by Jalpha » Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:54 pm 
As if this wasn't bad enough already like some homeless man putting his finger inside my bum while I slept at home in my bed it got worse when I uncovered what was being done with the money these people had stolen. The money was being used to buy game keys which were then resold on a site called G2A. For those of you who don't know, this site acts as a go between for people who want to sell unwanted game keys and people who would like to buy them for less than the retail price. At a glance perhaps not such a bad thing, however the reality is that a large portion of these keys are acquired illegitimately and likely to be rendered useless by the game company they originate from.
This happens because people like me complain when their money is stolen. We make a lot of noise, go in to banks and fill out lots of paperwork. We threaten legal action and are more than willing to fork out for exorbitant legal costs over a matter of principal, even if we end up worse off financially at the end of the fiasco. So we get our money back, as we should, and as a result the games company traces the transactions and cancels the keys which were bought with the stolen money because they have had to return the cash to the legitimate owner.
The point of this post is to make you aware of what is actually going on at G2A and similar sites. Somebody will always lose in these situations. The games company may lose their money by leaving it too late to properly track the transactions and keys. They also fork out time and money tracking this bullshit instead of developing. The person who bought they key could lose if the transaction is tracked and the key is cancelled.
It's just crap, it's a garbage situation imho and the world would be a better place if people just stop using or supporting sites like G2A, who I am told have recently lost support from prominent streamers and youtubers, who no longer promote their company because of situations like this.
