The classic "formula" for laundering money is that you buy a product with your dirty money (be that a stolen credit card, drug money, or perhaps even money that's evading tax), then sell it for either cash, or in this case just electronic money that cannot easily be linked to the original purchase. The reason I mention this is to explain that there can be a time delay on this code being traced to some illegal cash depending on the money being laundered.

If the code is linked to illegal money, then the clawback process will start. For example in the case of a credit card, the card owner would see a transaction they didn't make and complain to the card company. The credit card company will refund the owner of the card, then go after steam to get the money back off them. When that happens you can be damn sure steam will send that downstream and claw the game back off you. This kind of answers your other question of how they would find out, it's because someone would take that money back off them.

So in all of this, given that the criminals have got their cash and run off, there's a long game to see who gets left holding the baby, and everyone is geared up to make sure it's you. G2A will certainly have covered themselves in the T&C to make sure it's not them (so no refund) otherwise they wouldn't still be running.

Having said all this, one easy way to be sure that a key definitely is dodgy, is to see if the game has ever been on sale for less than the price of the key. If it hasn't then, barring the odd freebie someone might get along with a new graphics card, there's no way that person could legitimately be making money from that trade, and if there are hundreds of purchases from them, they either buy a lot of graphics cards, or are dodgy as hell.

Try looking up the definition of "egregious".

This is what happens when there's regional pricing of a digital content.

NO
What is the subject of this thread? What does it say in the title? What is the OP asking in the second question?

No I meant what I said! And that was/is clearly. (see above and even TinyE did not derail this time ;) ) And even it was not quite clear for you from the beginning, I did refer to posts above, right? Did those say something about GOG? What did they speak about?

offensive, not really, apologies accepted and also my apologies for misunderstanding you (but, you could have worded it better from the beginning, or? ;) )

tstststs, but before jumping to conclusions:
care to rephrase or ask in a more mature and respectful way myself instead of another person and creating hearsay? (which could put your post into a completely different perspective again, or?)

It was a misunderstanding, and he realizes it now.
It was a misunderstanding, and he realizes it now.

Hm...how should I address this...
Oh, right:
It was a misunderstanding, and he realizes it now.
Is that really necessary to escalate this into more than it needs to be?
The question's been answered, the misunderstanding's been sorted out, and that's that.

Escalating?

He asks me questions which I did answer right?
I did even suggest to him in a friendly way how he could have avoided it, right?
last point: Escalating? Are you NOW more reading into it as their is?

And your last sentence: If all misunderstandings were resolved he would have not asked questions, which I did address in a .

The game was Warhammer Quest (not the Deluxe version). I'd only ever heard about it when I joined Steam around 3 weeks ago, so I have no idea what kind of sales it's been offered at. There were several keys available at G2A from sellers, all under $2 a piece and with a high number of sales & positive ratings. The game offers so many IAPs....well, I guess they're "microtransactions" since it's a PC port of a mobile game....that I could see it having been on a ridiculous sale at some point. Maybe.

Even if I end up getting the game pulled at some point, at least I'll know (a) don't buy anything more expensive than a buck or two at G2A, and (b) I'll have played the game enough for that $1.95 or so I paid to know if I like it enough to buy it from a more trusted site.

I don't think you should use them just to get a game cheaper, the risk of being scammed is too high.

It can be useful if a game is banned/on the index in your country though.

This case is likely one of the keys either being in a bundle that the seller got as an individual key and doesn't want, or a freebie they got and don't want. The sellers aren't really making any profit (or nothing of significance).

The issue arises with things like The Witcher 3 shortly after release, where the game keys were bought with stolen credit cards and sold for something like 50% off - a deal that wasn't showing up anywhere else. That's a significant profit for the seller.
I'm reminded of Don Quixote for some reason...

....I'm just...gonna...stand on the side over here...
Don Zeoxote de la Puzzle, Inc.?

G2A.com is not reliable source for buying steam or gog keys.

You are better off buying on gog and the games not available on gog should be bought on steam or humble bundle.

In italian that means respectful O_o

e·gre·gious
əˈɡrējəs/
adjective
1.
outstandingly bad; shocking.
2.
remarkably good.


"English doesn't borrow from other languages. It chases them down dark alleys, beats them up, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar." - Some guy

Shiiiiiiiiit.

We had a perfectly good thread going and then a fucking game of Scrabble broke out! ;P

Well, what did you expect?
We have to find SOMEplace to put these 2 Gs and single A. I suspect we could make "grace" out of that pre-existing "race", but that really only makes use of one of the Gs...