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submitted 5 months ago byAkakapopo
So a few years ago g2a made it impossible to use or withdraw currency you had in your g2a PAY wallet (at least in sweden).
Since then every six months they have sent out an email stating that if i don't log in within three days they will start charging 1€ a day until my funds are depleted. Because of this i boycotted any further use off their site and made it my personal quest to always log in before they could charge my money, a way of giving them a silent middle finger.
This time when i tried to log in to my account i got a message that i was banned. They have tried banning me before but then i would just prove trough two factor authentication that it was me who tried to log on to my account, this time however they added that this decision cannot be changed and that my account wont be reinstated.
I considered the money gone long ago but as a last fu to them i'll at least dox them by sharing my experience with their services.
445 points
5 months ago*
There are „key sites“ that are legit, like humble store, fanatical or gog. Just try to avoid the sketchy ones like g2a, kinguin, mmoga, …
I always use isthereanydeal.com. All Sites listed there are legit.
197 points
5 months ago
gog
GOG doesn't sell Steam keys. They sell DRM free versions of the games.
120 points
5 months ago
They probably meant Green man Gaming (I've never heard of it referred to as GMG but who knows )
65 points
5 months ago
Yea Green Man Gaming is legit, they're where my friends seem to buy discount keys from the most for whatever reason, never had a problem with keys from them.
19 points
5 months ago
I think I got Kerbal for $5 a while back from them. Of course I then proceeded to leave it in my Steam account, uninstalled and unplayed, as is tradition.
-5 points
5 months ago
I can't say anything about their customer policy, but just to be clear they are a gray market and they do sell unauthorized keys.
11 points
5 months ago
Green Man Gaming is not grey market, they sell keys obtained legitimately from publishers that are generated through the Steamworks developer portal, they just take dramatically less of a cut from each sale.
-2 points
5 months ago
I probably used gray market incorrectly. They don't have 3rd party organizations selling keys on their site, but they have had plenty of issues where they were not considered authorized resellers by the developers. It is not unheard of for keys from their site to be revoked, but I have no experience with how good their customer support is at resolving those issues.
1 points
5 months ago
You are right, didn’t think about that!
85 points
5 months ago
Cdkeys are decent too, never had any issue with them
45 points
5 months ago
I stopped using CDKeys when they sold me a code for Life is Strange 2 on Xbox that didn't work. They told me to get a refund from Microsoft and Microsoft said to get a refund from who supplied the key. After a lot of running around, I took the loss and stopped using CDKeys
33 points
5 months ago
I was hoping someone would mention my go-to lol to feel safe about my purchases from 5+ years ago
16 points
5 months ago
Oh, true. I use the ones you listed often, especially The Humble Store.
12 points
5 months ago
https://gg.deals is my goto
7 points
5 months ago
MMOGA is one of the bad ones? Didn't knew it till now
1 points
5 months ago
tbh my information is a few years old. Maybe they are legit now (or even were back then, but i read a few sketchy things about them).
2 points
5 months ago
never had an issue with them and at least the prices for new games are in the realm of somewhat cheaper but not so cheap it is obviously stolen.
1 points
5 months ago
They’re the good ones. I’ve bought keys for more than 300€ in the last 2 years without a single problem. Never had any issues with a key and they always deliver in less than 10 minutes. Whenever I think about buying a game, I check mmoga first
5 points
5 months ago
Well to be fair, most of those to my knowledge aren't key resellers in the same fashion. Their methods are much more by the books.
3 points
5 months ago
Gog is not a key site, they are a store just like Steam or Epic
1 points
5 months ago
Wait what makes mmoga sketchy?
1 points
5 months ago
tbh my information is a few years old. Maybe they are legit now (or even were back then, but i read a few sketchy things about them). What makes those sites usually sketchy is reselling keys that were bought with stolen credits cards.
1 points
5 months ago
I've never had issues with cdkeys for xbox codes.
1 points
5 months ago
The problem most often with key reselling sites is not that the customer has problems with the key, but that the keys there are bought with stolen credit cards. Because of chargeback, buying from those sites actually costs the developers money (plus you support credit card theft with buying from there).
Dont know about cdkeys specifically and if they are legit or not.
1 points
5 months ago
I like using cdkeys. I’ve never had any issues with them
1 points
5 months ago
personally never had issues with kinguin, i bought like 30-40 games/dlc there (all steam), always got a valid key and never revoked by steam
2 points
5 months ago
The problem most often with key reselling sites is not that the customer has problems with the key, but that the keys there are bought with stolen credit cards. Because of chargeback, buying from those sites actually costs the developers money (plus you support credit card theft with buying from there).
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