We now hear from game developers that instead of buying keys from a grey (?) market site called G2A, we should just torrent their games altogether…

Mike Rose, the leader of a publisher called No More Robots, expressed his disgust how G2A is now using Google advertisements once again, going as far that if we looked for Descenders (which is published by No More Robots), the first result would be G2A‘s advertisement on Google. (Personally, for us, it’s not the case: looking for Descenders, our first result was the Steam page…) „We make zero money on our games if people buy through the ads. Please, if you’re going to buy a game from G2A, just pirate it instead. Genuinely. Devs don’t see a penny, either way, so we’re much rather G2A didn’t see money either.”, Rose wrote on Twitter, and he even included a video about how the G2A ad cannot be turned off. (Although the video is not from a PC but an Android device.) He later added the following: „Apparently G2A made a bunch of their sponsored streamers read out statements this weekend explaining why they’re not evil, thanks to these tweets, haha! Hopefully not too many people believed the shite they spewed”

Rose was backed by Rage Squid, the developers of Descenders: „Please torrent our games instead of buying them on G2A.” Vlambeer‘s Rami Ismail wrote something similar, too: „If you can’t afford or don’t want to buy our games full-price, please pirate them rather than buying them from a key reseller. These sites cost us so much potential dev time in customer service, investigating fake key requests, figuring out credit card chargebacks, and more.”

G2A became infamous for being a grey market: customers can buy keys that were bought in bulk from a cheaper territory, only to be sold in a more expensive market for profit, and the developers see no cut from either sale.

Source: Gamesindustry

In the latest episode of Fuck G2A:

G2A has taken out sponsored ads on Google, which mean that when you search for our games, you get G2A popping up above our own links — and we make zero money on our games if people buy through the ads.

And when you try to turn their ads off… pic.twitter.com/hSiIkaOLle

— Mike Rose (@RaveofRavendale) June 29, 2019

Apparently G2A made a bunch of their sponsored streamers read out statements this weekend explaining why they’re not evil, thanks to these tweets haha

Hopefully not too many people believed the shite they spewed

— Mike Rose (@RaveofRavendale) July 1, 2019

Please torrent our games instead of buying them on G2A https://t.co/gktACBP1KZ

— RageSquid (@RageSquid) June 29, 2019

If you can’t afford or don’t want to buy our games full-price, please pirate them rather than buying them from a key reseller. These sites cost us so much potential dev time in customer service, investigating fake key requests, figuring out credit card chargebacks, and more. https://t.co/25NWxrj8f8

— Rami Ismail (@tha_rami) June 30, 2019