Vlambeer co-founder Rami Ismail agreed, adding: "These sites cost us so much potential dev time in customer service, investigating fake key requests, figuring out credit card chargebacks, and more."Īs the discourse escalated into a petition to stop G2A from allowing the sale of indie games, the marketplace responded with its 10x chargeback offer in an attempt to address these concerns. The debate over the site was triggered by No More Robots founder Mike Rose, who claimed it was better for gamers to pirate titles than buy from G2A since "devs don't see a penny either way." The offer of 10x chargebacks followed the latest series of accusations against G2A from developers, who take issue with their codes being sold via its marketplace. The tenfold settlement will be based on the 198 keys found to be sold through G2A, making for a final payment of $39,600 to Wube Software, which the company tells us it has received. understands from Wube that each order was approximately $20, putting the potential chargeback fees for the 321 keys at $6,420 - slightly lower than the $6,600 Wube initially estimated last summer. The 321 keys were sold between March and June 2016. According to the press release, "both parties assumed that the remaining 123 illegitimate keys were sold via other marketplaces or online stores." The two companies have worked together on an internal audit and found that 198 of the 321 codes Wube queried were sold through G2A. Wube Software, the Czech-based indie behind management title Factorio, responded to G2A's offer back in July 2019. Online games marketplace G2A has reached a settlement with the first - and so far only - developer to take up its offer of paying ten times the chargeback fees for any illegally obtained game keys sold through its site.
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