it's not surprising that many gamers are constantly in search of a discount on
the titles they want lots of aaa titles cost around 60 us dollars at launch and
tend to stay that way for quite a long time after release and with digital
distribution being the norm these days it becomes very difficult to sell your
games later on after you've gotten tired of them and even if your taste in games
isn't big budget titles that require a big upfront cost you can easily spend
tons of money on dlc even after buying a cheaper game or you can just pay on both
ends easier as a result a number of grey
market online stores have popped up such as g2a and kinguin that offer digital
game keys from third party sellers at prices often far lower than you'd find
from traditional stores or directly from the developers but how do they keep
their prices so low and is buying from these places a good idea well these keys
can come from a variety of places g2a claims that many of the keys for sale on
their site come from wholesalers that buy them in bulk from game studios while
others are sold by folks who take advantage of promotions such as humble
bundles and giveaways then flip those codes for a profit
entrepreneurs however many codes are acquired by much less
ethical means it's not uncommon for
unscrupulous resellers to pose as game journalists or youtubers
rude and attempt to trick developers into giving out review codes or for them
to buy codes in one region of the world where a game is cheaper and resell them
to folks elsewhere denying the game studio a sale in that other location but
considering it's not that hard to steal a credit card number many keys are
simply purchased with a pilfered visa or mastercard and resold at a very low
price in fact earlier this year g2a promised that it would pay developers 10
times what they lost in credit card chargebacks for any stolen keys that
ended up on the g2a platform however g2a also downplayed how often
this actually occurred and while g2a said that they wanted to allow game
studios to block certain keys from being sold on the platform indie game
developers specifically wanted many of their games to be delisted from the site
entirely since they're more vulnerable to financial harm than the larger
developers but g2a refused to do this
and this problem isn't just specific to game keys many major online game stores
like steam no longer sell keys instead of signing a specific copy of the game
to the account that bought it again perhaps with a stolen credit card yet
it's still possible to transfer access to buyers who might not be aware that
they're buying a stolen game through gifting systems such as steam gifts and
regardless of whether it bothers you that you might be buying a stolen or
otherwise ill-gotten copy of a game you do run the risk of the game studios
deactivating your copy if you found out it wasn't legitimately obtained ubisoft
did exactly this back in 2015 to gamers who already bought and activated games
from reseller sites that were originally obtained with a stolen credit card the
move spurred outrage among gamers that didn't realize that they had bought a
stolen game and although ubisoft did ultimately restore access to players
that had already activated their games they didn't give any other recourse for
other resold keys doing the right thing
maybe not in the best way okay riley i
get it these game marketplaces are shady but how can i save money on games
without using them i i got kids to feed man well the good news is that sites
like is there any deal make it fairly easy to find out if a game you want is
on sale at a seller known to be legitimate at any given time and you
also have the option of buying game bundles at a significant discount there
are also game subscription services such as ea access and xbox game pass that
lets you play from a library of titles for a flat monthly fee and down the line
you may even have the option to legitimately purchase used digital games
from others earlier this year a french court ruled that consumers have the
right to sell their unwanted steam games assuming valve doesn't win their appeal
so hopefully buyer's remorse over digital games will soon become a thing
of the past in the meantime you might want to think twice before pre-ordering
that copy of dishwashing simulator 4
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