Despite promises it was out of the business of reselling game activation keys, G2A is back in it, and it is also competing directly with key resellers in their own marketplace, on terms that penalize ...
G2A has been a controversial marketplace for the past several years. Some gamers love it because it offers games at affordable prices. Indie devs hate it because fraudulent keys and chargebacks force ...
G2A has developed a reputation somewhat of being a grey market key seller with lots of accusations that keys sold on the platform by sellers are often obtained through illegitimate means. These means ...
On Monday, game developer Charlie Cleveland, who founded Subnautica and Natural Selection publisher Unknown Worlds, told sketchy game reseller G2A that they owe him a fat chunk of money—$300,000 to be ...
Earlier this week, G2A once again came under fire from indie developers and publishers for selling stolen keys but insists this is not the case. The backlash was triggered by a tweet from Mike Rose, ...
MangaGamer, a localizer of adult visual novels, wanted to reward customers who’d bought games through their website with free Steam keys. Two years into the promotion, a hacker allegedly used stolen ...
Update 2: Tinybuild has matched G2A's "three day ultimatum" with one of its very own: "Provide a solution for developers and publishers to benefit from the marketplace." In another, possibly final, ...
A number of developers across the gaming space have taken issue with online retailer G2A over the years. There were many allegations that G2A had engaged in the resale of gaming keys attained through ...
[UPDATE: A G2A spokesperson has provided additional effort on the company's efforts to stop the selling of stolen keys. It is at the bottom of this post.] Over the years that the company has operated ...
GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In July 2019, online games retailer G2A extended an offer to devs to open up its records to an independent auditor, and to reimburse the developers 10 ...
Update March 2, 2017: TinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik was hosting a GDC panel last night, along with Digital River's Scott Davis and Scott Williams, co-Founder of Panopticon Laboratories Matthew Cook, ...