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Part of the problem is games are crazy expensive most of the time. A good example is It Still Wakes The Deep... 35$ for 2h of gameplay. No replay value. A 1 and done game. Some indie companies are asking for more than AAA companies when it come to value to gameplay

This is why companys should pric their products based on their value, not marketing Strategies... And if the product isnt selling, you stop making it...

This is why the credit card System is flawed - and it needs to be Banned! (and they should always revoke the Keys always)

06:00 It doesnt matter what you want to believe: it is the others opinion that matter. Like you thinking you have any say about choosing a pronoun: you can believe at whatever you want, but others that will decide how to call you and that will be reality, no matter if you disagree.

01:22 To devs, set your companies as a Brazilian ones (register it here, instead of your current country): it is illegal to charge merchants for chargeback, and actually if the credit card does that you simply open a court contest and you will get the double to the money back. In this example the company would be 900K from whoever charged the company 450K. Steam exists here in Brazil, so any problem will be under Brazil's legislations. Today Brazil currency is around one sixth of a dollar, so you can set the small office her with few employees as the HQ, but keep your studio in USA developing the game. It would be the equivalent of setting an account in Cayman Islands to send your money with low taxes.

Buying keys from keyshop is always correct .

Important to differianciate between Legal Key Sellers like Humble Bundle or GreenMan Gaming remember that if youre talking about Key Sellers and Key REsellers like Kinguin or G2A.

fuck AAA companies i will always buy from resellers those companies have nickel and dimed me over the years for less and less value. so i will pay what i think its worth and not give a fuck if they get a single cent. ill buy indi and smaller companies there money, but that's because they actually deliver games worth paying for cause they have passion for what they make and release not just some AAA cash grab

When I have learned enough to code, I'm gonna release my reviewer versions on special reviewer edition DVDs and not digitally,, and leave the digitals exclusive to Steam and maybe also a custom launcher as an alternative option. I hate the idea that a key reseller makes all the profits while an indie like me working with a budget of 2p and a ton of store brand canned foods earns nothing to go towards future projects, I'd rather people pirated mine than bought it from some scammer instead.

quick questiondo you think instant-gaming is grey like g2a because i tried to look it up buth reactions are mixed wanted to know your opinion or anybody who is reading this

what makes you think I wont buy a resell for ubisoft?

developing countries dont deserve anything so they are not important, we should sell more keys hahahahah game developers should get a real job

The only time i will ever go through a keyseller site is either one i want to play the game but dont want to support the devolper or publisher (could be bad people etc) or the game is 5-10 years old. Majority of the time i will wait for the game to go on sale and if its not a good enough sale i will wait for a better one.

Steam could resolve the issue quickly by simply revoking the keys paid for with chargedback credit cards

Piracy is the way to go. 100% free <3

Oh that's bad bad 💀

If I buy a stolen Ford F-150, and the police comes knocking on my door and take the car back, would Ford pay me my money? Clearly there is a larger issue than key resellers. Why do devs hold the blame for fradulently purchased products is the real question.

What's next? How Steam Sale screws everyone?

The nasty stuff is that my currency is not listed on Steam and somehow if I want to buy something I almost all the time go to sites like G2A or Humble to afford the game. The price difference for me is insane my currency is x5 lower than the euro or dollars for example. I prefer to use a secondary card with a few euros on it than to actually pirate the game. As others mentioned small studios = buy directly from the publisher or major official platform. Big greedy AAA corporation = Resellers can take my money in this situation. Peace :).

This must be ai content? Rightt??!

Careful buying keys for nintendo games, got one game and account got banned. Couldn't get a refund either.

as someone who lives in MeNa region i can agree that a 70$ steam game hurts alot and thats about 50% of minimum salary here it just makes no sense , thankfullu steam changed prices to Mena region but some devs didnt care and they kept their games at full price , i dont mind these greedy devs that makes half baked games then finish it with a paid DLC to get hurt to be honest

Well, too bad. I'll keep buying reseller keys or offline accounts for games that have Denuvo. Companies that use Denuvo can bankrupt for all I care lmao

2 Loot Boxes - $32!!! 24 Loot Boxes - $320!!! No one see any problems with that??

So a poor homeless person in the US has to pay 30$ for Facorio while an indian billionair gets the game for 8.16$. Seems hardly fair.

It is important to note, that game publishers can decide if they even want to distribute keys. If the publisher does not want to give out keys, they don't have to. I really don't understand how they keep on making a big deal out of key resellers stealing their keys, when they are literally in control of the keys.

Maybe Nintendo should stop charging full price for games nearly 20 years old

buying keys is must have in Russia. Most of companies blocked us from acessing stores. We literally have no choice

Well nothing new to buy in cheaper areas and resell them with profit. Only downside the potential that the key can be revoked just because they feel like it. As long nothing is stolen, I see it as their issue not mine.

Sad truth about darkwood. Played it fully and would love to see a sequel. But i pirated it i dont wanna justify my actions but the video kinda did

Pay over 200 euro for an almost 10 year old game devs still havent completely fixed cause they couldnt be bothered or pay 8 euro for the exact same game. Such a dilemma 😂 Eff this bootlicking corpo friendly nonsense

Not sure if I’m the only one but keeping the game on Pirate Bay might be not a solution. I just like a game to be on steam (all my games). Rather just keep the game for free on Steam or so cheap that it is not worth to get on G2A and then rather focus on microtransactions which are bound on your account and can’t be given to another player. What I wanna say is, there are a lot of games to crack for free, but I rather pay just to have it on Steam and to habe easy updates.

*every* transaction on the blockchain is public, that’s the whole point ; regardless of if you’re on an exchange or not You more or less said this, more it’s important (crazy) that people know (don’t know) the difference

YEah but I cannot buy Sony games on Steam. So I use G2A

Now I know that it does damage, you have encouraged me to buy keys for games from anticonsumer companies.

So you're telling me Piracy is neutral whilst buying from G2A hurts the developer so... I should buy Ubisoft and EA games through G2A

i enjoyed the video , i had no idea

I'll stop buying keys when publishers stop blocking me from giving them money

This is why I steal K cars, not car keys.

4:45 false, you cannot redeem a key for a game bought in india to other countries where the game is more expensive. The key can only be redeemed in india or a country with similar pricing. It is not possible to get a global key through this method

So the company that devs and customers pay by taking a share of every transaction is not really mentioned here: STEAM . It's the platform that let's me enable a game via key and is probably earning $ with this mechanic as well. No effort to prevent fraud from their side.

Is this video AI generated? The photo at 2:50 is riddled with AI character stop (STOAN GAME KEYS). I’m not rewarding this behavior with watch time. Get fucked

Resellers cause problems for everyone else while they profit handsomely? I'm shocked. Shocked, I say. Okay, not that shocked. Resellers are a cancer that are no better than scalpers.

Another consideration that I wuold make is that pirating a indie developer game is way worse than pirating one from a major developer. I really don't care about pirating Microsoft software (Windows, Office...) because they don't need my money, they're already filthy rich thanks to their near monopolistic position, but I wanted to give my money to McMullan and Refenes, for example, for their SuperMeatBoy, and wanted to pay for No Man Sky, when Hello managed to fix it, because I had quite a bit of fun with it. I can accept the practice of downloading a pirated version of a game, try the full version for a bunch of days, and then buy the game if you like it. It seems fair, expecially because demo versions are not always good, even when they're available.

Who cares about the devs, if they werent so fat lazy and greedy and maybe decent games rather than half baked copy paste games then people would be willing to pay. Im going to buy more games from key resellers after watching this. 😂😂😂

0:16 just get massgraves activation Powershell activation method its free and takes 10 secconds

It kinda looks like a lenovo laptop

This shit was the reasone steam changed Turkish lira pricing into direct dolar pricing. I hate how this caused a problem for countries like Argentina and Turkey which now buys nearly no games as even 10 dolar games are too expensive for most people. I remember in victoria 3 steam discussions an idiot saying "No worries , Turkish price is still less than other ones" or something along those lines. This was before dolar converstion. Most games had 600 percent price increases in idie games before this dolar conversion as they were selling with 1.5 liras to 3 liras per dolar (which was great) and they were losing a lot to resellers

Steam doesnt give my country regional pricing, when we literally have the same currency as the country next to us who does get regional pricing, and pays half of what we pay for games. Pirating all the way.

While most of the things said in this video are true, the main issue I see here is that no matter what happens to the key after it is bought, meaning, even if the key is never sold, the charge back will still apply to the developer once the credit card owner cancels his card/notify the bank. The problem here isn't the reseller, but the banking system failing to manage such cases in a way that isn't detrimental to it's user. In a similar case to illustrate my point, Pirate Software's Thor explained why he stopped using paypal to take donation, because the chargeback fees in case a transaction is cancelled are litterally threatening his business, as he would be charged more than the amount paid originally, essentially losing him money. If the banking systems didn't charge back the game studios, for reasons that they are completely unrelated to, or don't play any part in, the game studios wouldn't mind people buying keys on these website, as they wouldn't be losing money upstream. It would still make them no money, but they wouldn't run a deficit.