If you don’t know what the website G2A is. Then I fully recommend watching videos by video games showman Jim Sterling on YouTube. I will be trying to represent both sides of the argument in this article that Jim made so please bear with me here. G2A is a website for gamers where they can get steam codes either for games and now unfortunately loot boxes (I will talk about this issue to greater length in a different issue) all you need to know is loot boxes in videogames is like a manifest of pure malevolent cancer that should be purged from the industry as soon as possible. Anyway, when players have a key for a game or loot box they can re-sell it on the website for a reduced price. Which is the major appeal to most gamers buying stuff on the website. Sixty dollars in my opinion has always been a huge price tag for any game in particular. Now critics of this website are saying that the sellers of these keys might be selling these keys illegally because the sellers might have purchased these cards with stolen credit cards. Now there is no verification of the keys themselves whether they have been obtained like I said before stolen credit cards or other illicit means. Now the site historically has no protections or verifications to try and stop this thing from happening. An official article form PC Gamer back in 2016 states that the company TinyBuild claims that G2A sold $450,000 worth of its keys from their games without paying a penny toward the company.  For example: As this helpful commenter put on the PC Gamer website (Problem isn’t resale of legally bought keys but the sale of illegally bought ones.

The Problem isn’t when you buy a key on humble bundle and resell it on G2A but when you use a stolen credit card to do it, which many G2A sellers are doing. Key gets distributed but the developer’s account gets a charge back (they have to return stolen money). So, the thief gets the revenue from sale on G2A while developer has to pay for it.)

EXAMPLE: I steal a credit card. I buy 100 2$ humble bundles WITH A STOLEN CREDIT CARD. I now have STOLEN KEYS. I go to G2A and sell those STOLEN KEYS for $1. Person from whom I stole the credit card contacts his bank and requests HIS money back, money is charged back from DEVELOPER’S BANK ACCOUNT. Developer lost money and keys. G2A does not have ANY SYSTEM to protect against this so i now Laundered stolen (dirty) 200$ into clean 100$ that cannot be tracked. Now, you might be thinking, how does this hurt the developer? They only lost the keys, right? No, they may have spent some of it.) Again, a special thank you and shoutout to Milos Zivkovic for his amazing comment on the article with this phenomenal example! G2A is a website where you can get great deals on games, but run the risk of buying from money laundering thieves.