Kinguin, G2A, G2Play. How can they sell at lower prices than official resellers?

You could be right or wrong, but you are definitely a bigot.

generally they are just shops that sell keys for other ppl. If other person buys with stolen CC keys will get revoked - it sometimes happens, but most of the times they resell keys from cheaper regions. For example game XYZ costs 10$ in russia and 20$ in western countries. User ZYX buys 5 copies in russia, sell then on G2A for 15$, he earns 15$ profit, G2A earns 10$ profit, game devs loss 50$ profit. Ofc keys can also come from past promos, stolen boxed copies or wherever else.

It's not a money-laundering of stolen CCs (keys can get revoked) - but it's a shady business where you can never be sure the original source or if you will keep the game you bought.

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Well, it is still unclear who the owners of G2A are. It is registered in Poland, but that's as far as it goes.
So… money laundering as a half-legit online store could be a valid assumption, just as how many more theories could.

stop talking about this..or we can't have games at right prices. i wanna point on the fact that a Digital game CAN?T costs as much a physical copy...cuz digital costs to publisher way much less then doing Master gold,packaging, shipping...so why Steam and other official seller should charge us with prices higher then retail ? sry bad english

the right question should be : why Steam ,Uplay,Origin charge us for digital game higher then retail phisycal games?

Anyone can sell at G2A, I'm sure many sellers there just got keys as gift or off a trade and are trying to make a quick profit. The people with a lot of transactions are something quite suspicious though. Maybe they obtain keys for free in special promotions, but in the end anything we can think of here is pure speculation.

A lot of the keys are stolen keys that could be retracted later.

Just don't buy there.

They buy cheaper and sell more expensive, if you want to buy cheaper than their prices, and their prices are not really cheap if know about best deals in time, you have to visit forums, groups, etc to see where you can buy a game for cheap like in Nuuvem, Amazon, etc they even buy in sites like Russian GMG, or other cheap region sites, it after resell to you, and since most of the ppl don't visit forums to know about best deals in time, they just make profit from this ppl.

For example, tons of LEGO games where sold in Nuuvem for very cheap, so G2a or Kinguin sellers buy this games, and after resell them on this sites, and make considerable profit.

G2A == Ebay for steam keys.

Half of them are people buying cheap selling high, the other half "fell off the back of a truck".

Why did you feel the need to use the word "Faggot" in that context?

If I am wrong, please bring me a contract between Bethesda(random publisher) and Kinguin and I will apologize.
That's now how presenting evidence works. You made a statement, and thus you need to back it up. The burden of evidence is on you. That form of demand is just a way of covering your own back in case someone disagrees with you, it's something that you can try to lean back on when they question what you say.

Grey market keys can come from any number of sources. Due to the very nature of how a grey market works, you won't see a contact between a publisher and the reseller. They don't get their keys from the publisher, they get them from other sources. Sometimes those are copies bought with stolen credit cards (as seen in the Sniper Elite 3 or Natural Selection 2 cases), but often they are keys purchased from regions with lower prices or boxed copies that the reseller has been able to acquire at a lower than steam price. If my memory serves TB talks about it in this video (don't take my word for it though, I'm not about to re-watch it).

anyway..i never bought for g2p or kinguin..but that's because i wait bundles and sales...but that's becaouse release prices for digital games are way to high..there is 0 reason to buy on day 1 this days

Illuminati confirmed

I bought on g2a once and I'm pretty sure most of the games they sell are just users.

I personally find it quite risky to buy from such websites. The only game I bought from there was Deus Ex: Human Revolution vanilla because Director's Cut is the only game that you can get from Steam and it is buggy to death.

I stopped giving two piles of dung about what you wrote when I saw "faggot" in your post. Grow up, kid.

Try this

Oooorrrr they buy from other countries which aren't region locked and/or during huge discounts, and then sell at a markup and bam, profit.

I sell there. I don't use stolen credit cards, my prices are cheaper than market price. Just buy bundles and suddenly everything makes sense. Most of the codes for new releases sold there are from common people selling codes from their sponsors.

You're just trying to witch hunt. You statement is false for most of the keys being sold there.

faggots

Great going, bozo.

" faggots around the world which purchased illegal copies"
Really? Because i shop at kinguin im a faggot? (Not that there is anything wrong with being gay) But anyway blacklisted for being a bigot and an asshole.

Ok, not to be a bitch or anything but you're using definitions from fishy sources as, for example, the primary meaning of "literate" has nothing to do with "Violating prescribed standards of speech or writing" but with being unable to read or write at all.

Illiterate definition: Violating prescribed standards of speech or writing.
"ur" and "plx" are a violation of those standars as well as "deleting internet".

You'd be surprised how many online dictionaries are, for the lack of a better word, sh*t.
I'm guessing you're using Online Dictionary?
Defend yourself using your own words rather than trying to get all "official" by using online sources as it will often make you appear uneducated.
Trust me, I know what I'm talking about when it comes to online dictionaries :)
And again, I'm not trying to be a bitch here or a smart-ass or anything like that, I promise, I'm just saying this as you've used that several times in this discussion.

Also, if you're using Online Dict you could have easily checked for the meaning of word "faggot" and gotten "The terms faggot and fag are both used with disparaging intent and are perceived as highly insulting."
Yeah, I know how ridiculous it is for me to be using an Online Dict. as an example here after calling it sh*t but I'm trying to prove a point about the use of "faggot" and the community's reaction to it.
I believe you just used it as a general insult, something like "jackasses" or "asshats" but don't forget that this is the web and, as English is not your native tongue, you're threading dangerous waters when using insults from a culture you're not a part of.
Good for you for editing the main post and removing it <3

Lastly, look at the positive side of getting this reaction to your use of insulting terms-> this is SG and the community here is really friendly and committed to keeping this a good-vibes place for everyone so people who use insults get this reaction, which is amazing! <3

The comunity is really friendly? People blacklisted/insulted/flamed me for using a wrong word in a language which is not mine.
I know most of the people here are kind, otherwise we wouldn't do giveaways right? Friendly was the guy above which explained me why i was called bigot for example, other people just flamed and raged. I edited the post just to prove that this is a misunderstanding and there is no need for palandins of morality.

stolen credit cards
i saw a topic with missing games from gog, all bought from this scam site