I usually wait for other people to create these news threads, but noone was doing it, so.. here you go:

G2A dared to do an AMA on Reddit and people obviously gave them s**t lol.

Kotaku article
PcGamer article (but they missed an update)

Reddit AMA full thread
<span class="bold">Reddit AMA best comment chain</span> (don't miss G2A's downvoted replies!)

Did you see this?
Comments? XD

Sadly truth is in my country G2A is selling steam keys on Amazon and major e-commerce websites.

I bought a Steam key at G2A and a few weeks later it was revoked because the key was obtained illegally by the seller. G2A had an option to offer you a refund in cases like this, but I just don't want to keep benefiting these criminals in any way. So that was the last time I bought from sites like this.

Yeah, I read the thread with Toradoki. Their behaviour has been pretty much consistent with all of their past scummy acts.

What I find absolutely bizarre is why they thought it was a good idea. Are they really that naive to believe the gaming community as a whole -- not to mention the numerous developers and consumers who've been screwed over by their abhorrent business practices -- would just forgive them with a few repeated reassurances that they do all they can to "protect customers"? (Even though upon closer reading, such reassurances are just empty, meaningless words that are simply thinly-veiled excuses for what they do.)

I haven't seen a company "ask for it" in such a blatant way since...well since Digital Homicide tried to sue users on Steam and subpoena Steam itself.

Seriously. What were they thinking?

This company also asks you to email them a picture of your driver's license before you can buy. Very shady.

Which is just asking for identiy theft.

The way I see it is G2A is a key market place that some criminals take advantage of but many/most of it's keys are legit. G2A can't police credit card fraudaulant purchases and it isn't doing the fraud itself. Is G2A doing enough to fight fraud? It's hard to say. People looking to sell their legit keys on is fair enough though.

EDIT their 'sheild' is shady though and I never buy it, when I have had a key retracted from a shady seller I got refunded without it. I've bought plenty on G2A without that ever happening.

Well they've got to get new keys somehow, you think they're going to pay for them themselves?

Glad I never used this site or similar to buy keys. I'd rather just wait for a sale or not buy. I really don't want to take on the risk, and I rather all my money go to the Publisher or Developer directly (yes, even if it's Ubi, EA or ActiBlizz.)

It's good that enough people aren't letting the cheap games blind them.

I don't understand why anyone would buy anything from G2A. Their prices are usually higher than 75%-80% off sales on steam directly. Why bother then risking anything with them?

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Sorry I was mistaken. I believe only sellers are required to give them photo ID (and other means of ID), supposedly for them to combat fraud.

Other third-party key stores like Instant Gaming and Kinguin are probably equally untrustworthy.

Because people want to buy a new, shiny game with a nice discount (probably along 40-50%) without having to wait months till Steam gets a similar discount. Sometimes, you don't care about the other 1000 games that are much cheaper/better; you just want the latest cool, big thing and you want it now.

Alternatively, you might have just missed a Steam sale on a game you want and are unwilling to wait any longer till it gets discounted again.

we have special departments in G2A (over 100 people) dedicated to protecting our marketplace

this is my fav :D

Yeah.. I'm struggling to see how G2A have 100 employees, certainly not in their anti fraud departments...

i actually want to work there now as this people must have the most chill job doing nothing all day :D