G2A Really Legit Bundle incoming [Update: Deal #2 to start on 30th March]

It is one thing to support a shady company when it makes an actual attempt at going legit and abiding the usual market rules, and one thing supporting them thinking they are going legit but instead doing even shadier shit. This is why skeptics like me are confused now of what to think.

"Every day this week we will reveal one game that holds a spot on this month’s Deal. Visit every day to find out what awaits you in February G2A Deal.

And the games to wait for are…

• Lords of the Fallen (CI Games)
  • Dirt 3 (Codemasters)
  • Superhot (SUPERHOT Team)
  • Coming soon…"

If VM sold cars that were stolen then yes. Obviously it's more complicated than that, though.

Bad analogy. Volkswagen's deal is more like what CAPCOM or UbiSoft pull sometimes with their customers. Or, maybe a more understandable parallel: the diesel fiasco = No Man's Sky in video game terms. G2A = your local used car dealership. They may be actually telling the truth with selling decent barely-used vehicles, but you may also find a bullet hole in your purchased car and a police warrant against it.

There is a lot of hate towards g2a on the web and I think its partially the reason why.

There is no question that their business model is sketchy, but they are not alone as there are tons of grey market sites out there. They just happen to be more successful. Personally I don't care either way, if one chooses to risk buying keys in the grey market its their choice and I don't blame g2a for facilitating the means to do so, mainly because their platform can be (and I believe is) used for legitimate sales. I could open an account and start selling my extra keys there (instead of giving them away !) and there would be nothing shady on my part. In many ways I don't see how g2a could check to see if what is being sold is stolen or not, this is something that falls under the purview of other organizations. Since stolen keys can be revoked at any time, one would think that would not be a problem at the end of the day. The whole story with devolver digital is a peculiar one, and here is where g2a could become shady, as long as they didn't know those keys were stolen I don't see how it would be their fault, however the moment they were informed they should have had some means to deal with it. Its like blaming someone for reselling something they bought in a yard sale that they didn't know was stolen. At the end of the day you might still end up being responsible for the sale, but (in my opinion) ethically most people wont condemn you.

G2A has portrayed some shady practices in other areas as well - their g2a shield thingy has drawn ire from many, mostly because it tries to trick you into activating it and also because it makes you go through many hoops if you try to deactivate it.

I think with g2a the case is that that people who are unhappy with it are very vocal about it and people who are ok with it are usually not willing to admit it.

Personally I don't have a problem with the grey markets - I actually don't use them because the available bundles each month are so many that cover my needs, but I would not have a problem with it. As long as the keys are not stolen I don't have any problem with people selling them on g2a or anywhere else.

For me its very similar to the following : I have a Nintendo wii (this is years ago, though I still have it) and I wanted to buy a few extra controllers. I went to the store here (Greece) and the price was crazy per controller, so I didn't. After a few days I was browsing ebay and decided to search for used controllers, instead I found people selling new ones (unbranded) that were being sold at almost 1/10 of the retail price and I bought four of them. The controllers work perfectly and actually seem to be identical to the original ones, without the brand stamp (even though the place holder for the brand is there). Now, this could easily be classified as a grey market good, but for the end user (me) I think it was a good deal (with some risks involved of course), if being ok with transaction makes me a bad person then ok so be it.

I can understand people not supporting g2a but in my view the reality of the global internet market is such that these types of markets are here to stay and I don't think it should fall on the consumer to regulate or police them.

You don't even have to go that far back, just consider how many of our athletic wear are made in countries with near slave like working conditions or the use of child labor, personally those bother me more than g2a (except for knowingly allowing the sale of stolen goods that is).

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where u saw this ^?

Looks like this info is old ( 2016-10-27)

Nah, they actually list Superhot on reveal list for tomorrows bundle:

Apparently they've been revealing one a day for this week.

Also it won't be 1.5€, 2.5€ for single, 1.5€ in subscription.

Could be loss bait to get people do long time subs. Who knows.

"Every day this week we will reveal one game that holds a spot on this month’s Deal. Visit every day to find out what awaits you in February G2A Deal.

And the games to wait for are…

Lords of the Fallen (CI Games)
    Dirt 3 (Codemasters)
    Superhot (SUPERHOT Team)
    Coming soon…"

Yeah that really is kinda fishy.. they don't even have an account on G2A like some of the other devs do. Guess we will see as time passes by what the deal is with G2A.

You're closer to them then myself, I am curious about the answer because I didn't manage to get any information.

Any update?

if there are no hidden fees or any crap like that

just take one look at their previous shield subscription practices

Shame!

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"But hey, I ordered from them one time and I got the key so they must be 100% legit right?!?!?!?!??"