"It's better for our game plows than you bought them through G2A" A surprising statement recently revealed by a number of indie developers. Based on the unwillingness of them to see the game distributed into the marketplace platform, many developers reportedly did not get a dime of profit from every sales transaction that was booked there. How did that happen?
Represented directly by Mike Rose as the publisher of No More Robot in the game about extreme cycling entitled Descenders, he accused many illegal game keys including the keys of homemade games sold on the G2A platform. The meaning of the term "illegal" here is that the game key is usually sold at super sloping prices, but the seller turns out to get the 'culakan' goods in a criminal way, such as breaking into the nominal number of credit cards owned by others as an action "Carding".
The developer itself seems to feel very disadvantaged due to their obligation to pay refund fees from gamers who are deceived by the carding item. And incidentally, G2A as the platform that appears most frequently on the search page and also found selling keys from its games officially became the target of the main anger of indie developers. In fact, they have tried to write a petition that prohibits the G2A platform from ever marketing indie games again.
What you should know, the G2A site is one type of marketplace site for products related to video games. It has functions such as shopee, tokopedia, or bukalapak platforms, you or anyone can sell game products that you want to sell, not even for game keys. So if things happen that are not desirable related to fraud cases, G2A certainly should not remain silent even though that might not be entirely their fault.
Fortunately, the G2A has now officially given a lengthy statement regarding their problems with indie developers. Many points really want to be elaborated and explained again. But most importantly, reportedly G2A wants to be transparent by hiring the auditor to check or audit all kinds of key transaction activities along with their origins from both parties. If it is proven that there is something illegal for the G2A camp, the G2A itself is willing to give developers a compensation fee of 10 times nominal. They will also be ready to bear the entire cost of renting the auditor in the first 3 checks. because at the next check they asked that the developer also participate in financing 50-50.
There, G2A also has a defense that there are not many sales of indie games, only about 8%. Especially for Descenders games, G2A informs that since May (the game's release month in full), there are only a number of 6 keys available in lapak with 1 that were successfully sold. G2A itself basically provides an "education" about how the usual distribution of key games is obtained. Where you can see the explanation simply through the video below.
Apart from how often gamers sell their games back at G2A, developers and publishers are also reported to have the option to market their games directly to G2A without the need to go through other intermediaries (G2A Direct). With the presence of G2A, they have a vision and goal so that the price of a game can be made as competitive as possible or in the sense of being cheaper for consumers.
Mike Rose as the developer has officially given a reply statement regarding the clarification of the length of G2A. Overall, he considers that what G2A discloses is very nonsense. Because according to him, indie game developers are very contradictory with the idea of distributing their games in sub-standard prices. Especially by entrusting the existence of platforms that are gray markets such as G2A and the like. Mike himself also admitted that he had never been told about the compensation costs of 10 times when he contacted G2A directly.
Regarding the number of Descenders game keys that were successfully sold, Mike was very suspicious of the number of provision of game keys that could be owned in large numbers and could even reach hundreds of only a few people.
Interestingly, he encountered this in the record of key provision that occurred since 2018, aka when the game Descenders is still in the Early Access stage. He remembers that at that time, the key was sold at a super tilted price, which was $ 13, inversely proportional to the price of $ 22 which is the cheapest price Mike can offer.
When urged that G2A stop marketing indie games on its stalls, the G2A itself was also warning the developers that the sellers they considered "mischievous" could move to another platform so that this solution would not solve the problem at all . Now, they are more willing to have the intention to compensate for the losses experienced by the indie developer if in fact there are a number of game keys that are truly marketed illegally by the seller.
