G2A Scammer Explains How He Profited Off Stolen Indie Game Keys

MangaGamer, a localizer of adult visual novels, wanted to reward customers who’d bought games through their website with free Steam keys. Two years into the promotion, a hacker allegedly used stolen credit cards to fraudulently buy hundreds of games. The scam cost MangaGamer tens of thousands of dollars. Why’d the hacker do it? To sell keys on the controversial marketplace G2A.

[ONESHOTV2]

i wonder why people are attacking G2A when it's not their problem some one steals another person's credit card and use it who is that fool to let someone use his card. i wonder why people are not attacking places like gamestop for selling used games come on people the devs are not making any money out of those used game sales but they do when someone buys a game from G2A. leave G2A as it is if your credit card is stolen and used report it to the bank that's not G2A problem i dont like to see people attacking a good service.

[superchiller]

They attack G2A because it's a shady site that causes big financial losses to game developers and publishers. Don't make excuses for them, they are shady and no one who cares about devs/pubs getting properly paid for the games should buy from G2A (or cdkeys, Kinguin, etc). And if you keep buying from these shady grey market sites, don't be surprised if game developers or publishers either stop offering keys, or go out of business completely. Look beyond your own self-centered desires, to the more important needs of the gaming community.

[Chinkyinc18]

TL;DR Free Market > Naive Devs

This is about shadiness, but not from G2A; this is about gaming publishers trying to rig a free market by trying to limit third-party resell sites. What I do with the key I bought from you is my own business. If I want to resell and undercut your price in the process for a quicker transaction, then so be it. It sucks, but they'll always be bad people who will take advantage of naivety and a legitimate resell platform. Notice that the only devs that ever get ripped off that are complaing about G2A are the small ones trying to UNDERCUT Steam by selling on their own platform? Then when they realize that undercutting Steam also means undercutting their market security, then they want to start complaining that it's G2A fault for giving them a platform to resell on, not their own for trying to go lone wolf. Do you ever hear of Steam keys getting ripped from stolen CC and ending up on G2A? Nope, because Steam has an excellent set of lawyers and a very secure means of selling and refunding keys. If anything, Steam loves G2A as it shows the importance of using a major market platform over a small-tier, self-operated one. Instead of complaining about G2A, these devs should learn from their mistakes and work together to improve their small market platforms; why work hard and learn from mistake, when you can whine and not have to be self-accountable.

[Grap]

great input, wow coherent comment in n4g never seen that before.