51nikopol: Thanks for this I appreciate it.
All these responses is the reason I never trade. I won the game and know I will never play it. Checked on steam and thought I could get something for it at the price of over forty bucks.
Pardon my ignorance but what is g2a?
wizisi2k: g2a is a shady 3rd party key reseller. Keys there are for the majority (if not all) bought with stolen credit cards. Keys get revoked after a period of time in 99% of the cases. Look at keyradar.com for legit resellers (or ones that are more reputable).
Majority fraudulent? Possibly, but I doubt it. 99% revocation rate? No. They wouldn't have any customers left if that were the case.
G2A is no more shady than any other reseller that allows random people to sell stuff they got from somewhere else (this includes brick-and-mortar pawn shops and the like). They're
all kinda shady; it's the nature of the business they're in. G2A has simply become the big dog in the 3rd-party vendor market for digital games, and thus get the most badmouthing. All such places at some point end up dealing in stolen goods (knowingly or unknowingly), and you either decide to deal with them anyway, or decide not to.
I wouldn't recommend that anyone patronize code resellers like G2A or Kinguin, but throwing around wild propaganda doesn't really help.