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16 points

I do not understand why publishers don’t cancel the keys. Why do they allow that parasitic industry to exist? Surely they know which key corresponds to a chargeback?

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I don’t think the majority of those keys are from stolen credit cards. A lot of them are just purchased in countries where the game is extremely cheap then resold for a profit.

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12 points

Yeah the devs are still making their money. Just not the big first world money they want.

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14 points

The indie dev behind Factorio spoke out about the grey market resellers in their blog. They talked about G2A, where they had received a bunch of fraudulent purchases, and had to pay fines to the credit card processor for each chargeback… Effectively making reseller sales cost the developer money instead of earning it. Here’s the 4 blog posts talking about the issue.

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-171

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-303

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-304

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-348

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6 points

Ok. So. That doesn’t seem so bad to me.

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5 points

Nothing is ever bad as places like this make it out to be. Reddit had (probably still has) the same propensity for hysteria.

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14 points

It pushes the price of games up in countries where the median income is a small fraction of places like the US. So it either takes away the gaming experience or encourages piracy from people who would have loved to support the developers and enjoy the game that way.

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4 points

Apart from the other stuff about cross country reselling, cancelling them can bring a bad image to your company although it’s not even your fault.to begin with.

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1 point

I mean there a number of big publishers who don’t seem to give two fucks about their image if there’s profit in it…

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