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Prague-based Wube Software became the only developer to take G2A up on this limited-time offer to the gaming developer community in July 2019, after discovering that illegitimate keys to its construction and management simulation game Factorio had been sold online.
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They also stress the fact that if other game companies can prove that G2A has sold illegally obtained keys, they are free to contact G2A in order to look into compensation. G2A has also reiterated that they want to be clear that they understand that fraud can hurt independent studios, and that it hurts G2A as well, as they weren't directly responsible for the theft. The keys were sold by third-party sellers throughout the year of 2016.Īnd, just as promised, G2A paid out exactly ten times the amount that Wube Software had lost for those 198 keys- a grand total of $39,600. That led to G2A starting its own internal investigation, in which it discovered that they had indeed been unaware but responsible for the sale of 198 out of the 321 stolen keys from Wube. G2A then went through a process of looking for an auditor who could investigate further, but was unable to find one that would agree to both their and Wube's terms of being able to publicly disclose the results of the audit. The studio claimed that 321 keys had been stolen from them, and thus illegally sold through G2A's marketplace. In July of 2019, one game studio actually took G2A up on their promised offer: Wube Software, the team behind the indie game Factorio. The only caveat was that the developer would need to, through impartial investigation, prove that G2A sold stolen game codes, and that they had also been gotten as a result of fraudulent activity through the game owner's storefront. In an attempt to quell rumors of G2A being behind illegal chargebacks, the reseller made a promise: they would pay out ten times the amount of money that a developer had lost due to illegally stolen game keys. Throughout the past few years, criticism has risen regarding the method of how game key storefront G2A obtains its competitively-priced codes.
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