There’s a few reasons you might have heard of G2A, one of the Internet’s most popular spots to sell an extra Steam key. One, it’s been the subject of intense criticism for not doing enough about fraud ...

In context: To say G2A is a controversial figure in the PC gaming industry would be a dramatic understatement. The "gray" marketplace has made headlines time and time again for general misbehavior and ...

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Update March 2, 2017: TinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik was hosting a GDC panel last night, along with Digital River's Scott Davis and Scott Williams, co-Founder of Panopticon Laboratories Matthew Cook, ...

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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In July 2019, online games retailer G2A extended an offer to devs to open up its records to an independent auditor, and to reimburse the developers 10 ...

But Bain and Gearbox seem to concede the point that G2A has the right to provide a marketplace for reselling game keys. Instead, their list of ultimatums began with a demand about the G2A Shield ...

Last year, G2A—a supremely suspect grey market seller of PC games—offered to pay studios 10x the cost of their games if it was found to be selling stolen keys. Only one company took them up on the ...

G2A has agreed to compensate one developer whose game was fraudulently sold on the G2A marketplace. G2A is a marketplace where anyone could sell and buy game keys, mostly for PC games. The site came ...

In case anyone missed it, G2A just did a bogus AMA to attempt to polish their image. A user demonstrated that you can easily sell fraudulent keys during the AMA. G2A then promptly banned the user ...

Update 2: Tinybuild has matched G2A's "three day ultimatum" with one of its very own: "Provide a solution for developers and publishers to benefit from the marketplace." In another, possibly final, ...

After years of controversy, gray-market game key marketplace G2A has admitted to what it has long been accused of by angry game developers: profiting from the sale of illegitimate download keys—at ...