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Their reason is: people is using g2a for "discounted" keys.
Where the "discount" comes? Easy, some asshole buys from their website many keys with a stolen credit card, then they will need to refund it + pay an expensive fee for the chargeback.
I'm not a dev but at that point I would just give up selling keys by myself and I would just rely on steam for fraud detection. The only case where the 30% fee is justified
So, basically, G2A is a fence for stolen property? Why hasn't it been shut down by law enforcement?
Because only Factorio has been able to proove that is happening. That and they pretend they don't know that is happening as they are just the middle men.
Can you give the backstory of what happened with Factorio?
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-303
They lost $6600 in chargebacks and g2a was running an ad campaign using their name on Google
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/05/g2a-confirms-stolen-game-key-sales-pays-40000-to-factorio-devs/
I had a better link on my old Lemmy instance but that one went the way of the dodo and I can't find that in-depth explanation.
Basically Factorio never goes on sale. Ever, it only gets more expensive so, if someone is selling a key for a price lower than their starting price point it must have been fraudulent.