It’s an open marketplace, every open marketplace in the world has fraud on it and G2A is no exception. Doesn’t make it any less legitimate than other online marketplaces. But to address your three links, the first one is from 10 years ago which is before the G2A marketplace existed, the second features a developer (Mike Rose) whose game barely sold any copies on G2A as found during the 10x fraud challenge and the third is actually a legitimate claim that G2A paid out. However if 32k is the worst we can come up with that’s pretty low comparative to the amount of business the site does.

If fraud is so much more prevalent than other marketplaces then why hasn’t the EU opened an investigation?

No one is mocking them but they can certainly be ignored.

I’m talking about the developer quoted in the blog post that they posted in the comment I replied to. I don’t understand why you’re confused.

This is the same parroting I saw on Reddit and it’s not really based in reality. G2A is based in the Netherlands and therefore bound by EU law. If fraud was that rampant then there would be investigations out the ass. The reality is that there is fraud on G2A just like there is fraud on every single open marketplace on the internet and it’s not nearly as prevalent you’re making it out to be.

You’re confusing Wube and No More Robots. The “pirate our games rather than buying them from G2A” line in that blog post came from Mike Rose from No More Robots. It was ironic because almost no one purchased his game, let alone purchase it from G2A.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with buying a key on G2A but you’re asking to get ripped if you buy some mystery pack. Just buy the specific game you’re looking for if it’s the cheapest deal. I buy a lot of my games on there because many times it’s the best price but I’ve never purchased those mystery bundles.

Mike Rose talked about that specifically and it was nothing more than a PR stunt to sell games. When G2A had that “contest” to prove that stolen keys were sold on their site and they would pay you 10X what you lost we found out that G2A only sold 5 copies of Rose’s game on their site. Not 5 stolen copies, 5 sold copies total. Then other devs like that Charlie Cleveland clown said that stolen games were sold on G2A before G2A even existed.

One indie dev that most people had ever heard of said this. I don’t know why people need to spin this as “many”.

I used to say this same thing parroted over and over again on reddit when in reality it’s not even an issue. Every time you ask for examples they link the same incident that happened in like 2015 where some keys got stolen and sold on the site. It was a sliver of overall business they do yet redditors ran with it as if fraudulent key sales made up 50% of their business. It would be like saying Craigslist or Ebay aren’t legitimate sites because there can be stolen good found on them from time to time when that’s just the nature of an open marketplace.

that’s pretty disappointing to hear. You’d think that they’d update the client to give it discord-like features since that’s clearly what people want.

I ran a TS3 server for years that we used and it was fine. Didn’t have the chat features we now have with discord but as a voip it was great.

Maybe I’m old but I feel like Teamspeak would be the best alternative.

Accounts are not automatically being created.

I guess it was inevitable with the influx of reddit users (I’m admittedly one of the recent converts myself). I just wish it took longer than it did.

How about the fact that it needs a judge’s approval and that surveillance is restricted to very specific cases for a limited amount of time?

Did anyone actually read the article or did we all just head straight for the comments section after reading the headline?

If you read the article it’s nothing like that. This place is already turning into reddit and that’s not good.

Neither of those two examples are at all relevant to this platform and their entire section about Meta and the Fedverse is complete speculation. This community isn’t going anywhere even if they started acting hostile towards a decentralized platform as time went on. Having more communities on this platform is a net positive.

You’d rather have less people than more people on the platform?

Complicated and pointless. There’s no reason why you wouldn’t want more engagement.