It's an open marketplace, every open marketplace in the world has fraud on it and G2A is no exception. Doesn't make it any less legitimate than other online marketplaces. But to address your three links, the first one is from 10 years ago which is before the G2A marketplace existed, the second features a developer (Mike Rose) whose game barely sold any copies on G2A as found during the 10x fraud challenge and the third is actually a legitimate claim that G2A paid out. However if 32k is the worst we can come up with that's pretty low comparative to the amount of business the site does.

If fraud is so much more prevalent than other marketplaces then why hasn't the EU opened an investigation?

No one is mocking them but they can certainly be ignored.

I'm talking about the developer quoted in the blog post that they posted in the comment I replied to. I don't understand why you're confused.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with buying a key on G2A but you're asking to get ripped if you buy some mystery pack. Just buy the specific game you're looking for if it's the cheapest deal. I buy a lot of my games on there because many times it's the best price but I've never purchased those mystery bundles.

It would just be nice if it was concentrated to one place but I guess I'll keep having to play wack a mole.

One indie dev that most people had ever heard of said this. I don't know why people need to spin this as "many".

that's pretty disappointing to hear. You'd think that they'd update the client to give it discord-like features since that's clearly what people want.

I ran a TS3 server for years that we used and it was fine. Didn't have the chat features we now have with discord but as a voip it was great.

I guess it was inevitable with the influx of reddit users (I'm admittedly one of the recent converts myself). I just wish it took longer than it did.

If you read the article it's nothing like that. This place is already turning into reddit and that's not good.

What principals? That we're selfish? I pirate shit all the time but it's not out of any sort of righteousness, I'd just rather get something for free than pay for it if the option is there.

So sad. Used it almost daily since 2011 and it worked perfectly. Best money I've ever spent on an app.