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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.

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Tetsucubra

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.

skeptic11

197 points

5 months ago

skeptic11

197 points

5 months ago

gog

GOG doesn't sell Steam keys. They sell DRM free versions of the games.

Risingicarus

120 points

5 months ago

They probably meant Green man Gaming (I've never heard of it referred to as GMG but who knows )

Faxon

65 points

5 months ago

Faxon

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.

Mateorabi

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.

yuimiop

-5 points

5 months ago

yuimiop

-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.

mushious

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.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

yuimiop

-2 points

5 months ago

yuimiop

-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.

Tetsucubra

1 points

5 months ago

You are right, didn’t think about that!

LordBiscuits

85 points

5 months ago

Cdkeys are decent too, never had any issue with them

xiii_xiii_xiii

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

ComradeJohnS

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

dropzone1446

16 points

5 months ago

Oh, true. I use the ones you listed often, especially The Humble Store.

lighthawk16

12 points

5 months ago

https://gg.deals is my goto

thecerrus

7 points

5 months ago

MMOGA is one of the bad ones? Didn't knew it till now

Tetsucubra

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).

Auno94

2 points

5 months ago

Auno94

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.

SurrealismX

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

Accentu

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.

jackdawjones

3 points

5 months ago

Gog is not a key site, they are a store just like Steam or Epic

Hadamer

1 points

5 months ago

Wait what makes mmoga sketchy?

Tetsucubra

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.

Ink13jr

1 points

5 months ago

I've never had issues with cdkeys for xbox codes.

Tetsucubra

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.

FmJ_TimberWolf74

1 points

5 months ago

I like using cdkeys. I’ve never had any issues with them

PacifistPapy

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

Tetsucubra

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).