Josh Ling @ Adopt Me!

You should buy all games from licensed retailers. It's more expensive, yes, because that's what the Devs decided the game costs. If you don't want to pay, wait for a sale or don't play it. If you're gonna buy resold keys might as well pirate tbh, same amount of money goes to devs

A resold key has been supplied from somewhere, so some money should have went to the dev. Also, nobody personally involved in making AAA titles chooses the RRP, and £50 is a lot of money, especially when AAA games are often some really bad PC ports.

This is a bad justification. Buying resold keys is immoral regardless of the size of the studio you're buying from. If the asking price is too much then you can't afford to play it, what you're doing is only slightly better than actual piracy

I agree that the price of £50 for games these days is quite low, but I don't think it's necessarily a bad justification. If a game company shows incredibly predatory marketing tactics (high starting price and heavy focus on overpriced microtransactions), then not buying directly

from them will ensure that they profit less while still being able to play their game. It's not nice, but neither are the marketing strats of said company. That said, I still wouldn't support G2A in that case.

You can justify it this way if you want, that's what a lot of pirates do. "This company is bad", "This company made enough money already" etc etc. People draw the line in different places but if you buy resold keys, you are contributing zero dollars to game development

Nobody is entitled to entertainment. It costs money to produce. Buy the media you consume from legitimate retailers

"You are contributing zero dollars to game development"... of that particular game/company and that exactly the intent. Also, if the game relies heavily on microtransactions, that's not even correct, as you'll still pay the company that way.