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'You can go onto the site, you can ask them straight away.' 'So there's no flag there - a bigger flag would be if someone sold only one key.'įine, selling keys in large quantities is - in G2A's eyes - not enough to raise suspicion, but it's still not clear where those keys are coming from. 'Putting hundreds or thousands of keys on sale for one game is something most sellers are doing every day,' Kuc explains.

On the site's page for GTA V, he shows us sellers who have sold between 7,000 to 73,000 keys in the last twelve months (not all for Rockstar's title, mind you). The publisher's founder Mike Rose questioned why this wasn't an immediate red flag, but Kuc tells us sellers shifting large numbers of keys is actually commonplace on G2A. G2A's own screenshot of sellers offering keys for the No More Robots-published indie racer Descenders - intended to show how little impact these sales had on the game's performance - revealed that some users were selling more than 100 keys at a time. Keys for these titles are sold by the thousands, which raises the question most commonly leveled at G2A: where are those keys coming from? But we've changed in a big way'ĭespite the anger from the indie community, Kuc reminds us that G2A's top-selling games for the past five years have been Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Rocket League and Grand Theft Auto V respectively, with an abundance of other AAA games often dominating the site. 'We know we've made a tremendous number of mistakes in the past and of course we admit that. 'There's no place in a business like that for any kind of shadiness or fraud because this wouldn't work,' he adds.Įven if someone successfully makes it through this process, Kuc emphasises that G2A cannot prove where a product sold on its platform comes from, but is confident the vast majority are codes won in giveaways or bulk sales to distributors and resellers (more on that in a moment). Total sales for the past five years are now at 37 million, with the number of sellers at around 400,000. Over 90% of sales on G2A are made by large businesses, with one having sold 4.7 million products since the site started.

Herein lies one of Kuc's key points: this is far too much effort for your average user.

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We also had to upload images of a certificate of incorporation or business registration, a document confirming our identity, another confirming our address, and (optionally) a certificate of VAT - plus a bank statement and SWIFT or BIC code.

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went through the process and were asked for a business registration number, tax number, date of incorporation, plus verification for the identity of each person who would be selling through G2A via their driving licence, passport or ID card. But right now on our marketplace, if you want to become a seller, the procedure is so strict we can assure you we're perfectly aware of who our sellers are.' A few years ago, it was possible to sell something without providing personal data before cashing out. Where do they get this information from? Come to our website, become a seller, try to sell something. 'Lots of people say we don't verify sellers.

Right now, we have some of the best practices in the industry - we can easily compare to eBay. 'We're willing to explain everything because we know we've made a tremendous number of mistakes in the past and of course we admit that. 'We really want to talk,' says head of communications Maciej Kuc. On the one hand, a marketplace where players can resell their unwanted games is not inherently controversial - yet controversy dogs the company's every step.Īnimosity towards G2A has been building among publishers and developers for years, most recently resulting in a petition to stop the site from selling any indie games.Įach time the company responded - whether offering to repay ten times the amount developers lost on chargebacks or proposing to build a keyblocking tool - has been met with everything from apathy to derision and angry tweets of, 'You're missing the point.'Īllegations that G2A allows the sale of stolen game keys, or keys that have been purchased with a stolen credit card, or Steam Gift links that don't actually work, have seen the site widely dubbed a 'grey marketplace.' The company has previously insisted detractors simply don't understand its business model, and continues to assure how seriously it takes these accusations - yet confusion around it remains. G2A is often the centre of debate in the games industry.

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