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I see G2A mentioned, but kind of wish they'd list okay but similar services or if they're shady as well. Are Green Man Gaming, Humble and things of that nature okay or are they hurting developers in some manner? I'm pretty sure GMG and Humble are selling keys akin to Walmart selling physical copies (just as a storefront working with vendors/publishers), but there's really no way of telling as a customer for sure.

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Humble is not a key re-selling store: The developers are the ones that make the choice to put their games there.

It's sad that there's no easy way to know.

Humble gets their keys from the developers. GMG, so far as I know, does, too.

G2A doesn't get them from the devs. They're a lot cheaper because the dev isn't setting the price. Whoever is obtaining the keys (illegally or otherwise) is setting the price there.

I look at it this way: If the price is too good to be true and you don't already know the site, it's probably not legit.

>I see G2A mentioned, but kind of wish they'd list okay but similar services or if they're shady as well.

No matter how non-shady any secondary market attempts to operate, the systems that would have to exist for them to actually reduce these problems would require business cooperation with the very companies that seek to kill the First Sale Doctrine through technical means.

Other similar services would be https://cdkeys.com, https://kinguin.net and https://gamivo.com.

They're all okay, but shady.

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