What are your thoughts on steam key sites? have you even bought a key from sites like g2a? are they a scam or are they cool, also do you have a story to share about steam keys.

i was planning on getting a mystery pack from g2a or whatever its called but im not sure if its a scam or not.

  • Tanoh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes, look at this blog post from Factorio team, it is a few years old by now but still valid

    https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-303

    They start talking about G2A about half way through the post. Basically they much rather see you pirate the game than buy it through G2A

    • Harpuajim@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.