giving me my key and after I've already paid for it. G2A a shit as well, cdkeys is the only somewhat trustworthy grey market reseller.
yea but cdkeys is a bit more expensive than the others.
>Never fricking using kinguin again after they asked for proof of address before giving me my key and after I've already paid for it
There was a website that asked me for my ID and I legit felt "offended as a customer" for the first time in my life
Those c**ts had the audacity to cuckold me out of my game key AFTER they accepted my money and not only that but ask for a fricking ID?????? Do people actually, unironically, send their ID's to these sites to get their fricking game keys??? AND NOT ONLY THAT BUT I KNEW PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT ASKED FOR IT AT ALL????
I think it was Instant Gaming, I actually felt disgusted, the fricking audacity
I don't remember where I got it, but I also had something like that happen. I issued a refund since I didn't see the key, but they decided to give me the code without checking my ID after I issued the refund.
>cdkeys is the only somewhat trustworthy grey market reseller.
They're towelheads from Dubai and no one knows where they get their keys from. I've had good experience with them in the past but they're only step above the likes of g2a.
only one step above*
hurr
>key reseller asking ID
how does this even happen ? some websites even have "purchase as guest" option where you don't even need to login.
Dunno, google Instant Gaming ask ID.
My only guess is for criminal shit or to stop bots from purchasing keys for other shops
I've bought multiple games from G2A, all from 100% reviewed key sellers, and I've never had an issue.
And you never will if you buy from sellers with good ratings.
The "Keys bought with Stolen CC" shit hasn't been relevant for a decade.
I dont get it, how is this supposed to be a better deal? Im buying shit for almost the same price, but with the added risk of getting my key nuked
saving $6-8 is not worth it. You deserve to get israelite'D
i actually gave several of those sites pictures of my id when i was younger and more stupid. nothing ever happened but it's still sketchy as frick and i'd never do it again.
I think it is "safe" to buy from them if you maintain opsec but whether keys themselves are legit or not is something of a gamble.