Hell, over the last few months I’ve easily gotten 20 to 30 games from G2A, if not more. Those looking for confirmation bias one way or the other may want to look elsewhere.įull disclosure, I’ve purchased keys from G2A before. It looks at both sides of the issue and lays out the truth as presented by the facts of the matter. It's not a scam, but it's also not an official retailer.Disclaimer: This article is not one sided. G2A works, however you need to use a lot more caution. The best use of G2A isn't to buy new games on the cheap, but rather, to pick up a game you missed on a sale, as the prices tend to reflect the recent low price-points. Compare the after-tax after-shield prices carefully, as sometimes it's worth just paying the little extra money to guarantee a legit copy from a normal retailer. You CAN get cheap games there, but you have to use three times as much caution than buying anywhere else. Unless you purchase the 'shield' option, submitting a ticket about a bad key is likely to be just completely ignored, whereas any reputable seller would moderate their own business like this for free. Even those that work can be later revoked, depending on your luck with each seller. G2A is not an outright scam, however they are not an official retailer and have a history of facilitating bad key transactions. In my own experience, trying to pay through paypal automatically tries to sign you up for a recurring monthly subscription of the 'shield' with an offer of the first month free, however if you want to cancel the subscription, they only allow you to do so in the last two days of the billing month, meaning you may accidentally forget and get charged anyway. If you look on youtube there are people who recorded purchasing packs of 10 of these so-called 'random' keys, only to find many duplicates, and a good number of the games were all free at some point. A shortlist that is made up entirely of games that were available for free, or from the lowest-tier of dollar bundles and the like. The name implies that they will give you a random key from their stock, however, they give you a random key from a shortlist. The "random keys" are in fact NOT random as they say. While the keys are sometimes from a legit source (some people simply buy keys by bulk during sales for the express purpose of reselling them to a profit on places like G2A), other times they are from a source that can be revoked outright (such as reselling keys expressly marked as not for resale). You are literally paying them to moderate the transactions on their own site. Without purchasing the 'shield', if the key you receive is a duplicate, incorrect or simply doesn't work for whatever reason, G2A will be quite happy to totally ignore your complaints. You have to manually select your taxation locale during checkout, and failure to do so can have your item revoked. While a game may initially be redeemed and work fine, there is always the chance for it to be later revoked if a seller was found to have used an illegal method of gathering the keys.Īlso consider that while their prices are cheap, those prices are without VAT and the 'shield' option. Whenever you buy from G2A you are taking a risk. There is a reason why their keys are often significantly cheaper than those found by any other actual retailer. G2A is not an official retailer, and as such, are prone to facilitating the sale of duplicate or illegal keys. I chose to be cautious, and that's the advice I'll give to the next one. On the other hand, disregarding what happened to all those poor fuckers before, and still recommending the service, that's a dick move. I do stupid and reckless things myself every once in awhile. Taking the risk with G2A, with your own money ? Sure, why not, if you think the prices are worth it, you're a grown-up after all. If not a first-hand one, my experience is the following : seeing a lot of people getting fucked by G2A, all of them getting angry and throwing a tantrum on Sniper Elite 3 Steam forums, threatening with lawsuits and whining and going all " hurr durr I buyed with moneh now my gaem is gone, your fault Rebellion". What makes you think I am not ? You jumped to " your bandwagin" so quickly. You might be speaking with first-hand experience. But instead of defending it with proper arguments, you resort to that shitty behavior. I think you have your very own opinion about the site - just like I have mine, just valid as mine. This is the same attitute as if I was saying you were a " paid shill". Why do you feel the need to attack me instead of my ideas ? Is that where we're at, how you've been taught to maintain a debate ?
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