G2A Tries to Unethically Publish an Article on how G2A isn't Unethical in Recent Controversy with Indie Developers

The recent controversy started last week when G2A, the grey market purveyor of game keys, was condemed by Indie developers who say the site is killing small publishers, often by selling fake keys that get charged back.

Mike Rose, of Indie developer No more Robots, has been vehement in his protest of what G2A has been doing.

The situation has been so bad that he would actually prefer if gamers torrent their games instead of buying them off sites like G2A.  A change.org petition was also set up last Friday to request G2A stop reselling indie titles.  The petition states that since indie titles only make up 8% of G2A's revenue, it would hardly make a dent to G2A but would save many indie developers.

It gets interesting when G2A goes on the offensive and get their sponsored streamers to read out statements expalining why G2A isnt that bad guy.  Then to top it off, one of G2A's empolyees tries to convince media sites to publish an "unbiased" article on how "Selling stolen keys on gaming marketplaces is pretty much impossible".  But G2A wants to pretend they didn't write it themselves.

After the employees was outed on Twitter, G2A identified the employee as having gone rogue and promises a full investigation with "strict consequences".  So it seems the attempt at swaying public perception has instead rebounded into a public relations nightmare.

G2A's official stance on the issue is - some developers cannot accept the fact that people have full rights to re-sell the things they own.  It’s a problem for those developers, but not for us or anyone else. And certainly not for gamers who have access to cheaper products, games included, thanks to marketplaces such as G2A.