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Games / Re: is g2a.com legit?

« on: July 28, 2015, 12:49:02 AM »

Right, I forgot you can't express an opinion on this forum without someone calling you mad.

With the exception of that previous post of course, which I can understand if it came off as angry. Which I realized immediately after posting, and is why I added that "disregard that." And the post after that would have ended after the quote if it weren't for the "loving twat" part

The summary here is that I don't like services like g2a because keys can be sourced from charity sales like Humble Bundle to be resold at huge markup rates, and I don't want to support people who abuse such charity sales. If I was mad, I'd be calling people terrible for doing so, but you'll notice I'm not doing that. OP asked for opinions on the site, so I told him my issue with it, other risks involved, and what to search on google if he wants to find out more. If he still wants to purchase from them, then so be it, but he has more information to decide off of then "yeah it's legit"

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Games / Re: is g2a.com legit?

« on: July 28, 2015, 12:28:28 AM »

maybe he wasnt replying to you, stop being a loving twat

right
see:

edit: or maybe you're just replying to OP without reading anyone else's replies. In that case, disregard this post

i mean damn you even quoted it right there

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Games / Re: is g2a.com legit?

« on: July 28, 2015, 12:17:08 AM »

never had a single problem

Wow, it's almost as if you're not reading anything I'm saying

I'm not questioning whether you get what you pay for. If you didn't receive your keys, then the site would have died long ago.

edit: or maybe you're just replying to OP without reading anyone else's replies. In that case, disregard this post

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: July 27, 2015, 07:14:55 PM »

I'd buy the stuff out of it if I wasn't saving moola for lenses. How's the shooting quality?

Oh, what are you saving for?


Also TBH, the D5000 is fairly outdated. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you already have a camera (I'm assuming you do if you're saving for lenses) then you most likely wouldn't gain much.

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Games / Re: is g2a.com legit?

« on: July 27, 2015, 02:25:09 PM »

calm down

I don't know why you think I'm angry
OP wants to know if this is legit, I'm telling him my reasons for saying no

I thought you couldn't get a steam key with humble bundles unless you payed $1 or more.

I don't know, but even if it's true there's still a lot of room to profit off of charity

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Games / Re: Splatoon

« on: July 27, 2015, 11:05:45 AM »

It's like that in real life, just like how you buy tons of alts when you get banned

You have a lot to learn if you think BLF reflects real life

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Games / Re: Splatoon

« on: July 27, 2015, 11:01:12 AM »

Being spoiled, and having a successful finance life are 2 different things.

His "i can do whatever i want, and if I get caught, I can buy my way out of it" type attitude is more characteristic of "being spoiled" than "being successful"
I pulled this stuff on another game and for banned for it. I didn't go "lol I'll buy another internet connection." I deserved it.

forget off.

Did you miss the last sentence
"Tinkering with hardware" and "running Linux" =/= cheating

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Games / Re: is g2a.com legit?

« on: July 27, 2015, 10:19:31 AM »

you're getting them from other retailers

I think you have retailer and reseller mixed up
A retailer would be something like steam saying "lol sell these keys for us even though we're perfectly capable of selling them ourselves on our own platform"
A reseller is someone who bought the key from a retailer during a sale and is reselling them for higher than they paid
Edit: now I'm just arguing words. I think I was going somewhere with that point, but I forgot where.

And I never had trouble with any purchase I have ever made.

I'm not questioning whether you get what you pay for. If you didn't receive your keys, then the site would have died long ago.
I'm questioning whether what you pay for is worth it. See the paragraphs above what you quoted for my thoughts on that.

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Off Topic / Re: Fast food stories: share your gross ass stories

« on: July 27, 2015, 09:51:19 AM »

I haven't had any bad experiences other than badly cooked food(just badly, like overcooked, not unsafe to eat) but you kinda expect that to some extent when you eat fast food lol

Best consistent example is McDonald's breakfast burritos. I used to love those when I was young and I'd get them whenever my dad would let me. But the tortillas were stale a lot on the edges, getting hard and dry

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Drama / Re: ID tribals... just stop -_-

« on: July 27, 2015, 09:45:32 AM »

IDs aren't races
The word you're (and half the people replying to this thread lol) looking for is "discrimination"

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Games / Re: is g2a.com legit?

« on: July 27, 2015, 09:33:13 AM »

It's legit. If you have G2A shield and the purchase gets revoked or something, youre covered. Ive used it plenty of times with 0 issues

Again, there's some subjectivity, and even a bit of a moral decision, to whether to call them "legit"
The keys are mostly bought during things like steam sales and then resold after the sale. Nothing wrong with that. But the keys could be sourced from places like humble bundle, buying a ton of copies for a penny each to resell them for several dollars more. Considering that humble bundle purchases go to charity, it isn't a business model I want to support. I'd rather support the charities and developers than some guy who paid them a penny

There's also the fact that CD keys are an allowed form of steam account recovery. So there's a risk (small, as long as the sales platform doesn't expose things like email or anything else identifying to the seller, But much greater if you're direct buyer to seller or if the sales platform doesn't cover email) that someone could sell you the key, then turn around to steam support and say "hey that's my account, see, here's my key"

If the key came from a stolen card, and the card owner disputes it, not only does the retailer have to refund that money, but also pay a chargeback fee, which ends up costing them more than you saved. And then there's also that risk of being banned if your key came from a stolen credit card

I can't find anything on their site, but some people in other threads about g2a are saying they'll sell region locked keys, then tell you to use vpn to activate them... which is a really big risk to your steam account, as it's against the tos and easily traced

Buying from unauthorized sellers is against the steam tos

All these risks may be a small minority among other 100% legit keys, but I'd rather just buy straight from the source and know I'm facing 0 risk and that all my money is going to the parties who deserve it. And if something does go wrong with these services, the time taken to fix it wouldn't be worth the couple $ I saved


Edit:

If you have G2A shield

Wait, you have to buy an extra service in order to have a guarantee that your purchase even works? That's kind of stuffty lol, that's something a good retailer is just going to give you implicitly with any purchase

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General Discussion / Re: Has anyone ever tried building Rivendell? -OP updated-

« on: July 26, 2015, 09:37:37 PM »

That would be lovey

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Off Topic / Re: Furry Megathread - Furry Things Here

« on: July 26, 2015, 07:46:42 PM »

For anyone currently watching me (and anyone who cares to, I mostly upload fursuit photos) I'm in the process of making a new FA, here http://www.furaffinity.net/user/kehmet/

dear god
rewatching 350+ people
the "thanks for watching" comments keep coming

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Off Topic / Re: Furry Megathread - Furry Things Here

« on: July 26, 2015, 04:37:50 PM »

Jalapeño

Are you going to burn my mouth

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Off Topic / Re: SJWs "fix" video game females by making them chubby

« on: July 26, 2015, 11:46:55 AM »

Why do I never hear anyone complain about all the hyper buff guys in media "setting an unrealistic expectation for males"