Tag Archives: G2A

Over the last few years, many game publishers have been trying to find ways to combat grey market key-reselling for PC games. There have been numerous instances where mass numbers of game keys were deactivated after being fraudulently obtained and sold on certain stores. Now, Ubisoft is looking to implement …

Grey market key resellers have always proven divisive, coming under fire for their alleged role in depriving developers and publishers of sales. This is no longer a problem in Japan, as the country has opted to outright ban the resale of digital keys in their entirety. Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention …

Digital gaming marketplace G2A has faced a lot of scrutiny over the years, as it inadvertently enables the sale of grey market keys. Embracing further controversy, the website is now charging users an inactivity fee if they don’t log in within 180 days. A disgruntled user took to Reddit to …

Over the last few years, Valve has been making changes to Steam gifting and while some restrictions have been put into place over time, features of the gifting system have never been outright removed. That is changing this week, as Valve has decided to remove Gift via email and Gift …

Last week, Gearbox gave G2A a bit of an ultimatum, it asked that the shady key marketplace commit to several changes in an effort to be a fairer place for both game developers and customers. If G2A did not respond, Gearbox would pull out of its Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition …

Last week, Gearbox announced a partnership with G2A, bringing Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition to the key marketplace in an official capacity. This caused plenty of outcry and after seeking the help of YouTuber ‘TotalBiscuit', Gearbox instead decided to give G2A a list of demands to better protect customers and developers …

Earlier this week, it was announced that Gearbox would be partnering up with G2A for the launch of Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. This special edition partnership was unusual given G2A's reputation as a fraudulent key marketplace and ended up causing quite an uproar on social media. It turns out, Gearbox …

Since last summer, G2A has been working on improving its relationships with developers by launching services like G2A direct and giving studios the access required to ensure fraudulently obtained keys are taken down from the marketplace as quickly as possible.  It turns out the company's efforts to turn a new …

G2A is often the centre of plenty of controversy, the grey market key seller has been accused of plenty, from hurting indie developers to knowingly selling stolen keys. While G2A has made some steps to make itself more accessible to developers and clamp down on dodgy sellers, the company's reputation still …

Key sales website, G2A, is looking to change up the purpose and function of its Shield service. Initially designed as purely a form of insurance against bad keys, it is now being overhauled into a form of premium membership, complete with game bundles, better chat support and more features set …

The developers behind sci-fi colony builder, RimWorld, have been forced to stop giving out Steam keys to those buying directly from their own store as too many people are charging back or buying with fraudulent payment information. This sort of tactic is often used by thieves looking to bulk-buy keys in …

Over the last month, there has been a lot of criticism surrounding G2A and how it conducts business, all stemming from indie developer, Tiny Build speaking out about it in a lengthy blog post. Since then, G2A has announced several changes it is going to make to its system to …

It has been quite the week for G2A, who had something of a PR nightmare when indie developer TinyBuild put up a blog post criticising the company's business practises. However, it seems that G2A is willing to make some changes in order to be more developer friendly going forward, this …

This has been quite a week for the indie developer Tinybuild, after the studio's blog post on G2A's grey market practises spread widely across the web. This isn't the first time that sites like G2A have been called into question but in this case, Tinybuild lost out on $450,000 worth of …

TinyBuild, the publisher and developer of games like The Last Station and Speed Runners, has accused game key seller G2A of selling pirated keys for its latest title, Punch Club. G2A requested that TinyBuild send it examples of the pirated keys in question, but claims that the publisher never came …

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding grey market key sellers over the last couple of years and slowly, publishers have been trying to clamp down on the practise. One of the more reputable key sellers, Green Man Gaming, was accused of grey market practises this week, so in …

Earlier this week, Riot officially took a stance against the controversial, grey market key selling site G2A. The site was banned from sponsoring any more professional League of Legends teams and its logo was to be immediately removed from any merchandise or marketing material present at the up coming League …

Over the last year, key reselling sites like G2A have come under increased scrutiny. Despite their popularity, more often than not you don't actually know where your game code is coming from and plenty of people have ended up having games revoked from their libraries. Now League of Legends developer, …

There has been a lot of doubt surrounding the legitimacy of keys sold on the cheap at third-party marketplaces like G2A or Kinguin recently as more and more publishers wise up to fraudulent keys and begin to pull them from the accounts of those that paid for them. Bethesda is …

Yesterday, The Witcher 3 developer, CD Projekt Red, told the world that Green Man Gaming was getting its game codes from “unknown sources”. This new information shed some doubt over the legitimacy of GMG as a retailer and made it sound like it could be engaging in ‘grey market' practices, …

Last week, Ubisoft made the unpopular decision to deactivate a lot of CD Keys bought from sites like G2A and Kinguin. Apparently all of the keys being taken away were originally paid for with a stolen credit card. However, in a sudden turn of events, Ubisoft has begun reinstating some …

On Monday Ubisoft began revoking CD Keys for Far Cry 4 and Assassin's Creed Unity from Uplay accounts that were bought from resellers like G2A or Kinguin. At the time, the publisher stated that the keys were fraudulent but has since elaborated. Kinguin claimed that these keys were bought directly …

Ubisoft is cracking down on cheap CD keys bought from sites like G2A and Kinguin by revoking copies of Far Cry 4 from UPlay accounts. Ubisoft didn't give any warning or indication that it was planning to do this, most of this news comes in the way of angry forum and …

Valve has changed the rules for trading Steam gifts, which will supposedly put a stop or at least hurt businesses attempting to swiftly re-sell game keys as gifts. All new games purchased as a gift will be stored in the buyer's inventory for 30 days before it can sold or …

We are receiving a lot of reports from you guys telling us that Steam is currently revoking Sniper Elite III keys bought from sites like CDKeys and Kinguin. Valve has yet to offer an official explanation or statement but this could be a sign that the company is going to …