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G2A.COM Limited, formerly known as Go2Arena, is a global digital marketplace that specializes in reselling game keys. Its headquarters are in the Netherlands with offices in Poland and Hong Kong.
Why It Needs to Go2 Jail for Scamming
- The website openly allows the reselling of stolen Steam keys without giving any profit to the developers. The stolen key sales often cause more trouble for the developers. This has gotten so bad that some indie developers encouraged players to pirate games instead of purchasing from G2A.
- They admitted to selling stolen keys, but they played the victim card by pretending to act like they were unaware of this practice going on within the company, as well as stating how bad committing fraudulent acts is.
- There is no validation of game keys sold on G2A. As a result, anyone, even shady scammers, can sell fake keys for quick profits on the site!
- The store also blatantly encourages a practice that's illegal in several countries where game keys are deceptively sold with so-called "discounts" applied when they were sold at their discounted prices and never sold at the original displayed price.
- Not helping is that there's a similar practice that abuses currency differences in different countries. For example, you can buy a key for Anthem for US$1 in Uganda and then deliberately hyperinflate the price to US$60 before selling it to an unsuspecting G2A user in Russia, which is illegal in several countries!
- Some of the keys sold on G2A could either be purchased by stolen credit cards or generated by fake key generators.
- If a developer discovers that you are using a fake or stolen key from G2A, you'd be unable to activate it, as it'd be automatically deactivated and completely invalidating your G2A purchase.
- The company was openly caught removing sponsored Google ads in favor of shilling themselves by No More Robots founder and CEO Mike Rose.[1]
- To make matters worse, they deliberately rigged Google's ad-blocking setting so that it is impossible to block G2A's ads from your search results.
- The company also can't take criticism at all as they openly accuse Mike Rose on Facebook for "being a liar, not making contact with them and making up shit about them".
- Not only that, but they also accuse other indie developers of "gaining attention".
- G2A promises to pay developers 10 times the money they lost from illegitimate key sales in chargebacks, but only if they have proof of it happening. This means the company can freely reject proofs as "unconvincing" or just simply shrug them off whenever they feel like it.
- The company itself are liars, in an official statement made by the company shortly after a controversy, they claimed that they were working with Google to resolve the ad issue, but if you search for "Descenders" on Google, G2A's ads will still be on the top page.[2]
- It's also ridiculously easy to buy keys for one game in bulk using a single account before freely giving away said keys for free.
- The company is also unbelievably unintelligent, claiming that "around a million games are sold each month on G2A Marketplace. Statistically, only 8% of them are indie titles." This is not 100% true, according to Mike Rose, as these AAA games sell more due to their high prices, aggressive marketing, and release on almost every game platform.[3]
- On July 8, 2019, G2A sent emails to 10 media outlets, bribing them to say positive things about the company.[4] Not only that, they even openly encouraged the same media outlets to publish the sponsored content with absolutely zero disclosure (i.e. not marking the article as being sponsored or being marked as associated with G2A), which is also illegal in several countries. Shortly after, the company tried backtracking its statement by claiming that a rogue employee sent all of the emails to the 10 media outlets, which is absolutely rubbish.
- You need to provide your bank account information as part of signing up to G2A. This is completely unsafe due to the website's aforementioned lack of security, making you ridiculously easy bait for identity thieves.
- If you're inactive for at least six months straight, an inactivity fee of one Euro will be deducted from your G2A Pay wallet (or your credit card) for every month that you're not active.[5][6]
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References
- ↑ Rose, Mike. (@RaveofRavendale), Twitter, June 29 2019
- ↑ YongYea, G2A Tries to Pay Off Media To Publish Positive Article In Light of Controversy, Backfires Epically, YouTube, July 9 2019
- ↑ Rose, Mike. (@RaveofRavendale), Twitter, July 5 2019
- ↑ G2A Employee Tries and Fails to Bribe Gaming News Sites, Screen Rant, July 9, 2019
- ↑ ninth_evolution, "Why the hell am I being charged for not logging in?", /r/assholedesign, Dec 20 2018
- ↑ G2A PAY Terms & Conditions paragraph 2. 20: "If User does not log in through the Website to User's account for over 180 (one hundred eighty) days, the Company is entitled to charge the User's G2A Balance a commission for EUR 1 (one) per each month, or less, if there is no sufficient funds on the User's G2A Balance to charge entire commission. The Company is also entitled to suspend the User's G2A Balance if there are no sufficient funds on it which allows to charge the said commission. Charged commission is not returnable. The User is to be informed about the commission before it is charged."
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