Devs: Better Pirate Games than Use G2A
Developers have just given us a written conscent. our games from the torrents instead of buying G2A keys - this is what Mike Rose from No More Robots and Rami Ismail from Vlambeer want the players to do.
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Apparently the end times are nigh, as video game developers are asking us for things that no one would expect. All this thanks to G2A, a popular website selling video game keys. Developers Mike Rose and Rami Ismail talked on Twitter about the company's practices and it's hard to ignore them.
Everything seems to indicate that it started with G2A buying ads (that cannot be disabled), which affected the positioning of results in Google. After entering Rose's game Descenders into the search engine, the promo offer of the G2A was displayed before the official game website. Such practices have an obvious impact on developers' revenues. So they made a request: instead of buying keys, our games from illegal sources. I'm serious. A shot in the knee? Not necessarily - this way the creators do not earn money from it, but neither does G2A.
It's not just about the money. Developers not only lose revenue from sales, they also waste time on servicing (dissatisfied) customers. As Rami Ismail says, if the game suddenly stops working or the key is out of date, players often their creators - not G2A. And it is from them that they expect things like refunds.
Other developers have also ed the boycott, including Mode 7 and Stray Bombay. According to them, despite previous declarations, G2A has not made any changes in its practices. The only group that can make a difference are the players.
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