how much money the developer gets if you buy it off g2a/other shady cheap games sites: 0$
In fact developers could lose money (in addition to losing a legitimate sale) because of credit card chargebacks for fraud because those sites are often just laundering places for stolen payment information
I'm not sure I see how that would affect the developer. The charge back would be only to the reseller, wouldn't it?
and that is why i only buy AAA games off g2a. indie devs generally deserve my money still
At that point just pirate it unless you're trying to play a game online. Also if you were unaware g2a uses stolen credit cards among other morally dubious methods to get their game keys. You probably shouldn't be supporting that regardless of your reasoning.
just pirate them too. no reason to touch the garbage pile of shady resellers at all
the modern games equivalent to this is:
how much money the developer gets if you buy it off g2a/other shady cheap games sites: 0$
In fact developers could lose money (in addition to losing a legitimate sale) because of credit card chargebacks for fraud because those sites are often just laundering places for stolen payment information
I'm not sure I see how that would affect the developer. The charge back would be only to the reseller, wouldn't it?
and that is why i only buy AAA games off g2a. indie devs generally deserve my money still
At that point just pirate it unless you're trying to play a game online. Also if you were unaware g2a uses stolen credit cards among other morally dubious methods to get their game keys. You probably shouldn't be supporting that regardless of your reasoning.
just pirate them too. no reason to touch the garbage pile of shady resellers at all