Following tinyBuild’s outspoken condemnation of G2A and other keysellers last week, other developers have also taken to complaining about G2A’s shady practices.
Chief amongst these was Lex Decrauw, founder of RageSquid (creators of Action Henk), who asked his fans not to support key resellers.
“Just torrent my game instead of supporting shady resellers, I’ll even give you the download link.”
Speaking to PCGamesN Decrauw explained as to why he felt so strongly about keysellers and why he would prefer people to rather pirate his games:
We make games to entertain people – we want to see people play what we made and we want to see them have a good time.
That’s why we don’t mind if people pirate our game, especially if the alternative is that they would never play the game at all.
We believe that piracy isn’t all bad. If someone pirated the game, likes it and tells their friends “this game is great, you should try it!”, those friends who might’ve never heard of the game might play it and perhaps even buy it, that’s good enough for us,” he added.
We prefer that a gamer pirates the game as opposed to paying G2A for a key because we feel that G2A and similar market places are facilitating a black market economy as explained in the TinyBuild article that started this discussion.
You can read more about tinyBuild’s accusations against G2A here.
Have you used keyselling sites like G2A before? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.
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While I empathise with the devs not all keys are stolen and second hand resales have been part and parcel of commercial activities for ages. It may be that some devs are hostile to a second hand or aftermarket something which is common in everything from books, to CDs to cars. In fact keys are more safe because they can be revoked while stolen CDs or other stock can’t.